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Funding & Capital

Capital is always a challenging asset to find within a startup ecosystem. Discover which traditional angel funding and venture capital funds are located in Atlanta, along with the non-traditional resources and business incentives that may apply to your start-up.
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Angel

Atlanta Tech Angels (ATA)

Group of accredited angel investors that provides early-stage, technology entrepreneurs with more than funding

Angel

Black Angel Tech Fund

The BATF is a venture capital firm focused on making seed and early stage investments in startup technology companies

Angel

Gathering of Angels

At Gathering of Angels you will find mature and seasoned Angel Investors and Investment Bankers who listen to with high interest to your presentation pitch for capital, and if interested will write a check to your new venture 1-30 days after your first presentation at GOA

Angel

Keiretsu Forum Atlanta

The Keiretsu Forum South-East Region was formed in July, 2014, with the launch of the Keiretsu Forum Miami, Florida chapter. Atlanta becomes the second South-East Region Chapter and the 41st chapter in the Keiretsu Forum global network.

Angel

Southeast Investor Group

Southeast Investor Group is a peer to peer membership composed of partners from 30 of the Venture Capital Funds in the Southeast, five corporate venture funds, and 25 individual investors (highly successful tech executives who have built and exited sizable companies)

Angel

TiE Angels

TiE Angels seeks to invest capital in companies to build the foundation yielding a profitable business or those seeking a first significant round of venture capital financing. TiE Angels looks for unique companies developing products, or those that are tech-focused or tech-enabled.

Angel

Venture South

VentureSouth is an early-stage venture firm that operates one of the largest angel investment groups in North America.

Incentives

Angel Investor Tax Credits

Encourages early investment in startup companies. Qualified investors who provide angel funding in 2012 or 2013 can claim income tax credits of 35 percent of their investment, with total credits of up to $50,000 allowed per year.

Incentives

Atlanta Forward Fund

The Atlanta Forward Loan fund will provide assistance to small businesses and startup companies located within accelerators, incubators, and other programs that provide capacity building in the City of Atlanta. Loan size will range from $5,000 to $20,000, and between 10 to 20 small business will receive financing. Funding for the new pilot program will be reprogrammed from the City of Atlanta’s Opportunity Loan Fund and managed by Invest Atlanta.

Incentives

Cobb County Entrepreneurship & Innovation

The purpose of the entrepreneurship and innovation incentive program is to provide services, assistance, and/or incentives to entrepreneurs and innovators who are in high skilled fields to assist them in growing their business, creating jobs, and maintaining their presence in the county.

Incentives

Invest Georgia Exemption

Permits intrastate crowdfunding; aggregate amount Georgia-based companies can raise in a year increased from $1 to $5 million.

Incentives

Opportunity Zones

Federal Opportunity Zones are a new community and economic development tool that aims to drive long-term private investment into low-income communities throughout the country. The City of Atlanta has 26 Opportunity Zones and is seeking to leverage the program as an important tool to support the development of jobs, affordable housing and economic vitality.

Incentives

Research and Development Tax Credit

R&D tax credits are available to any company that increases its qualified research spending. Brand new companies, existing companies embarking on R&D for the first time, established companies expanding their R&D budget - all are eligible for R&D tax credits.

Incentives

Small Business Tax Relief

Allows for faster depreciation on equipment deduction where businesses can choose to claim the expense in year one as opposed to over several years.

Incentives

Startup Tax Exemption

Provides a tax exemption for new and emerging technology businesses. Provides an exemption for businesses from paying the City’s license.

Non-Traditional

Accion Opportunity Fund

Accion Opportunity Fund is a financial support system that provides diverse, determined small business owners with access to capital, networks, and coaching.

Non-Traditional

Grameen America

Grameen America is dedicated to helping low-income women build small businesses to create better lives for their families. We offer access to loan capital, financial education, asset- and credit-building, and peer support to transform communities and advance financial mobility in the United States.

