Harlem Capital

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Harlem Capital invests $1M-$3M in Pre-Seed and Seed rounds out of their $134M Fund II, targeting high-quality management teams with disruptive business models solving important problems in markets of $1B+ with positive demand drivers.

Check Size

$1M - $3M

Stages

Pre Seed, Seed

Focus Areas

Enterprise Saas, Vertical Saas, Fintech

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Investment Thesis

Harlem Capital is on a mission to back the next generation of winners by investing in founders from all backgrounds, genders, and walks of life. They aim not only to invest capital but to develop an ecosystem of overlooked founders, investors, and companies. The firm believes that good investments are often simple solutions to difficult problems, and they strive to provide the most value-add per invested dollar while being industry agnostic in their approach to early-stage companies.

What Sets Them Apart

Explicit commitment to backing overlooked founders across all backgrounds and demographics
Ecosystem-building approach beyond capital deployment - developing a new generation of diverse founders and investors
Industry-agnostic investment thesis applied to early-stage companies with similar development needs
High value-add focus with emphasis on strong post-investment support (40% of Managing Partner's time on founder/portfolio support)
Long-term talent pipeline through 25+ cohorts of their internship program (146 interns across 22,870 applicants)
Multi-city presence with 60+ investments across 10+ cities
Thought leadership through quarterly reports on diverse founder funding landscape