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Accel

Founded in 1983, Accel is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies operating in the cloud, software as a service (SaaS), consumer, enterprise, information technology, healthcare, fintech, security, media, and business products & services sectors. The firm has additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Banglore.

Andreessen Horowitz

Founded in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm incubates and invests in startups. The firm seeks to invest in sectors such as bio healthcare, artificial intelligence, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, infrastructure, and in companies building toward American dynamism. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Lightspeed

Founded in 2000, Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm has regional offices in Israel, India, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe. The firm seeks to invest in the enterprise, health, fintech, and consumer sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

NFX

Founded in 2014, NFX Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Fransisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the bio, gaming, generative artificial intelligence, property technology, space, financial technology, marketplaces, and cryptocurrency sectors across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Israel. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Acrew Capital

Founded in 2019, Acrew Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm seeks to invest in financial services, cybersecurity, data, augmented reality, virtual reality, web 3.0, and cryptocurrency sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Norwest Venture Partners

Founded in 1961, Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital investment firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm prefers to invest in early to later-stage companies in the United States, India, and Israel operating in the technology, information services, business services, financial services, enterprise, healthcare, and consumer products and services sectors.

Forerunner Ventures

Founded in 2010, Forerunner Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the consumer sector. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Founders Fund

Founded in 2005, Founders Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Susa Ventures

Founded in 2013, Susa Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies operating in the enterprise software, finance technology, healthcare, consumer technology, logistics, and frontier technology sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

General Catalyst

Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to make investments in companies operating in consumer, enterprise, fintech, crypto, and health assurance sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Bessemer Venture Partners

Founded in 1911, Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in artificial intelligence & machine learning, biotech, cloud, consumer, cybersecurity, crypto, deep tech, developer, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, and vertical software sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Kleiner Perkins

Founded in 1972, Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital investment firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm prefers to invest in business products, business services, consumer products, consumer services, financial services, healthcare, information technology, SaaS, manufacturing, life sciences, b2b payments, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and technology sectors in the United States, Canada, Middle East, United Kingdom, North America, and Mainland China. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Notable Capital

Founded in 2000, Notable Capital is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on early-to-growth stage companies in the cloud and data infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Soma Capital

Founded in 2015, Soma Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in B2B SaaS, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and the consumer sector based in Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Index Ventures

Founded in 1996, Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in artificial intelligence, machine learning, business applications, data, entertainment, fintech, the future of work, healthcare, media, mobility, open source, retail, security, and talent sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Initialized Capital

Founded in 2011, Initialized Capital Management is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in the technology, mobile, software, and design sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). They have Initialized investments across all sectors and are an early backer of companies like Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling, Flexport, and Flock Safety. With $3 Billion+ in assets under management, our portfolio includes 175+ companies worth close to $200 Billion in company valuations, with 25+ valued at $1 Billion or more.

Kindred Ventures

Founded in 2014, Kindred Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in consumer products, consumer services, energy, healthcare, information technology, TMT, e-commerce, blockchain, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology-based sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

IVP

Founded in 1980, IVP is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm has additional offices in London and San Francisco. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, consumer, digital health, enterprise infrastructure, fintech, cryptocurrency, gaming, and go-to-market sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Headline

Founded in 1998, Headline VC is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the fintech, e-commerce, software, digital health, developer tools, open-source, media, digital innovation, and consumer services sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Khosla Ventures

Founded in 2004, Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the consumer, enterprise, fintech, frontier, medical technology & diagnostics, digital health, financial technology, digital health, therapeutics, sustainability and impact sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Sequoia Capital

Founded in 1972, Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm seeks to invest in early to growth stage companies operating in the information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial service, internet, energy, media, and retail sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Craft Ventures

Founded in 2017, Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in business products, business services, consumer products, consumer services, information technology, e-commerce, SaaS, cryptocurrency, and blockchain sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Redpoint Ventures

Founded in 1999, Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Woodside, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the application, blockchain, consumer, financial technology, healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

First Round Capital

Founded in 2004, First Round Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in the enterprise, fintech, healthcare, consumer, hardware, artificial intelligence, and web3 sectors.

Obvious Ventures

Founded in 2014, Obvious Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests in industries across planetary, human, and economic health. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Felicis

Founded in 2006, Felicis is a venture capital investment firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. The firm focuses on early-stage investments.

Menlo Ventures

Founded in 1976, Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, later-stage, and growth-stage companies operating in the computer hardware, software, big data, fintech, and healthcare sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Ribbit Capital

Founded in 2012, Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, financial services, mobile, insurance technology, and cryptocurrency sectors based in the United States, East Asia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the Indian regions. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Tribe Capital

Founded in 2018, Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm prefers to invest in seed to growth-stage technology companies. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

Greylock

Founded in 1965, Greylock is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Over 80% of Greylock's investments are the first check: Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A. Many start on a whiteboard. Focused on AI-first companies. Greylock partners selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence.

