The Startup Scene in New Jersey

Browse the New Jersey startup ecosystem featuring 53 investors and startups. Our directory includes 51 angel investors and VCs with an average check size of $15.5M, plus 2 startups across all sectors. 2 investors are actively investing, and 0 startups are generating revenue.

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Investors
2
Startups
$15.5M
Avg Check
0%
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Princeton
Top City
4%
Active Investors

Christian Guttilla

Christian Guttilla

New Jersey

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Auston R. Tighe

ACCELERATOR INCUBATOR

New Jersey

S Squared - END

S Squared - END

VC

Englewood, New Jersey

Check: $67K – $337K
Exploring

S Squared - NGT

S Squared - NGT

VC

Englewood, New Jersey

Check: $135K – $675K
Exploring

S Squared - ANT

S Squared - ANT

VC

Englewood, New Jersey

Check: $17K – $87K
Exploring

Riffle-Gather

Riffle-Gather

VC

Jersey City, New Jersey

Exploring

FemHealth Ventures Fund

FemHealth Ventures Fund

VC

Short Hills, New Jersey

Exploring

Ovex 10-1

Ovex 10-1

VC

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey

Exploring

Boro Capital Partners

Boro Capital Partners

VC

Montclair, New Jersey

Check: $250K – $1.3M
Exploring

Cornucopian Capital

Cornucopian Capital

VC

Montclair, New Jersey

Exploring

SOSV HAX GENESIS CONSORTIUM

SOSV HAX GENESIS CONSORTIUM

VC

Princeton, New Jersey

Exploring

NPV

NPV

VC

Boonton, New Jersey

Check: $30K – $150K
Exploring

Battelle Ventures

Battelle Ventures

VC

Ewing, NJ

Check: $500K – $23.3M

Battelle Ventures, L.P., and its affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Partners (IVP), have a combined $255 million under management to create and accelerate the development of early-stage technology...

Exploring15 portfolio co.

Black and Latino Angel Investment Fund

Urban Entrepreneurs Fund / Black and Latino Angel Investment Fund

Angel

Newark, NJ

Check: $5K – Varies
FINTECHPAYMENTSB2B SAAS+5

Provide seed-stage capital, mentorship, and ecosystem support to urban entrepreneurs—primarily Black and Latinx founders—with ties to New Jersey and other urban areas to increase inclusive...

ExploringDEI Focus17 portfolio co.

NJTC Venture Fund

NJTC Venture Fund

VC

Mount Laurel, NJ

Check: $500K – $11.5M

NJTC Venture Fund makes catalytic seed, startup, and early stage venture capital investments. The firm actively partners with entrepreneurs to build unique, leading-edge businesses that drive...

Exploring8 portfolio co.

Innovation Garden

Innovation Garden

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $120K – $530K

Innovation Garden will accelerate the growth and development of the most promising young companies and technologies through the unique capabilities of the Innovation Garden Accelerator Program (IGAP)...

Exploring4 portfolio co.

TechLaunch

TechLaunch

Corporate

Clifton, NJ

Check: $20K – $200K

TechLaunch provides seed-stage technology companies with funding, mentorship, business training and exposure to qualified investors.

Exploring7 portfolio co.

Palisade Capital Management

Palisade Capital Management

VC

Fort Lee, NJ

Check: $850K – $14.0M

Palisade Capital Management is a Fort Lee, NJ based SEC Registered Investment Adviser with approximately $2.2 billion of assets under management as of January 31, 2009, in a variety of product and...

Exploring14 portfolio co.

New Jersey Economic Development Authority

New Jersey Economic Development Authority

VC

Trenton, NJ

Check: $200K – $2.0M

EDA is to strengthen New Jersey’s economy by retaining and growing businesses through financial assistance, by renewing communities, and by promoting the State’s strategic advantages to attract...

Exploring230 portfolio co.

Zon Capital Partners

Zon Capital Partners

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $2.0M – $12.5M
Exploring4 portfolio co.

Origin Partners

Origin Partners

VC

Hillsborough, NJ

Check: $11.0M – $11.3M

Origin Partners is a venture capital investment company managed by investment and business professionals whose careers have been devoted to the creation of value where none existed before. Origin...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

NRG Energy

NRG Energy

Corporate

Princeton, NJ

Check: $8.3M – $40.0M
CLIMATE ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY

NRG Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a wholesale power generation company. The company engages in the ownership, development, construction, and operation of power generation...

Exploring52 portfolio co.

Edelson Technology Ventures

Edelson Technology Ventures

VC

Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Check: $6.0M – $46.0M
Exploring2 portfolio co.

