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The following list highlights the top 10 venture capital investors of the ecommerce business space. These venture capitalists are not only making significant contributions to the growth of online commerce but also backing some truly game changing companies that have changed the face of the industry as we know it.
Top 10 Ecommerce Venture Capital Firms
1. Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.
Kleiner Perkins was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.
Website: www.kleinerperkins.com
Founded: 1972
Total fund size: $9.2B
Stage: Series A, Series B, Growth
Sector: Software, Applications, Hardware, Developer Tools, Health Care, Enterprise, Biotechnology
Ticket Size: $ 5M - $ 25M
Investment Geography: Agnostic (Global)
Kleiner Perkins's most notable exits include Google, Figma, and Ring.
2. Lerer Hippeau
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital firm founded and operated in New York City. Since 2010, we have invested in entrepreneurs with great ideas who aren’t afraid to do hard things. Our portfolio includes more than 350 leading enterprise and consumer businesses including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Allbirds, ZenBusiness, andThrive. We’re experienced operators who invest early and stay in our founders’ corners as they build iconic companies. Learn more at lererhippeau.com.
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Website: www.lererhippeau.com
Founded: 2010
Total fund size: $667.8M
Lerer Hippeau's most notable exits include Abra, Axios Media, and Warby Parker.
3. New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.
Website: www.nea.com
Founded: 1977
Total fund size: $19.9B
Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth
Sector: Applications, Developer Tools, Biotechnology, Health Care, Underrepresented, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Gaming, Marketplaces, Media and Entertainment, Fintech, Lifestyle and Wellness
Ticket Size: $ 1M - $ 150M
Investment Geography: Agnostic (Global)
New Enterprise Associates's most notable exits include Cloudflare, FiscalNote, and MongoDB.
4. DN Capital
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
Website: www.dncapital.com
Founded: 2000
Total fund size: $844M
Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth
Sector: Software, E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Ticket Size: Europe, North America
DN Capital's most notable exits include Remitly, Shift, and HomeToGo.
5. Act Venture Capital
Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.
We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internet and mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders.
The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.
Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.
Website: www.actventure.capital
Founded: 1994
Total fund size: €627M
Stage: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Sector: Deep Tech, Digital Health, Fintech, SaaS, B2B SaaS, Climate Tech, ESG, Technology
Ticket Size: $ 250K - $ 10M
Investment Geography: Europe, United Kingdom, United States
Act Venture Capital's most notable exits include SilverCloud Health, DecaWave, and TandemHR Solutions.
6. Kima Ventures
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.
The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors; backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.
Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.
Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
Website: www.kimaventures.com
Founded: 2010
Total fund size: €6.8M.
Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Sector: Agnostic, Enterprise, Software, Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Ticket Size: $ 50K - $ 300K
Investment Geography: Agnostic (Global)
Kima Ventures's most notable exits include Zenly, Wise, and Leanplum.
7. Lyra Ventures
Lyra Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing globally in companies that use innovative technology to reinvent the business of fashion and retail. Our investment focus is broadly defined, enabling us to invest in pioneering businesses across the fashion value chain including alternative materials, new retail models, brand concepts and SaaS businesses. We see ourselves as more than just a path to capital. With deep domain expertise within our team and network of advisors, our entrepreneurs gain access to knowledge accumulated from leading global fashion players and an extensive Asia network, especially in Japan and South East Asia. We back visionary and disciplined entrepreneurs whose companies have proven product-market fit and are ready to scale.
Website: www.lyra-ventures.com
Founded: 2020
Total fund size: $56M
Stage: Seed, Series A
Sector: Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion, SaaS, Social commerce
Investment Geography: Agnostic (Global), South East Asia, Europe, Israel, United States
8. GGV Capital
GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments across Consumer/New Retail, Social/Digital & Internet, Enterprise/Cloud, and Frontier Tech sectors.
The firm was founded in 2000 and manages $6.2 billion in capital across 13 funds.
Website: www.ggvc.com
Founded: 2000
Total fund size: $7.8B
Stage: Series A, Series B
Sector: Applications, Developer Tools, Consumer, Internet, Retail, SaaS, Advertising
Ticket Size: $ 5M - $ 25M
Investment Geography: Agnostic (Global)
GGV Capital's most notable exits include Animoca Brands, DraftKings, and Airbnb.
9. FJ Labs
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups. Their investments are seed and series A. The investment range of the company is $50,000 to $5,000,000. It invests in Alibaba Group, beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, ADORE ME, and earnest.
FJ Labs is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015by Fabrice Grinda.
Website: www.fjlabs.com
Founded: 2015
Total fund size: $5.5M
FJ Labs's most notable exits include Uber, FanDuel, and Semantix.
10. Greycroft
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets.
With offices in two of the most important business hubs in the world, New York and Los Angeles Greycroft uniquely positioned to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen us as their partners. The firm leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market, and build successful businesses.
Greycroft manages in excess of $1 billion and has made over 200 investments since its inception in leading companies including Acorns, App Annie, Bird, Botkeeper, Bright Health, Boxed, Braintree, Buddy Media, Everything But The House, Extreme Reach, Huffington Post, Icertis, JW Player, Maker Studios, Plated, Scopely, Shipt, TheRealReal, Thrive Market, Trunk Club, Venmo, WideOrbit, and Yeahka.
Website: www.greycroft.com
Founded: 2006
Total fund size: $2B
Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth
Sector: Applications, Media and Entertainment, IoT, Internet, Mobile, Fintech
Ticket Size: $ 4M - $ 15M
Investment Geography: Agnostic (Global)
Greycroft's most notable exits include Axios Media, Flashpoint, and Extreme Reach.
