List of VC funds still investing despite Covid-19
Startups, don’t worry there are still investors actively funding
Startup companies by nature are high tech innovation ventures that usually have a high upfront investment cost with longer term revenue and profitability models. Many modern day startups go through funding cycles of venture investment in order to achieve scale and therefore require active venture funding in order to survive, grow, and achieve sustainability.
However, with the novel coronavirus Covid-19, the venture industry has been perceived to have stopped deploying capital in an effort to stay conservative. Contrary to popular belief, while there is evidence of the venture industry pausing deal flow, many funds are still active and deploying capital.
Its a very good time for venture capital firms to deploy capital.
The reasons for this are:
- Less competition for good quality deal flow as more conservative funds are scaling back investments
- Companies within a venture fund’s portfolio are also struggling, so strategic investments to ventures who will compliment and help existing portfolio companies is a great strategy for protecting their portfolio
- Many of the most successful and profitable companies have been formed out of a necessity for low cost — efficient alternatives to existing products/services in dire times; for e.g. the 2007 financial crisis resulted in the formation of hotel industry disrupting AirBnB
How to connect to these active funds?
If you are interested in applying your venture to any one of the above funds, please apply here and in the fundraising section indicate a maximum of 5 funds you want to target and why:
https://www.startupfuel.com/opportunity?opportunity_id=5e7e31488aa700002d0f8b85
Help us expand this list
If you are a venture fund or know a venture fund that isn’t on this list, but are accepting and reviewing deal flow, please submit here so we can expand the list.
We can’t guarantee that investors will review every single application, but we will forward a list of applicants to the most requested funds. I would like to thank Laurent Grill of Luma Launch for putting this list together and sharing it. We all have to do our part to improve the world around us.