Non-Traditional

LiftFund

LiftFund provides small business loans for women & minority entrepreneurs and startups in Atlanta, Columbus, Warner Robins, Macon, and throughout Georgia. We help make capital accessible to help entrepreneurs create wealth for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Non-Traditional

Peachtree Minority Venture Fund

PMVF is a new million dollar student-led venture capital fund focused exclusively on black, LatinX and Native American founders, housed in the Roberto C. Goizueta Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Non-traditional

Access to Capital for Entrepreneurships (ACE)

Since 2000, ACE has been giving entrepreneurs a chance when others could not. ACE is a non-profit organization and the largest small business-focused community development loan fund in Georgia. ACE provides loan capital from $15,000 to $1,000,000 and business development resources to help its borrowers create and grow sustainable businesses which generate jobs.

Non-traditional

Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc.

Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc. is a certified Community Development Entity that provides flexible financing through various loan products to social entrepreneurs and high-impact businesses to expand or relocate in distressed areas within the City of Atlanta. The purpose of these loans is to foster economic development, job creation, and neighborhood revitalization.

Non-traditional

Atlanta MBDA Business Center

MBDA provides business and technical assistance that helps emerging and existing MBEs experience significant growth and sustainability and have a long-term economic impact through the creation of jobs and revenue.

Non-traditional

Atlanta Micro Fund

We seek to concentrate capital in low-income communities to create commercial corridors.

Non-traditional

Collab Capital

Collab Capital is an investment fund leveraging financial, human, and social capital to help founders build sustainable, technology enabled businesses.

Non-traditional

DEBCO

DEBCO is a private nonprofit financial services organization established in 1999. They exist to Develop Entrepreneurs, Businesses and Communities by supporting economic and community development activities and providing small businesses with access to capital and other services. We prioritize our services to minority and women-owned businesses and those located in selected economic revitalization corridors.

Non-traditional

Deal Flow Xchange

Our mission is to make Capital more affordable, accessible, and efficient; Deal Flow Xchange (DFX) offers investment networks a centralized hub to access a variety of deals and funding options across multiple sectors. The platform focuses on providing vetted investment opportunities, such as private equity and venture capital deals, as well as real estate projects.

Non-traditional

EnrichHer

EnrichHER connects pre-qualified companies led by women and founders of color to capital, coaching, and community so they can take their businesses to new heights.

Non-traditional

GoATL

The GoATL Fund is designed to accelerate and sustain social outcomes in our community through impact investing, the concept that strategically invested capital can achieve both a positive social impact and a financial return

Non-traditional

GoGeorgia Capital

Founded in 1951, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (the “Foundation”) is one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the Southeast, typically donating over $100 million annually to community non-profits and other philanthropic endeavors. We recently launched a new platform called GoGeorgia Capital, a simple pre-application meant to connect small businesses (and revenue-generating nonprofits) with mission-aligned lenders from across the State of Georgia.

Non-traditional

Goizueta Student Impact Investing Fund

The Emory University Goizueta Business School MBA student led loan fund seeks to invest $10,000 - $30,000 in socially-minded enterprises throughout the Atlanta region. Since 2014, GII has provided over $75,000 in low-interest loans to organizations transforming education, skills-training, and recidivism across Atlanta.

Non-traditional

Google Black Founders Fund

The $5M Google for Startups Black Founders Fund provides non-dilutive cash awards to Black led startups that have participated in our programs or have been nominated by our partner community. Selected founders receive between $50,000 and $100,000 in capital along with hands-on support to help their startup grow.

Non-traditional

Homegrown

Homegrown provides non-dilutive revenue-based growth capital to brick & mortar businesses with multiple locations. They do not fund pure technology companies. If you are building a coffee shop, restaurant, gym, beauty business, healthcare business, or something else that a retail consumer can walk into, Homegrown would love to meet you.

Non-traditional

Metro Atlanta Chamber Restore ATL Grant

The Metro Atlanta Chamber, through the support of its investors in the metro Atlanta business community, implemented the RESTORE ATL Grants to support Black-owned small- and medium-sized businesses adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the program, eligible businesses can apply for immediate gap assistance grants of $5,000-$10,000.

Non-traditional

Numinous Capital

Numinous Capital unlocks the highest-potential opportunities in deep-tech, biotech, infrastructure, and industrial innovation. We give our partners access to these underfunded, high-impact sectors where the smartest capital moves early, valuations are asymmetric, and market dominance is up for the taking.t

Non-traditional

Softbank The Opportunity Fund

Through the SB Opportunity Fund, we are committed to inviting more visionary, underrepresented founders into our global ecosystem. To do that, we are assembling a diverse Investment Committee that includes members from both inside and outside of SoftBank, and looking at early stage investments alongside growth investments for the first time in decades.