Chestnut Ridge Capital

Chestnut Ridge Capital

VC

Paramus, NJ

Check: $4.6M – $11.5M

Chestnut Ridge Capital LLC is a private company categorized under Management Investment Open-End and located in Paramus, NJ. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $2.5 to 5...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

Yorkville Advisors

Yorkville Advisors

VC

Mountainside, NJ

Check: $455K – $27.1M

Yorkville Advisors, LLC is an alternative investment manager and provider of specialty financing solutions. Founded in January 2001 by Mark Angelo, Yorkville specializes in providing flexible,...

Exploring12 portfolio co.

Sycamore Ventures

Sycamore Ventures

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $3.5M – $30.0M

Sycamore is a global investment firm with offices in the US, China, India, and Singapore. Collectively, their investment professionals have well over 100 years of investment experience, have invested...

Exploring5 portfolio co.

Care Capital

Care Capital

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $3.3M – $50.0M

Care Capital is a life sciences venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey. They invest in entrepreneurial companies that are developing pharmaceutical assets and they currently manage...

Exploring34 portfolio co.

KEC Ventures

KEC Ventures

VC

Manasquan, NJ

Check: $1.0M – $8.0M

We are founders, operators and investors partnering with entrepreneurs building disruptive and innovative companies. Given our collective backgrounds we are able to understand an entrepreneur’s...

Exploring9 portfolio co.

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

VC

NJ

Check: $6.0M – $20.0M

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) is evolving corporate healthcare venture capital globally by utilizing their healthcare ecosystem strategy. This investment strategy connects...

Exploring29 portfolio co.

Billy Ruck

Field Agent

Angel

NJ

Check: $25K – $1.0M

JumpStart NJ is a member-led angel group investing in early-stage technology ventures in New Jersey, the Mid-Atlantic region, and beyond. The group focuses on high-growth, scalable technology...

Exploring26 portfolio co.

JumpStart New Jersey Angel Network

JumpStart New Jersey Angel Network

Angel

NJ

Check: $25K – $500K
B2B SAASHEALTHCARE SAASDIGITAL HEALTH+5

Member-led angel group investing primarily in early-stage technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic (with ~1/3 of investments in New Jersey). Areas of interest include SaaS B2B, HealthTech, Medical...

Exploring6 portfolio co.

nvp capital

nvp capital

VC

Newark, NJ

Check: $100K – $2.0M
FINTECHDIGITAL HEALTHHEALTHCARE SAAS+8

Early-stage investors backing founders transforming legacy industries. Lead pre-seed and seed rounds in B2B software, vertical AI, fintech, healthtech, supply chain and marketplaces; provide capital...

Exploring101 portfolio co.

Startup:Education

Startup:Education

VC

Newark, NJ

Check: $4.0M – $9.0M

Startup:Education is a new foundation launched by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg with $100 million in September, 2010. Their mission is to take a startup approach to building a better...

Exploring27 portfolio co.

Edgewater

Edgewater

VC

Jersey City, NJ

Check: $8.0M – $12.0M

They firmly believe in a relationship approach to their business. Relationships don't work without honesty. Their success is due to the integrity and trust that they have with clients and candidates...

Exploring11 portfolio co.

BD Ventures

BD Ventures

VC

Franklin Lakes, NJ

Check: $20.0M – $40.0M

BD Ventures, L.L.C. is a venture capital arm of Becton, Dickinson and Company specializing in investments in early and late stage private companies. It primarily invests in the medical technology,...

Exploring2 portfolio co.

OmniCapital Group

OmniCapital Group

VC

Freehold, NJ

Check: $4.0M – $4.0M

OmniCapital Group is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build the best next-generation communication and information technologies for rapidly growing markets. They invest in...

Exploring4 portfolio co.

Rockport Venture Partners

Rockport Venture Partners

VC

Spring Lake, NJ

Check: $22.1M – $30.0M

Rockport Venture Partners is a unique private placement firm that specializes in raising private equity from a global network of European, Asian and U.S. institutional private equity, cross-over and...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

Egis Capital Partners

Egis Capital Partners

VC

Madison, NJ

Check: $6.0M – $86.0M

Egis Capital Partners is a private equity fund formed for the purpose of making private equity investments exclusively in the security and homeland defense industry. Egis believes that through in...

Exploring10 portfolio co.

Dominion Ventures

Dominion Ventures

VC

Stratford, NJ

Check: $1.5M – $60.0M

[Dominion Ventures](http://www.dominionventures.net) purchases quality, pre-existing commercial properties that cash-flow upon acquisition, are recession resilient and have a strong upside potential.

Exploring4 portfolio co.

