E-Commerce & Marketplaces Startups in California

Los Angeles, California

Event planning is fragmented across many tools and vendors leading to coordination issues, budget misalignment, and lack of transparency.

Menlo Park, CA

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm partnering with product-first entrepreneurs, focused on enterprise software companies in the US and digitally-powered businesses in India. The firm...

San Francisco, CA

Founded in 2010, AngelPad is a seed-stage accelerator based in San Francisco and New York. We select ~15 teams every 6 months and invest $120,000 in each company. We focus on early-stage startups...

Los Altos, CA

Data-driven early-stage VC that uses large startup datasets and ML to identify global winners; focuses on AI, SaaS, marketplaces, fintech, cloud, mobility and frontier tech across geographies.

Palo Alto, CA

SparkLabs Group is a global network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds founded in 2013. With presence across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, they have invested in 500+ startups across six...

Menlo Park, CA

Partnering with ambitious early-stage founders building category-defining companies; focus on early-stage consumer and enterprise opportunities across North America.

San Francisco, CA

Early-stage venture fund focused exclusively on marketplace startups and the marketplace stack; leverages the Everything Marketplaces community and a world-class LP/operator network to support...

Los Angeles, CA

Our thesis has three thematic focus areas: Autonomous Infrastructure (perception and sensors infrastructure), AI-Powered Data Network Effects (capture, structure and transform data to create...

Santa Monica, CA

Founded in 1996, Upfront Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Santa Monica, California. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the commercial services, software,...

Campbell, CA

Early-stage investments focused on enterprise software, SaaS, IT services and enterprise AI; active manager of an early-stage venture fund and occasional balance-sheet investments where they can add...

Los Angeles, CA

Stage Venture Partners is a pre-Seed and Seed stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging enterprise software technology for B2B markets across North America. They focus on recurring revenue...

Santa Monica, CA

Early-stage (seed and Series A) venture capital firm investing in visionary founders building disruptive software businesses across work, health, commerce, and money, with a focus on enabling...

Los Angeles, CA

Investing in category-disrupting companies in the future of commerce; partnering with founder-led, commerce-first startups and providing deep operating support and network.

San Francisco, CA

Breakpoint Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded by Jim Payne. The firm incubates and invests from inception through Seed and Series A, and also participates in later-stage...

Santa Monica, CA

Patron backs early-stage founders defining next-generation consumer technology through a gaming lens. Focused on Seed-stage investments across games, consumer internet, and Web3, leveraging...

Manhattan Beach, CA

Intelligent Beauty incubates and operates businesses in the personal care, beauty and fashion spaces. The company believes in a better way to launch and grow businesses in the marketplace today,...

Sunnyvale, CA

Founded in 2006, Plug and Play Tech Center is an accelerator and incubator firm based in Sunnyvale, California. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in advanced manufacturing, aerospace,...

Menlo Park, CA

Venture Funds and Operating System for Independent VC Professionals. Join as a Partner; apply to raise or recommend startups. Focus on companies on the market with revenue or lead investment from...

San Diego, CA

Mid-stage, community-oriented VC focused on propelling technology startups globally. Preference for software-enabled, capital-efficient B2B models (open to select B2C and HaaS). Typical first check...

Burlingame, CA

We invest in a small number of select founders and actively mentor them to achieve success. With 30+ years of experience founding and scaling startups, our team provides hands-on operational support,...

Palo Alto, CA

Global seed fund focused on technology-centric beauty, wellness, and digital health startups. Backs diverse and female founders, focuses on pre-seed and seed, and invests globally leveraging an...

Los Angeles, CA

Founded in 1999, JUMP Investors is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. The firm seeks to make investments in sectors like information technology, healthcare, media, and...

San Francisco, CA

Seed-stage venture fund partnering with founders early. Focus on being founder-first partners and building long-term relationships; strong emphasis on diverse founders and early technology-enabled...

Menlo Park, CA

Depth-focused global VC investing in bold founders across enterprise, AI, fintech, healthcare and consumer sectors; active from Seed through later stages with a global team and long-term engagement.

Newport Beach, CA

Seed-stage, capital-efficient technology startups (enterprise & consumer) primarily on the Southern California 'Tech Coast', with emphasis on enterprise SaaS, AI, cloud, payments/FinTech, and related...

Los Angeles, CA

Opportunities for investment with possibility of hands on involvement. Ideal founder: Subject matter expert with history of innovation and sales expertise.

Menlo Park, CA

Provides debt and equity financing to venture capital-backed companies globally across company lifespans; focuses on structuring flexible transactions and partnering with VCs and entrepreneurs.

Los Angeles, CA

Founded in 1999, JUMP Investors is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. The firm seeks to make investments in sectors like information technology, healthcare, media, and...

San Francisco, CA

We partner with ambitious and curious early-stage founders who want to learn and grow as leaders. We invest $500-750K in early stage companies and provide access to an Affiliate Network of...