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Founders building automation tools have a growing number of venture firms ready to listen. Some of the most active investors, like Greycroft and Salesforce Ventures, have each made over 800 investments and guided more than 150 companies to an exit.
Beyond these larger players, many other investors are searching for promising automation startups. We've identified the firms that founders should have on their radar.
Below is our list of the best 32 Automation VC firms.
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Buy It For $97 $297 →Base10 Partners backs founders automating the Real Economy, investing in companies like Notion, Figma, and Stripe that align purpose with profit. What sets them apart is the Advancement Initiative, a program that directs 50% of the fund's profits to underfunded colleges and universities to support student financial aid.
Basis Set Ventures backs early-stage enterprise companies using artificial intelligence to scale human potential. They focus on seed and Series A investments in scalable infrastructure, collaboration tools, automated workflows, and autonomous machines.
Bling Capital leads pre-seed and seed rounds for enterprise and consumer tech startups across sectors like SaaS and fintech. They are built around a singular mission: helping founders find product-market fit faster.
Playground Global provides early-stage funding to scientific and technical founders building deep tech companies in fields like next-gen compute, automation, and engineered biology. As an early, and often first, investor, they have helped launch businesses that benefit humanity, including Relativity Space, PsiQuantum, and MosaicML.
Greycroft backs technology companies across the internet and mobile sectors, supporting them from the seed stage through their growth phases. They draw on an extensive media and technology network to help founders build their companies, having backed well-known brands like Venmo, Shipt, and TheRealReal.
Atomico partners with European technology founders from the seed stage onward, helping them scale their disruptive companies on a global stage. Drawing on operational experience from tech giants like Skype and Google, the firm provides hands-on support for global expansion and has backed major successes including Supercell.
Angular Ventures is a specialist firm that invests in early-stage, enterprise companies founded on deep technology. They seek out founders with domain expertise and a global vision to build businesses in areas like AI, cybersecurity, and developer infrastructure.
Salesforce Ventures provides patient capital to enterprise software founders at every stage, from seed to growth. They offer privileged access to the Salesforce ecosystem and have guided portfolio companies like DocuSign and MongoDB to successful exits.
Almaz Capital helps build global businesses by connecting early-stage tech companies from Eastern Europe and former Soviet regions with the U.S. market. The firm invests in high-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cybersecurity to fuel this expansion.
Moneta Ventures provides the first institutional capital for early-stage enterprise technology startups, focusing on sectors like SaaS, AI, and cloud computing. The firm draws on its own startup experience to provide operational value and continues to back its portfolio companies, including TruckBook and ConverseNow, through later funding rounds.
The firms we highlighted are great, but they're not the only ones funding automation startups. The investors that follow have backed nearly 3,000 companies and seen more than 500 through to an exit.
You'll find firms from the US, Europe, and Asia, showing just how global this field has become. Here’s a look at the other venture capital firms funding what's next in automation.
| VC Firm | Country | Year Founded | Nº Investments | Nº Exits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2019 | 76 | 3 | |
| United Kingdom | 2013 | 129 | 16 | |
| United Kingdom | 2012 | 177 | 26 | |
| United States | 2005 | 762 | 126 | |
| United States | 2016 | 56 | 4 | |
| Finland | 2017 | 126 | 4 | |
| Spain | 2009 | 107 | 8 | |
| Sweden | 2017 | 59 | 2 | |
| United States | 2007 | 68 | 29 | |
| United States | 2016 | 40 | 5 | |
| South Korea | 1986 | 471 | 55 | |
| United States | 2011 | 104 | 40 | |
| France | 2015 | 84 | 6 | |
| United States | 2011 | 52 | 10 | |
| Cayman Islands | 2012 | 46 | 8 | |
| United States | 2012 | 60 | 3 | |
| United States | 2014 | 96 | 11 | |
| United States | 2016 | 51 | 8 | |
| United States | 2012 | 170 | 34 | |
| United States | 2011 | 320 | 110 | |
| United States | 1999 | 98 | 23 | |
| United States | 2016 | 54 | 2 |
