The Startup Scene in Georgia

Browse the Georgia startup ecosystem featuring 54 investors and startups. Our directory includes 48 angel investors and VCs with an average check size of $15.1M, plus 6 startups across all sectors. 2 investors are actively investing, and 0 startups are generating revenue.

48
Investors
6
Startups
$15.1M
Avg Check
0%
With Revenue
Atlanta
Top City
4%
Active Investors

Yagna Patel

Yagna Patel

GA

GlideU

Tyler Mullin

Georgia

CONSUMERCONSUMER MARKETPLACES

Gabriel Green

Gabriel Green

BOOTSTRAPPED

Georgia

DropSeats

Devin Morgan

Atlanta, GA

ECOMMERCE MARKETPLACESCONSUMER MARKETPLACES

Millions of paid-for event seats go unused every year, costing fans (lost ticket value), venues (lost in-venue spending), and artists/teams (lower payouts and poor optics). Existing resale platforms...

Product BuiltTechnical

Aisha Tunkara

Aisha Tunkara

Atlanta, GA

RepeatPrior Exit

World of Wordcraft LLC

Jules Wordcraft

PRE SEED

Georgia

APPLIED AIAR VRGENERATIVE AI

Static NPCs and predictable storylines harm immersion. Current gaming AI relies on pre-programmed dialogue trees that limit branching, lack emotional continuity, and feel robotic.

Product Built

Ogden Capital

Ogden Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $1.2M – $1.2M

OGDEN CAPITAL GROUP is a full-service financial services firm. They assist individuals, families, and small to mid-sized business owners with managing their finances and investments, with an...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

TechOperators

TechOperators

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $1.3M – $29.0M

TechOperators is an early-stage venture capital firm whose mission is to invest capital and our practical experiences to help entrepreneurs build great technology companies. TechOperators was founded...

Exploring15 portfolio co.

Advanced Technology Development Center

Advanced Technology Development Center

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $2.3M – $5.0M

[The Advanced Technology Development Center](http://www.atdc.org) (ATDC) is a startup incubator that helps technology entrepreneurs in Georgia launch and build successful companies. Founded in 1980,...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

SunTrust Bank

SunTrust Bank

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $550K – $150.0M

SunTrust Banks, Inc., with total assets of $174.8 billion on September 30, 2008, is one of the nation’s largest and strongest financial holding companies. Through its banking subsidiaries, the...

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SMV SERIES LLC - PERSONA AI PRE-SEED SERIES

SMV SERIES LLC - PERSONA AI PRE-SEED SERIES

VC

Atlanta, Georgia

Check: $22K – $110K
Exploring

SMV SERIES LLC - FIGURE AI-C SERIES

SMV SERIES LLC - FIGURE AI-C SERIES

VC

Atlanta, Georgia

Check: $26K – $132K
Exploring

SMV SERIES LLC - VEROBOTICS SEED SERIES

SMV SERIES LLC - VEROBOTICS SEED SERIES

VC

Atlanta, Georgia

Exploring

Circadian Ventures Fund

Circadian Ventures Fund

VC

Atlanta, Georgia

Exploring

We B Ionia

We B Ionia

VC

Canton, Georgia

Exploring

Shotput Ventures

Shotput Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $20K – $120K

Shotput Ventures is an Atlanta-based startup accelerator. Shotput Ventures gives seed funding and conception-phase mentoring to capital-light startups in the Atlanta area. The program is an...

Exploring6 portfolio co.

UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund

UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $2.0M – $30.0M

The Strategic Enterprise Fund (the "SEF") is the private equity strategic investment arm of UPS. The Fund is a corporate venture capital group which focuses on developing critical partnerships and...

Exploring7 portfolio co.

C&B Capital

C&B Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $3.5M – $27.0M

Our firm was founded in 1996 by Ed Croft and Ted Bender, each having spent more than 20 years as investment bankers at The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc., a large, Atlanta-based investment banking...

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Arcapita Ventures

Arcapita Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $8.0M – $37.0M

Arcapita operates out of four offices in Bahrain, Atlanta, London and Singapore. The Bank has a paid-in capital of $225 million, of which approximately 81% is held by over 255 prominent individuals...

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Seraph Group

Seraph Group

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $350K – $20.0M

It all began in 2003, with a conversation outlining the inefficiencies in Angel investing in addition to the difficulties entrepreneurs face while raising start-up capital. Few investment groups...

Exploring16 portfolio co.

Cox Enterprises

Cox Enterprises

Corporate

Atlanta, GA

Check: $3.5M – $13.3M

Cox Enterprises is a media company and provider of automotive services. Their major operating subsidiaries include Cox Communications (cable television distribution, telephone, high-speed Internet...

Exploring9 portfolio co.