Non-traditional

Sound Media Ventures

Sound Media Ventures invests in founders who transform how media is created, distributed, and monetized. SMV invests during early growth, between Seed and Series A and are drawn to companies that leverage novel technologies to drive scale strategically adding value to influence performance outcomes.

Non-traditional

The Awesome Foundation

The Atlanta Chapter of the Awesome Foundation grants support projects in sciences, arts, education, civic engagement, media, and entertainment, just about anything as long as it contributes to making Atlanta more AWESOME!

Non-traditional

The Thriving Cities Fund

The Thriving Cities Fund is a partnership between Flock Safety and Homegrown that funds multi-location brick & mortar businesses that are looking to expand. This Fund does not provide capital to pure technology companies.

Non-traditional

Village Micro Fund

The Village Micro Fund is a grassroots microfinance organization with the mission to empower entrepreneurs in Metro Atlanta by providing access to capital, business education, and a “Village” of support.

Non-traditional

W3 Studio

W3 Studio is a venture studio to help Black, Latinx, and Women founders in Atlanta build startups in web3. We fund idea stage startups with $200,000 in non-dilutive grants, and we assist founders with resources and mentors to launch your business.

Venture

Dogwood Ventures

Dogwood Ventures accelerates B2B software founders with capital, knowledge and talent through a curated network of extraordinary entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Venture Capital

11-11 Ventures

11-11 Ventures is an innovation-driven venture capital firm investing and growing early stage technology companies run by the best entrepreneurial minds in the world.

Venture Capital

Alchemus Capital

Alchemus Capital is a partner fund of Loeb Capital that serves as our anchor LP investor. They have a diversified portfolio of high caliber deals across verticals with companies able to scale and position for cross-borders commercialization coming from our exclusive global trust network. They focus on inclusion, including women and global, multicultural entrepreneurs.

Venture Capital

Atlanta Ventures

We empower SaaS entrepreneurs in the Southeast to achieve success with community, content, and capital.

Venture Capital

Automotive Ventures

Automotive Ventures supports automotive entrepreneurs, businesses, and investors with industry-specific resources, early-stage venture capital, strategic consulting, and extensive connections.

Venture Capital

BLH Ventures

Early stage investment firm focused on funding innovation

Venture Capital

BRONZE

BRONZE funds invest in companies that profitably move societal disparity to prosperity across multiple categories such as health, financial services, workforce, climate, and AI.

Venture Capital

Bronze Valley

Bronze Valley’s mission is to empower underrepresented entrepreneurs by providing holistic venture capital solutions that catalyze innovation and impact.

Venture Capital

CEO Ventures

CEO Ventures manages an angel fund focused on backing extraordinary founders that have the vision and abilities to build great companies.

Venture Capital

CTW Venture Partners

CTW Venture Partners is changing the world by investing in companies that are creating products that will change the way the world operates

Venture Capital

Catalyst by Wellstar

Catalyst by Wellstar is the first-of-its-kind innovation company and venture firm created and operated within a health ecosystem to holistically address healthcare disruption by harnessing problems, building solutions, deploying capital, and establishing strategic partnerships across industries. Catalyst is actively investing in Pre-seed to Series A startups that align with the company's six focus areas: customer experience, data, digital health, future of work, supply chain and logistics, and sustainability.

Venture Capital

Catalyst by Wellstar

Catalyst by Wellstar is the first-of-its-kind innovation company and venture firm created by one of the largest health systems in Georgia. Catalyst by Wellstar aims to build better healthcare by harnessing problems, creating solutions, and partnering across industries to deploy a true ecosystem of care.

Venture Capital

Circadian Ventures

Venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech and tech-enabled businesses. We actively partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build enduring businesses. Circadian Ventures has investments in various sectors across the United States.