Hudson Capital Management

Hudson Capital Management

VC

Ridgewood, NJ

Check: $5.0M – $48.2M

The company helps clients better understand their financial situation and work within their constraints to optimize their investments in an effort to realize their financial goals. Using a toolbox...

Exploring4 portfolio co.

Gund Investment, LLC

Gund Investment, LLC

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $5.3M – $15.9M

Private investment firm of Gordon Gund, principal owner of Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association team and member of Board of Governors of National Basketball Association, Cleveland...

Exploring3 portfolio co.

Foundation Venture Capital Group

Foundation Venture Capital Group

VC

New Brunswick, NJ

Check: $100K – $500K

The Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC, was initially funded by the New Jersey Health Foundation with $5 million to invest. Because Foundation Venture Capital Group directly invests in the...

Exploring15 portfolio co.

Hudson Clean Energy Partners

Hudson Clean Energy Partners

VC

Teaneck, NJ

Check: $6.0M – $101.8M

Hudson Clean Energy Partners is a private equity firm formed in 2007 to invest in the dynamic and fast-growing clean energy markets. Members of the Hudson senior team formerly led the U.S....

Exploring7 portfolio co.

Energy Capital Partners

Energy Capital Partners

VC

Short Hills, NJ

Check: $1.2M – $300.0M

Energy Capital Partners is a private equity firm dedicated to investing in North America's energy infrastructure. Through their $2.25 billion fund (Energy Capital Partners I, LP), they invest in...

Exploring5 portfolio co.

Celgene

Celgene

Corporate

Summit, NJ

Check: $12.0M – $100.0M
BIOTECHIOT

Celgene Corporation engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative therapies to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory related diseases primarily in Europe and the United...

Exploring43 portfolio co.

The Vertical Group

The Vertical Group

VC

Summit, NJ

Check: $2.5M – $154.0M

The Vertical Group is a venture capital firm that is focused on the fields of medical technology and biotechnology.

Exploring14 portfolio co.

Ridgewood Capital

Ridgewood Capital

VC

Montvale, NJ

Check: $1.2M – $40.0M

Ridgewood Capital is a private equity firm located in Palo Alto, California and Ridgewood, New Jersey. They are an active, value-added investment partner with a focused investment strategy: to build...

Exploring13 portfolio co.

ProQuest Investments

ProQuest Investments

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $1.4M – $145.0M

Founded in 1998, ProQuest Investments is a healthcare venture capital firm with over $875 million under management. We have 12 deal professionals and three offices, our headquarters in Princeton, and...

Exploring18 portfolio co.

Cardinal Partners

Cardinal Partners

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $4.0M – $49.0M

[Cardinal Partners](http://www.cardinalpartners.com) is a venture capital partnership focused exclusively on healthcare investing.

Exploring34 portfolio co.

New Venture Partners

New Venture Partners

VC

Murray Hil, NJ

Check: $321K – $32.1M

New Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in corporate spinouts. It focuses on incubation, seed, and early stage investments. The firm invests in underleveraged or underutilized...

Exploring34 portfolio co.

Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation

Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation

VC

New Brunswick, NJ

Check: $284K – $95.7M

Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) is the venture capital subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. JJDC is comprised of experts and leaders in the health care and technology venture communities...

Exploring61 portfolio co.

Edison Ventures

Edison Ventures

VC

Lawrenceville, NJ

Check: $370K – $20.5M

Edison Ventures is an investment company that focuses on expansion-stage IT companies in the Eastern United States.

Exploring92 portfolio co.

Domain Associates

Domain Associates

VC

Princeton, NJ

Check: $1.0M – $145.0M

Founded in 1985, Domain Associates, L.L.C. is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences. With $2 billion of capital under management, Domain is headquartered in Princeton, NJ...

Exploring65 portfolio co.

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About the New Jersey Startup Ecosystem

New Jersey is home to a thriving startup ecosystem with 51 investors and 2 startups in our directory. Key hubs include Princeton, Englewood, Newark.

The most active sectors in New Jersey include B2B SAAS, HEALTHCARE SAAS, FINTECH. 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 New Jersey?
We track 51 investors and 2 startups in New Jersey. 2 investors have made recent investments, and 0 startups are generating revenue.
What is the typical check size for investors in New Jersey?
The average check size among investors in New Jersey is $15.5M. 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 New Jersey?
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What sectors are most popular in New Jersey?
The most active sectors in New Jersey based on our data include B2B_SAAS, HEALTHCARE_SAAS, FINTECH. However, investors and startups in our directory span all major sectors.
Which cities in New Jersey have the most startup activity?
The highest concentration of investors and startups in New Jersey is in Princeton, Englewood, Newark. These cities have the strongest local ecosystems for fundraising and startup growth.

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