Gaingels

gaingels.com

Gaingels is dedicated to fostering social change through business and creating a more diverse, inclusive and accessible venture ecosystem at all levels of leadership by ensuring that diverse and underrepresented (including LGBTQ+) leaders of high-growth companies have access to capital.

Check Size

Not specified

Stages

Pre Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage

Focus Areas

Ai Ml, Enterprise Saas, Fintech

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Investment Thesis

Gaingels is amongst the largest investors in the world aiming to show that equity of access and representation in venture capital delivers positive returns. They co-invest with select venture capital leads in companies resolved on building diverse and inclusive teams, seeking to drive top returns while influencing the ecosystem and representing a diverse group of investors that include the LGBTQ+ community and its allies within the capital stack of portfolio companies.

What Sets Them Apart

Amongst the most active LGBTQIA+/Allies venture investors in the world with explicit focus on LGBTQ+ representation
Large community-based syndicate model with 4,200+ individual members investing collectively without minimum yearly commitments
Co-investment approach alongside top-tier VCs rather than leading rounds
Comprehensive Venture Inclusion Program funded by 50% of management fees from institutional funds
Board Access Program that has assisted 50+ portfolio companies in recruiting diverse directors
Gaingels Letter framework asking portfolio companies to commit to diversity, non-discrimination, and inclusion policies
Scholarship program providing $5,000 grants to LGBTQIA+ and underrepresented students, with 99 scholarships issued 2020-2023
Portfolio of 2,400+ companies across multiple sectors with significant exits including IPOs and acquisitions