200 SaaS Investors — 189 Currently Deploying

We are founders and operators who partner with early-stage founders building infrastructure and SaaS companies, leveraging our experience to help technical founders nail go-to-mark…

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…

Elevate Capital invests in underserved entrepreneurs—women, minorities, veterans, and those with limited regional access to capital—by providing venture capital and mentorship to h…

Bee Partners backs radical technical founders at inception (pre-product, pre-revenue) with conviction-first capital. They invest in AI supercycle futures, enterprise AI agents, har…

YC turns builders into formidable founders by providing structured mentorship, funding, and network access during a 12-week batch program. The program transforms early-stage teams …

Operator Collective is an early-stage B2B venture firm that connects founders to exceptional enterprise operators, believing companies succeed because of the people who build them.

Forum Ventures is a founder-first AI venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund committed to the entrepreneurial journey from zero to one, with a maniacal focus on becoming an …

Write the first check to builders who are still dreaming, tinkering, and exploring what they want to create. Work with founders pre-product, pre-traction, and often pre-idea.

Offer founders pursuing their life's work an alternative to the hype cycle by providing long-term thinking and supporting category-defining companies across all sectors that will l…

Lead and co-lead Series A and Seed rounds in companies with early signs of product-market fit, focusing on consumer technology and consumerization of enterprise technology.

Accelerating AI-native founders at the earliest stages. Lead early rounds in companies and founders building the future, providing that first check before others think you're onto …

Partner with visionary founders to build iconic B2B software companies. Early stage venture firm managed by former founders and operators investing in late seed through Series A.

Backing founders everywhere with $250k pre-seed investments, providing value-add support and community across 30 countries.

Invest in top-notch founders with global ambitions solving real problems using technology, providing essential resources and support for company growth through a partnership approa…

Europe's largest pre-seed fund focused on backing founders with conviction at the concept stage, tailoring support based on founder experience level (first-time vs repeat founders)…

Partner with bold technical founders from inception, before product or first check, backing AI-native infrastructure, security, apps, and models to build the autonomous enterprise.

Pre-seed venture fund leading investments in Intelligent Industry Solutions, focused on AI-led innovation that delivers radical productivity, industrial efficiency through percepti…

Jump Capital invests in early-stage founders solving problems in fintech, application software, and infrastructure software. The fund emphasizes being a true operational partner pr…

Early-stage venture capital firm investing in visionary founders building disruptive software businesses, offering full-stack partnership with operational support to help scale eff…

Empowering historically excluded founders with capital, mentorship, and networks to build scalable companies in Fintech, SaaS, AI, Logistics, and Healthcare, leveraging 25+ years o…

Early-stage VC for entrepreneurs building the next generation of European icons, partnering with founding teams at pre-seed and seed stages across thematic areas including fintech,…

Champion inspired and obsessive builders across seed stage, from enterprise SaaS to sustainability, health, hard tech, AI, infrastructure, consumer, and crypto. Provide guidance fr…

We back founders building things the world hasn't seen yet, at the moment before the world believes. We are a specialized and scaled seed fund designed to actually deliver with dee…

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.

Early-stage venture capital investing with intention, rooted in inclusion. Talent is evenly distributed but opportunity is not; lived experience is a competitive advantage, and the…

We partner with founders building pioneering AI-native companies before the category exists, leading pre-seed and seed rounds for AI-native companies before market consensus, backe…

Support audacious entrepreneurs building consumer technology that transforms how billions experience the world through connectivity, convenience, entertainment and empowerment, inv…

Avid accelerates the trajectory of exceptional founders by taking a hands-on and bespoke approach to scaling growth engines of transformative companies, helping early-stage startup…

NFX identifies and backs founders building companies with network effects. The fund emphasizes software development, founder support through content/tools, and emerging technologie…

Atomic functions as a co-founder replacement, providing serial entrepreneurs, specialist teams, and resources to de-risk company building and accelerate time to market while founde…

Backing outlier founders at the earliest stages.