First Light Ventures

First Light Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $75K – $500K

First Light invests in high-growth, seed-stage social enterprises. First Light believes in the potential of entrepreneurs to develop sustainable, market-based solutions to the challenges faced by...

Exploring31 portfolio co.

GRA Venture Fund

GRA Venture Fund

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $1.0M – $12.0M

The GRA Venture Fund, LLC is a private investment fund established to provide investment capital to companies that participate in the Georgia Research Alliance VentureLab commercialization...

Exploring5 portfolio co.

ITC Holding Company

ITC Holding Company

VC

West Point, GA

Check: $17.0M – $54.0M

Founded in 1896, ITC Holding Company, LLC is proud of its century-long legacy of innovation in the widely diversified fields of telecommunications, technology, financial services, transaction...

Exploring10 portfolio co.

Eastern Capital

Eastern Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $5.6M – $89.0M

Eastern Capital is a private commercial lender.

Exploring3 portfolio co.

BIP Ventures

BIP Capital, LLC

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $500K – Varies
AI MLFINTECHPAYMENTS+5

Invests in software and tech-enabled services solving real problems across seed to later-stage, focused on the Southeast and US; partners with founders and provides performance engineering and...

Exploring108 portfolio co.

Masters Capital

Masters Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $30.0M – $75.0M

Masters Capital , LLC is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm also manages family of alternative assets. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

BIP Opportunities Fund

BIP Opportunities Fund

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $2.8M – $7.5M

BIP Opportunities Fund, LP is an Atlanta-based investment firm focused on providing capital and operational support to emerging, high-growth companies. They seek to invest between $2 million to $5...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

GMT Capital

GMT Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $7.4M – $110.5M

GMT Capital Corp. is a private investment company, the General Partner and Investment Manager for several hedge funds, each managed under the same long-term investment philosophy. They are long-term,...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

RFT Investment Company

RFT Investment Company

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $10.0M – $25.0M

Rft Investment Company, LLC is a private company categorized under Investment Offices, Nec and located in Atlanta, GA. Our records show it was established in and incorporated in Georgia. Current...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

Genesis Capital

Genesis Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $1.8M – $15.0M

Genesis Capital is an independent investment and merchant banking firm focused on key growth sectors of the economy. They work with public and private corporations as well as family owned businesses...

Exploring9 portfolio co.

TTV Capital

TTV Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $3.0M – $38.0M

TTV Capital invests in technology-enabled financial services businesses that serve the varied needs of the financial services sector and the consumers of financial products. Their team of experienced...

Exploring7 portfolio co.

Total Technology Ventures

Total Technology Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $2.6M – $17.0M

Total Technology Ventures ("TTV") was founded in May of 2000 by Managing Partners Gardiner Garrard and Tom Smith. TTV is an Atlanta-based venture capital firm that provides capital primarily to early...

Exploring9 portfolio co.

Buckhead Investment Partners

Buckhead Investment Partners

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $1.5M – $26.0M

Buckhead Investment Partners is a Registered Investment Advisor that offers a wide array of investment strategies and services.

Exploring31 portfolio co.

Industrial Technology Ventures

Industrial Technology Ventures

VC

Alpharetta, GA

Check: $5.0M – $7.1M

Industrial Technology Ventures, L.P. (ITV) is a $50 million fund sponsored by Cordova Ventures and HSB Engineering Finance Corporation (a subsidiary of HSB Group/AIG). ITV invests in expansion, mid...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

Imlay Investments

Imlay Investments

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $150K – $26.0M

Imlay Investments is a private investment firm that provides funding for very early stage technology companies. Mr. Imlay is the retired Chairman and CEO of Management Science America Inc. (MSA),...

Exploring19 portfolio co.

BLH Venture Partners

BLH Venture Partners

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $5.0M – $7.5M

BLH Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focused on funding innovation. They look for smart entrepreneurs that focus on execution within growing markets in which they have relevant...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

Aero Equity

Aero Equity

VC

Savannah, GA

Check: $14.0M – $30.6M

AeroEquity is a private investment firm dedicated to helping companies succeed in the ever-changing aviation industry. Our company provides management expertise, strategic direction and financial...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

Cordova Ventures

Cordova Ventures

VC

Alpharetta, GA

Check: $5.3M – $23.0M

In amounts ranging from $1.0 million to $5.0 million, Cordova invests in privately-held companies at varying stages of development, including start-up, early-stage, later-stage growth and small to...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

Knoll Ventures

Knoll Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $500K – $3.0M
B2B SAASENTERPRISE SAASSMB SAAS+1

We back outlier, tech-enabled B2B founders at the Pre-Series A stage, leading or co-leading rounds of $500k–$3M and providing introductions and operational support beyond capital.

Exploring5 portfolio co.

Joshua Upshaw

Hidalga Technologies LLC

Angel

Atlanta, GA

Check: $100K – $300K

Atlanta Technology Angels is a member-led angel group investing in early-stage, technology-oriented businesses with the potential to scale rapidly and with capital efficiency, primarily in the...

