HBSE Ventures is built around a useful wager: the best sports-tech investor may be the one that can turn teams, venues and fans into a living laboratory. Its portfolio shows how wide that laboratory has become.
LvlUp Ventures wants to be more than the name on a cap table. Its sprawling mix of small first checks, larger seed bets, accelerators and corporate partnerships is an attempt to turn a venture firm into operating infrastructure for founders.