Golden Seeds

What is Golden Seeds?

Golden Seeds is an influential angel investor network with a primary focus on supporting and investing in women-led businesses. Founded in 2005 and based in New York City, Golden Seeds is recognized as one of the largest and most active early-stage investment firms in the United States.

With a keen interest in promoting gender-diversity within the entrepreneurial ecosystem, Golden Seeds primarily targets opportunities within the fields of software, including web marketplaces and SaaS; IT and TMT; media; biotech; agrotech; business solutions; hardware and manufacturing; IoT and wearables; cleantech; A.I. and big data; healthtech and fitness; analytics; cloud services and infrastructure; medical devices and hospital services; healthcare and wellness; investment management; mobile technology; consumer products; and sectors which focus on women.The firm operates with a broad investment thesis, empowering women entrepreneurs, and fostering innovation through inclusion and diverse leadership.

They pursue investments in both B2B and B2C technology, healthcare, and consumer products sectors. Their funding strategy includes multiple stages, ranging from pre-seed to Series B, with a minimum investment of $250,000, a maximum of $2,000,000, and a sweet spot at around $1,000,000. Golden Seeds is distinctive as an angel network but also has annual funds at its disposal, ensuring a more substantial support system for the companies they invest in.

They manage assets worth $26,500,000, which enables them to have a substantial impact on the firms they choose to back.Golden Seeds leverages its investment to drive growth and intends to help create conditions where more women can build successful businesses. The firm's Knowledge Institute offers investor education that sets the standard for teaching best practices in angel investing, further enriching the environment for emergent companies. They have a national footprint, with chapters and members across 27 states in the U.S., which allows them to find and nurture promising women-led enterprises nationwide.

What they say:

Golden Seeds is an investment firm dedicated to pursuing market returns through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in NYC, Golden Seeds has chapters in Arizona, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, New Jersey, and Silicon Valley.

What we look for: We invest in Deep Tech, SaaS, Healthcare, Biotech, Consumer, Business to Business, Enterprise Services, AI

How we help: While our support begins with capital, it doesn’t end there. We are passionate about supporting our portfolio companies by:- Leveraging the Golden Seeds network to expedite growth- Providing strategic and financial guidance- Helping build the board, advisory and executive teams- Introducing follow-on capitalWe offer free office hours and information sessions with advice from investor members and legal professionals. All are welcome: https://goldenseeds.com/entrepreneurs/office-hours/