Exploring1 portfolio co.

Forte Ventures

Forte Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $3.0M – $3.0M

Forté Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing with corporate strategic partners in technology companies across diversified industry sectors throughout North America. Focus areas...

Exploring36 portfolio co.

Navigation Capital

Navigation Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $15.0M – $30.0M

Navigation Capital Partners ("NCP") is an Atlanta-based private equity firm that invests in lower middle market niche manufacturing and services businesses located in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

Change Partners

Change Partners

VC

Athens, GA

Check: $1.3M – $5.7M

Change Partners is an organizational consulting firm committed to helping individuals and organizations achieve business sustainability by understanding that work-culture governs success.

Exploring5 portfolio co.

Gray Ventures

Gray Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $7.5M – $20.5M

Gray Ventures, is no longer investing. It is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in companies that have completed seed round and seeking second...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

Bear Stearns

Bear Stearns

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $30.0M – $48.3M

Bear Stearns is an investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm.

Exploring110 portfolio co.

Fulcrum Equity Partners

Fulcrum Equity Partners

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $3.0M – $5.3M

Fulcrum Equity Partners is an Atlanta-based private equity firm focused on providing expansion capital to rapidly growing companies. The three founding partners have significant operating experience...

Exploring63 portfolio co.

Hamilton Ventures LLC

Hamilton Ventures LLC

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $1.1M – $26.0M

Hamilton Ventures is a boutique Principle-Investments house. The firm's investment horizon is typically 18-24 months and there is a preference for special situations like pre-IPO, strategic sale...

Exploring4 portfolio co.

Fulcrum Ventures

Fulcrum Ventures

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $2.2M – $20.0M

Fulcrum Ventures is an Atlanta-based private equity firm focused on providing expansion capital to rapidly growing companies. The three founding partners have significant operating experience in...

Exploring5 portfolio co.

Draper & Associates

Draper & Associates

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $1.0M – $18.0M

Draper & Associates is a consulting firm focused on formulating and implementing solutions to a wide range of business and management challenges. In short, they help organizations successfully...

Exploring17 portfolio co.

Accuitive Medical Ventures

Accuitive Medical Ventures

VC

Duluth, GA

Check: $4.0M – $65.0M

Accuitive Medical Ventures is a venture capital firm with committed capital of $230 million. They have offices in Palo Alto, CA, Atlanta, GA, Rochester, MN and Fernandina Beach, FL. They are a market...

Exploring14 portfolio co.

INVESCO Private Capital

INVESCO Private Capital

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $5.0M – $49.5M

Since 1982, Invesco Private Capital and their predecessor firms have developed a reputation for excellence in private equity investing, backing industry-leading venture, buyout and other private...

Exploring68 portfolio co.

Noro-Moseley Partners

Noro-Moseley Partners

VC

Atlanta, GA

Check: $750K – $54.0M

NMP is a venture capital firm that has invested in more than 160 promising start-ups and early-growth-stage companies in the technology, healthcare and business services industries. The firm is based...

Exploring45 portfolio co.

Atlanta Technology Angels

Atlanta Technology Angels

Angel

Atlanta, GA

Check: $100K – $300K
BIOTECHMEDICAL DEVICESDIGITAL HEALTH+4

Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) is a member-led angel investor network based in Atlanta, focused on the Southeast US. ATA invests in early-stage, technology-oriented companies, typically at...

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About the Georgia Startup Ecosystem

Georgia is home to a thriving startup ecosystem with 48 investors and 6 startups in our directory. Key hubs include Atlanta, Alpharetta, Canton.

The most active sectors in Georgia include B2B SAAS, DIGITAL HEALTH, HEALTHCARE SAAS. 2 investors have made recent investments, showing strong capital deployment activity in the region.

Local investors offer advantages beyond capital — regional network effects, knowledge of local market dynamics, and introductions to customers and partners. Geographic proximity often leads to more engaged board members and advisors.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many investors and startups are in Georgia?
We track 48 investors and 6 startups in Georgia. 2 investors have made recent investments, and 0 startups are generating revenue.
What is the typical check size for investors in Georgia?
The average check size among investors in Georgia is $15.1M. Check sizes vary by investor type — angels typically write smaller checks while VCs and funds invest larger amounts.
How do I connect with investors in Georgia?
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What sectors are most popular in Georgia?
The most active sectors in Georgia based on our data include B2B_SAAS, DIGITAL_HEALTH, HEALTHCARE_SAAS. However, investors and startups in our directory span all major sectors.
Which cities in Georgia have the most startup activity?
The highest concentration of investors and startups in Georgia is in Atlanta, Alpharetta, Canton. These cities have the strongest local ecosystems for fundraising and startup growth.

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