Back select founders solving big, hard problems with long-term partnership, operational expertise, and decades of experience to help reach full potential.

Invest in emerging companies at the critical stage of development ('make or break point') between the coasts to launch them into hyper-growth through thematic research and operator…

Invest in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous founders creating influential businesses that will shape the future into a revolutionary world.

Technology-focused Pre-Seed fund backing founders who are different and unconventional.

First dedicated pre-seed fund in NYC that works with product-obsessed teams from day 0, emphasizing early-stage product development and founder support.

Active, full-stack partners backing founding teams at seed, early, and acceleration stages who turn improbable ideas into inevitable, transformational businesses.

Early stage B2B-focused venture firm specializing in building enterprise leaders through disruptive B2B AI software investments in enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, and rel…

Early-stage PropTech investor focused on technologies impacting people, processes, and ecosystems of the built world, partnering across real estate asset classes.

Investing in a future where people of color experience true agency and participation in the American economy through supporting entrepreneurs from overlooked communities.

Experienced founders (particularly serial/exit founders) win 22x more often. Zero-equity retreats attract elite repeat founders who avoid traditional accelerators, enabling first-m…

Early-stage investor in category-defining enterprise technology companies led by visionary entrepreneurs, with focus on applied AI, logistics and supply chain, vertical solutions, …

Invest from inception through seed in founders building across the Southeast, providing first checks before the deck is polished and before anyone else is paying attention. Focus o…

Bonfire backs founders reshaping how businesses operate as AI rewires every workflow. With two decades investing in business software, they lead seed rounds and commit deeply to a …

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

Seed-stage generalist investor supporting ambitious founders building enduring businesses across the United States, with focus on Software, Healthcare, Financial Services, Marketpl…

Partner with exceptional founders at the very inception of their entrepreneurial journey, focusing on pre-seed and seed stage investments with a data-driven approach across non-tra…

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…

Global Brain brings new industries to society through extensive hands-on support for startups and open innovation with large corporations, helping them scale globally.

A fund of 500+ Y Combinator alumni investing in and supporting top startups from Y Combinator, the world's top accelerator.

The first venture capital firm designed for a new era where work is more creative, life is more flexible, and founders can be 'triple threats' combining multiple skill sets and rev…

AI Fund is a venture studio that co-founds companies with entrepreneurs, venture funds, and corporate partners to build AI-powered startups that move humanity forward, from idea to…

Partnering with ambitious early-stage founders building category-defining companies across enterprise and consumer sectors.

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…

Provide seed and Series A capital with hands-on business building expertise to great founders outside Silicon Valley, proving that world-class companies can be built anywhere.

The product-market fit partner for technical enterprise founders, turning product-market fit from improbable to inevitable through proprietary playbook and methodology.

Glasswing invests in visionary, early-stage founders using AI and frontier technology to reinvent enterprise and security markets. They go first and go long with founders.

Techstars helps founders scale startups into world-changing businesses through a 3-month mentorship-driven accelerator program, capital investment, and access to a global network o…

Specialists in pre-seed and seed investing, founded by operators who have built and scaled companies. Provide hands-on support through recruiting, GTM coaching, fundraising assista…

Europe's leading early-stage business software investor, backing founders on the journey from $1M to $100M+ in revenue with deep software expertise across SaaS, Services as Softwar…

How many saas investors are actively deploying right now?

DryPowder tracks 200 saas funds. Of these, 189 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 saas VCs write?

Among 200 saas 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 saas VC?

A warm intro is still the fastest path. Most saas 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.

What do saas VCs look for beyond a good deck?

Most saas investors evaluate three things before reading your deck in detail: your background in the space, whether they have seen the problem from multiple portfolio companies, and whether anyone they trust vouches for you. After that, the deck needs to show market size, a clear problem-solution fit specific to saas, and early evidence of customer demand. Thesis alignment matters more in saas than in generalist investing because these funds see a high volume of pitches in the same space.

How many saas 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 189 saas 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 200 saas 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.