Venture Capital

Croft & Bender

Croft & Bender is a provider of superior M&A, capital raising, and financial advisory services to middle market and emerging growth companies

Venture Capital

Curate

Transforming the South's entrepreneurial landscape by flooding its participants with the resources they need to thrive - on a scale never before pursued

Venture Capital

Drive Capital

Drive Capital is a private investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs in building long-term sustainable businesses.

Venture Capital

EGL Ventures

EGL Ventures was founded in 1988 to make private equity investments in the Southeast. The firm has had a consistent investment strategy since inception and seeks situations where the combination of ideas, dollars, experience, and relationships can create long-term sustainable shareholder value.

Venture Capital

Eastside Partners

Eastside Partners invests primarily in Healthcare and Information Technology companies based in the southeastern United States. They focus on regional businesses looking to scale their sales efforts nationally, with a preference for companies characterized by defensible strategic positioning, rapid customer ROI, and recurring revenue.

Venture Capital

Ellis Capital

Ellis Capital is a early stage venture capital and opportunistic investment firm based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Venture Capital

Engage VC

Engage is an independent venture fund and platform, established and financed by some of the most influential corporations in the world. Our mission is to strengthen collaboration and partnership between leading corporations and top entrepreneurs.

Venture Capital

Fearless Fund

Fearless Fund invests in women of color led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth aggressive companies. Fearless Fund is built by women of color for women of color.

Venture Capital

Forte Ventures

Forte Ventures invest across a diversified set of industry sectors including: IT, mobility, digital media, fintech, and industrial technology.

Venture Capital

Fulcrum Equity Partners

Fulcrum Equity Partners manages over $600 million and makes equity investments in rapidly growing business that are led by strong entrepreneurs and management teams. They target companies within the healthcare, B2B SaaS and technology enabled services industries.

Venture Capital

GRA Venture Fund

The GRA Venture Fund, LLC is a private investment fund created to help finance promising companies emerging from Georgia's universities

Venture Capital

Georgia Oak Partners

Georgia Oak Partners invest growth equity into companies positioned for topline acceleration

Venture Capital

Gray Ghost Ventures

GGV seeks to eliminate poverty and strengthen communities through catalytic, early-stage investments in the developing world.

Venture Capital

Hawks Ventures

Hawks Ventures is a mission-driven venture capital investment fund, focused on expanding upon the Atlanta Hawks core values of innovation and inclusivity. We focus on investing in early-stage startups, led by minority and underrepresented founders, that seek to impact the ways consumers experience a product or service. We look to invest in companies with high-growth potential that have big ideas, clear vision, and a plan for execution.

Venture Capital

Johnson Venture Partners

Johnson Venture Partners (JVP) is a micro VC fund investing in high-growth startups in the Southeast. JVP was founded in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, GA.

Venture Capital

Jump Fund

The JumpFund invests in early-stage, women-led, high-growth ventures.

Venture Capital

Kinetic Ventures

First institutional funding for entrepreneurs.

Venture Capital

Knoll Ventures

Knoll Ventures is an Atlanta, GA based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in technology-enabled businesses focused on B2B markets. Knoll primarily invests in pre-Series A companies that have demonstrated customer traction and identified actionable near-term growth initiatives.

Venture Capital

KnowCap

With KnowCap’s resources/programs, we aim to run an entire startup ecosystem under one unified brand that only serves one purpose, our mission: We want to help visionary people turn their ideas into fast-growing businesses, and we want to do that as fast as possible.

Venture Capital

Leaders Fund

Helping entrepreneurs build storied SaaS companies.

Venture Capital

Noro-Moseley Partners

NMP provides leading entrepreneurs with energy, connections and expertise to build world-class companies

Venture Capital

Outlander Labs

For over 10 years, we have identified and helped scale some of the world’s biggest and best tech companies. With 100+ early-stage tech investments and 10 unicorns, including Twitter, Lyft, Gusto, Clover Health, Scale, Bird, Wish, and Postmates to name a few. Our mission is to bring our expertise and network to the best early-stage talent in the Southeast.

Venture Capital

Overline

Overline invests in exceptional founders building in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. We invest early—from the concept stage, through initial traction and company-building. We are business model and industry-agnostic, and we lead pre-seed and seed rounds with investments ranging from $250,000 to $1.5 million.

Venture Capital

Panoramic Ventures

Panoramic Ventures opens new doors for founders, giving more entrepreneurs access to capital to build leading tech companies.