Greenoaks

Greenoaks is a leading global investment firm based in San Francisco. Greenoaks makes concentrated, long-term investments in enduring technology businesses around the world.

GIC

Established in 1981 to manage Singapore's foreign reserves, GIC strives to achieve good long-term real returns on assets under management to preserve and enhance the value of Singapore's reserves.

TCV

For nearly thirty years, TCV has partnered with global, category-defining, technology companies as a leading growth equity investor. Leveraging its deep industry expertise and strategic resources, TCV’s mission is to provide long-term capital and support to high-quality management teams across their growth journey.

Human Capital

Human Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm. They build and invest in companies that define the world’s most critical industries. Human Capital partners with founders to assemble teams that create exceptional businesses.

SV Angel

SV Angel (SVA) is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with their founder-first approach have driven their strategy.

Cowboy Ventures

Cowboy Ventures is a seed-focused venture capital firm dedicated to supporting extraordinary founders building legendary technology companies.

Y Combinator

Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 4,500 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.

Next Legacy Partners

Next Legacy amplifies the impact of the diverse community of philanthropists, athletes, cultural luminaries, venture capitalists, and founders through outsized venture capital returns.

Benchmark

Benchmark is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Woodside investing in and working alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure and enterprise software.

Goodwater Capital

At Goodwater, we empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good. We believe consumer technology is the most powerful force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale.

Omega Venture Partners

Omega Venture Partners is a premier technology investment firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Omega invests in rapidly growing businesses that leverage AI, ML, Data, and Automation to deliver transformative solutions. The firm employs a thematic investment strategy to identify large market opportunities and the next generation of market leaders. Omega's investment focus is on businesses with exceptional products and services that deliver unparalleled value and delight to their customers.

Blank Ventures

Blank is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at the edge of fintech and commerce.

Raine Ventures

Raine manages strategies across growth equity and venture capital, with current assets under management in excess of $3.4 billion. Our growth and venture strategies seek investments in fast-growing TMT enterprises.

Spark Capital

We are Spark Capital, investors in products we love by creators we admire, including Affirm, Carta, Cruise, Discord, Oculus, Plaid, Postmates, Slack, Twitter, and Wayfair. We know there are no playbooks or formulas for success and are here to help founders win their own way.

Amity Ventures

Amity Ventures is a people-focused firm that supports founders of technology companies in building category-defining businesses. Based in San Francisco, CA, the partners at Amity have invested in over fifty companies across all stages of company growth throughout their years in business together.

Base10 Partners

Base10 is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who are bringing automation to traditional sectors of the economy - what we call automation of the real economy.

DST Global

DST Global is one of the leading Internet investment firms globally. Its investments include some of the world’s fastest growing and most valuable companies.

Pear VC

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.

Unusual Ventures

Unusual Ventures is raising the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors. We enable startups with the hands on support and expertise they need to be successful during their early stage journey. Unusual Ventures is an early-stage firm that invests in both enterprise and consumer startups.

Recursive Ventures

Recursive Ventures is a San Francisco based Micro VC fund investing in US and Israeli Pre-seed and Seed Tech Startups disrupting industries through use of Data and Artificial Intelligence.

NewView Capital

NewView Capital (NVC) is a venture firm dedicated to driving long-term value in the growth stage. With $3 billion in assets under management, NVC tailors capital to the needs of high-potential technology companies and partner investors, investing on a primary, secondary, or hybrid basis.

Insight Partners

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries.

Refactor

Seed VC investing in hard tech

Uncork Capital

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.

Altos Ventures

Founded in 1996, Altos Ventures is a technology investment firm based in Silicon Valley. Through patient and pragmatic investing, Altos partners with early to growth stage technology companies operating in consumer and enterprise sectors, with the goal of building durable and compounding businesses over decades.

Munich Re Ventures

Munich Re Ventures (MRV) is the venture capital group of Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurance company, and a leading global provider of primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions.

DCVC

DCVC and its principals have backed brilliant people changing global-scale industries for over twenty years, helping create tens of billions of dollars of wealth for founders, employees, and our investors while also making the world a markedly better place.

NextView Ventures

Seed stage investors who champion founders who want to redesign the Everyday Economy.

Sierra Ventures

SIERRA Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in the future of Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over four decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Fortune 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs worldwide.

Bloomberg Beta

Bloomberg Beta is an early stage venture capital firm with $375M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.

Cambrian

fund & community for founders + builders in fintech

Eclipse

Eclipse was founded with a mission to power the Industrial Evolution. Since 2015, we’ve helped entrepreneurs build exceptional companies that make physical industries more efficient, resilient, and profitable.