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Chloe Capital wants the meeting to end with a check
The venture firm pairs women and underrepresented tech founders with investors, then puts its own money into selected companies. From caregiver training to climate technology, its portfolio tests whether a wider search can uncover overlooked businesses.
Pareto Holdings puts its own money where the startups are
The company builder born in Miami runs on personal capital and an appetite for getting involved early. Its freedom comes with a very practical question: how much of tomorrow’s winner can it afford to keep?
Visible Hands Is Rewriting Who Gets to Be Early
The Boston pre-seed firm does more than write small checks. It builds a scouting system, support network and regional fellowship machine around founders the venture market routinely reaches too late.
ODF (On Deck Founders)
ODF (On Deck Founders) is a San Francisco-based founder fellowship that helps aspiring entrepreneurs go from idea to conviction. Its signature offering is an intense one-week in-person experience in SF where 80-100 pre-vetted builders meet potential co-founders, pressure-test ideas, and commit to starting a company - followed by lifelong access to an alumni community, mentorship, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in startup perks. Unlike a traditional accelerator, ODF takes no equity. More than 1,000 startups have launched through On Deck, collectively raising over $2 billion from investors including Sequoia, a16z, Khosla and Founders Fund.