Venture Capital

Peachtree Equity Partners

Peachtree Equity provides subordinated debt and equity securities to middle market companies

Venture Capital

Portal Innovations

Portal Innovations is a venture capital firm that helps exceptional life sciences innovators build their companies where they live. We surround these entrepreneurs with the resources and community they need: Seed capital, fully equipped lab space, and expertise and introductions to other investors and partners.

Venture Capital

RAISE Forum

The RAISE Forum is creating local funding for in-revenue companies based in the Southeast that need an investment round between $0.5MM and $5MM. RAISE is housed in Emory University's Goizueta Business School CEI (Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation). The forum is industry-agnostic.

Venture Capital

Resurgens Technology Partners

Resurgens Technology Partners invests in emerging software and technology-enabled services businesses based in North America.

Venture Capital

Rule 1 Ventures

We are venture builders focused on B2B SaaS and data businesses.

Venture Capital

Shadow Ventures

A venture capital firm that invests in seed stage technology companies to bring innovation to the built environment.

Venture Capital

Shorewind Capital

Shorewind Capital invests in early stage startups that are building the future of humanity. We back founders using frontier tech to create radical shifts in how we operate as humans or address the effects human existence has had on the planet.

Venture Capital

Silicon Road Ventures

We are building the future of commerce through an ecosystem connecting startups, retailers, CPG, investors, and academics.

Venture Capital

Silicon Valley Bank Atlanta - A Division of First Citizens Bank

For more than 35 years, SVB is the only purpose-built bank focused on founders from early-stage to high-growth startups, their investors, and the entire innovation economy.

Venture Capital

Socium Ventures

Socium Ventures is a fund within Cox Enterprises focused on making minority investments in emerging-growth businesses.

Venture Capital

Springtime Ventures

We provide pre-seed and seed stage funding to high-growth startups in healthcare, fintech, logistics/supply chain, and marketplaces. We reach conviction early and then leverage our industry relationships and connections to close rounds faster (so you can get back to building).

Venture Capital

Stanley Ventures

We invest in innovative startups developing technologies that redefine industries. We put Stanley's assets to work to help companies scale their businesses by providing industry expertise, supplier relationships, access to millions of customers, and Stanley Black & Decker’s vast network of brands.

Venture Capital

TTV Capital

TTV invests in fintech businesses that serve the widely varying needs of the financial services sector and the consumers of financial products

Venture Capital

Tech Square Venture

Tech Square Ventures is an Atlanta-based early-stage venture capital firm. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs and help them with what they need most – access to markets and customers.

Venture Capital

TechOperators

We invest in Seed and Series A Cyber and B2B software companies.

Venture Capital

TechSquare Labs

As Atlanta’s leading seed-stage venture fund, we are proud to partner with technical founders, engineers, hackers, and builders that see the world differently. TechSquare Labs helps create unique competitive advantages for our portfolio companies to dramatically accelerate their growth. We invest in novel solutions to complex problems that we believe are defensible.

Venture Capital

Valor Ventures

Valor Ventures invests in hyper growth tech startups outside of tier 1 cities after they have their first customers and are hungry to scale their success

Venture Capital

Vocap Partners

Vocap Partners provides venture capital and operational expertise to early stage technology companies in select high potential verticals, including: B2B Software, Media and Entertainment, Consumer Internet and Healthcare IT.

Venture Capital

Zane Venture Fund

Zane is an early stage venture fund investing in Bold entrepreneurs in the Southeast while rebalancing capital allocation to diverse founders and teams.

Funding & Capital: Ambassadors

Meet the Startup Atlanta board members who serve as ambassadors to the community and help curate the resources in this section.
Allyson Eman
CEO, Venture Atlanta
Jaisa Gooden
‍‍Vice President, Startup Banking
Silicon Valley Bank - A Division of First Citizens Bank

Funding & Capital Section Sponsors
Group of accredited angel investors that provides early-stage, technology entrepreneurs with more than funding. Learn more at angelatlanta.com
Zane is an early stage venture fund investing in bold entrepreneurs in the Southeast while rebalancing capital allocation to diverse founders and teams. Learn more at zanevc.com

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