Mark Kendall
Micro VCs play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Pennsylvania Micro VCs. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Pennsylvania Micro VCs
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
BioAdvance
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
BioAdvance provides funding to life sciences startups and is a Pennsylvania-based venture capital firm.
Dorm Room Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, University Program
Investment Stage: Seed
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation
Birchmere Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Seed/early stage fund; >$200m AUM, 5 funds since 1996; portfolio market cap >$15b; offices in Pittsburgh and Palo Alto.
Brainchild Holdings
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Kal Vepuri’s personal investment vehicle.
MentorTech Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
MentorTech Ventures is a seed- and early-stage venture capital fund that invests in companies from the University of Pennsylvania ecosystem.
SeventySix Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
SeventySix Capital is at the epicenter of sports & tech, investing in smart and nice entrepreneurs who are building game changing startups.
Rittenhouse Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Rittenhouse Ventures invests in small rounds of capital-efficient Early-Growth stage companies primarily in Healthcare and Pharma IT.
SRI Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Early stage venture fund, operating in the US and India
Mountain State Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Mountain State Capital is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in early-stage companies.
Nextstage Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
NextStage Capital focuses on finding undiscovered early stage investment opportunities.
Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Government Office, Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Venture capital fund dedicated to economic development and job creation in the city of Pittsburgh
Originate Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Originate Ventures targets early stage product and services companies located in Pennsylvania and the surrounding regions.
Riverfront Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Riverfront Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early-stage investments.
Accelerator Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Accelerator Fund makes early stage investments in life sciences companies located in western Pennsylvania.
Select Capital Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Select Capital Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital and early stage investments.
Stockton & Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
Stockton & Partners, Meetings and Events is a full-service event planning, meeting management and destination management company.
Bucks Built
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Government Office, Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
SaaS, Consumer Products, E-Commerce, Hardware
Permit Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Permit Capital is an independent investment firm that invests domestically and internationally in public and private securities.
Breakwater Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Breakwater Ventures is a venture capital firm.
1931 Funding
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
1931 Funding provides short-term funding to small businesses to help them fund their growth.
Private Venture
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
High Risk High Returns
StartUp PHL
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
StartUp PHL is a collaborative effort between the City of Philadelphia Department of Commerce .
Schoffstall Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Schoffstall Ventures invests in innovative technologies backed by strong managements and business plans.
Alliance Capital Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Difficult to determine which Alliance Capital invested in A123Systems. Probably Alliance Capital Ventures, but unsure.
Viridian Biosciences
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Viridian is a biopharma incubator, founded to strengthen the link between scientific discovery and product commercialization.
KGI Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
KGI Partners is a provider of investments in the commercial vehicle sector.
Investment Circle of York
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Seed
The mission of ICY is to create a source of financial capital to help facilitate new business development and growth in the York County.
Aberdeen Japan Equity Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
Aberdeen Japan Equity Fund Inc., formerly The Japan Equity Fund, Inc., is a diversified, closed-end management investment company.
Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
The Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in Western
Carson Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Carson Ventures is a VC that focuses on vetting and investing in tech companies impacting the insurance industry.
West Virginia Growth Investment
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
West Virginia Growth Investment is formed to pool and invest the capital resources of investors in and around West Virginia.
S&B Holdings LLC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
S&B Holdings is a parent company with multiple subsidiaries which mainly Focus on Venture Capital Investments and IT Consulting solutions.
Harkins Venture Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Harkins Venture Advisors offers comprehensive advisory services to investment firms.
Robinson and Engler
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Robinson and Engler is a venture capital management company based in Pittsburgh. The partners, seasoned venture capitalists Steve Robinson
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