Backstage Capital

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S.

Mahway

Mahway is a venture builder that creates innovative, industry-changing, billion dollar businesses that improve the world.

west lane capital partners

West Lane Capital Partners is a private investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs and management teams to invest in lower middle-market companies. In addition to providing capital, we are actively engaged partners across the strategy, operations and finance functions within our portfolio businesses. We focus on control investments in the consumer, food & beverage, broader manufacturing and the financial and business services sectors and our experience allows us to invest in both successful growing businesses as well as more difficult and complex situations. We also know that every transaction is unique and we are focused on working with portfolio companies and their management teams to create specific investment structures that best meets everyone’s long term needs and objectives. West Lane Capital Partners is very focused on supporting the long-term strategic goals of our portfolio company management teams throughout the investment period and we look to align the interests of all partners in order to create long-term equity value in our companies. We implement management equity and bonus plans to ensure that management teams are rewarded for strong performance and that management teams share in value creation of the business.

Yes VC

Hello! We are Yes VC, comprised of partners Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström. We fund great companies at the Pre-Seed and Seed stages.

How Women Invest

How Women Invest is an early stage venture firm, and sister entity to How Women Lead, a professional network of over 14,000 women. We see that female founders are a force to be reckoned with and are part of an untapped venture capital landscape. We will invest in U.S. based, female-led and female-majority owned companies in most industry sectors. With 40% of companies founded by women, generating 26% greater returns, and yet only 2% of venture backing, How Women Invest focuses at the intersection of this opportunity to create ecosystem change. To learn more about the firm: www.howwomeninvest.com and info@howwomeninvest.com.