Investors in California

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Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 that provides capital and strategic support to technology-driven startups across early- to late-stage cycles. It pursues opportunities in AI, digital health, healthcare technologies, sustainability, fintech, consumer and enterprise technology, and other frontier areas, focusing on innovative business models and world-class teams. The firm emphasizes a contrarian, long-term approach and seeks to help entrepreneurs address meaningful societal and economic challenges through science, technology, and design.
Made 594 investments in California

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It provides capital alongside strategic guidance to a select set of companies across information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, supporting them from early ideas through growth and even IPO stages. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships, working closely with leadership teams on product development, company building, and market expansion. Sequoia pursues opportunities at seed, early, and growth stages and maintains a global reach, investing in companies across the United States and other major markets, with interests in AI and other emerging technologies.
Made 720 investments in California

Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It backs technology companies across stages, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software and services, fintech, consumer internet, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and life sciences applications at the intersection of computer science and biology. The firm emphasizes long-term support for entrepreneurs, offering capital and resources to help companies scale, and operates through multiple investment vehicles to fund early and later-stage opportunities. Its portfolio targets information technology, software-enabled businesses, and technology-enabled services, reflecting a commitment to innovation and leadership in American technology.
Made 584 investments in California

New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates is a United States-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across multiple stages, from seed to growth and IPO, and provides strategic support in product development and market expansion. The firm targets sectors including software, AI, consumer technology, digital health, life sciences, and energy technology, and pursues opportunities worldwide. NEA emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders, drawing on domain expertise and a broad network to help portfolio companies scale. It maintains a diverse portfolio across the United States, Asia and other regions, reflecting a global approach to venture investing.
Made 754 investments in California

SOSV

SOSV is a global venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in New Jersey. The firm focuses on seed-to-growth investments in deep tech sectors, including biotech and life sciences, hardware and robotics, and cross-border software with emphasis on markets in Asia. It supports startups from early stages with investment capital as well as resources such as laboratories, collaborative spaces, and expert mentorship to accelerate product development and market traction. SOSV operates purpose-built programs to help portfolio companies raise follow-on funding, scale operations, and reach customers, often through structured matchmaking and access to a global network of investors. With a broad portfolio spanning hundreds of companies worldwide, SOSV aims to foster innovation, build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems, and contribute to sustainable technological advancement.
Made 414 investments in California

Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire. It connects accredited individual investors with startup deals and co-invests alongside established venture capital firms across multiple stages, from seed to growth. The firm provides access to diversified portfolios through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, supported by a large network of community members and individual investors. It invests across sectors and geographies, with a focus on transparency and due diligence in collaborative investments with leading firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. Alumni Ventures operates internationally with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo and has raised substantial capital to back founders with strategic capital and resources.
Made 362 investments in California

Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto–based seed and early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology companies across enterprise software, B2B and B2C platforms, healthtech, sustainability, fintech, edtech, and blockchain. Founded in 2008, the firm pursues a disciplined, decision-science approach to investing, evaluating risk-reward trade-offs and reducing cognitive bias, often co-investing with other angels or VCs to deploy between $500k and $1M per opportunity. Ulu prioritizes diverse founder teams, including women, minority, URM, and immigrant founders, and supports bold ideas with strong growth potential from seed onward. Based in the Bay Area, it has backed a broad portfolio, including unicorns, reflecting a track record of helping startups scale. The firm emphasizes technology-enabled services and internet-centric opportunities.
Made 136 investments in California

General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000, based in San Francisco with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that funds and mentors startups from seed to growth stages. It focuses on enabling innovation across sectors such as consumer, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, crypto, and artificial intelligence by providing capital, strategic guidance, and network support to help portfolio companies scale and create lasting value.
Made 338 investments in California

Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across multiple stages. It focuses on ambitious projects in aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, software, and consumer Internet, among others. The firm has been an early backer of SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook and Airbnb, illustrating a track record of supporting transformative technologies. It pursues a founder-friendly approach that provides substantial support with minimal interference, helping portfolio companies scale while maintaining strategic flexibility.
Made 331 investments in California

Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It specializes in early-stage, growth, and incubation investments, partnering with founders from inception to IPO and beyond. The firm backs entrepreneurs across a broad range of sectors, including technology, digital media, life sciences, healthcare, consumer products and services, software, cybersecurity, and infrastructure, providing strategic guidance and networks to help companies scale and create long-term value.
Made 618 investments in California

SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 1992 that concentrates on seed to early-stage technology investments, notably in software and AI, primarily in the United States. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders and provides strategic support, business development, financing and M&A advice, leveraging its extensive network to offer introductions and resources beyond capital. Its portfolio includes OpenAI, Databricks, Eventbrite, Cedar and Vercel, illustrating a track record of backing transformative technology companies and helping them grow.
Made 562 investments in California

Bossa Invest

Bossa Invest is a venture capital investment firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. It focuses on software as a service investments and provides investment services to clients, informed by market trend analysis, and serves sectors such as finance, technology, and real estate.
Made 337 investments in California

Sand Hill Angels

Sand Hill Angels is a member-driven angel investor group based in Mountain View, California, with a 60-plus member network that supports early-stage technology startups. Founded around 2000, the group provides seed to Series A funding, mentorship, and meaningful connections to customers, partners, and venture capital firms to help startups scale. Typical investments range from $300,000 to $500,000 in rounds with pre-money valuations under $5 million, and it backs companies across sectors such as semiconductors, enterprise software, storage, and communications, as well as clean technology, internet, information sciences, and life sciences including medical devices, diagnostics, and bioinformatics. Sand Hill Angels collaborates with other venture funds and angel organizations to foster the Bay Area ecosystem and broader North American tech growth, sourcing deals and building long-term partnerships.
Made 398 investments in California

Threshold Ventures

Threshold Ventures is a Menlo Park-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs founder-led technology companies across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare, with a high-conviction, hands-on investment approach. The firm provides strategic guidance, operational input, and access to its networks, and it often takes active board seats to support portfolio companies as they develop products, position in the market, hire, and plan go-to-market strategies. Founded in 2019, Threshold focuses on select Series A and other early-stage rounds, aiming to accelerate growth and long-term value for technology-driven businesses.
Made 364 investments in California

Liquid 2 Ventures

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma. It provides seed- and early-stage capital to technology startups, occasionally supporting later rounds such as Series B, and often invests alongside co-investors. The firm emphasizes strategic introductions and hands-on guidance to help portfolio companies scale, with a focus on software, TMT, and other technology sectors. By partnering with founders and other investors, Liquid 2 Ventures aims to align capital with long-term company growth.
Made 243 investments in California

Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm founded in 1965 that invests across seed to growth stages in consumer and enterprise software and related information technology sectors. The firm backs entrepreneurs who redefine markets and often takes board seats to help guide portfolio companies such as Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook, LinkedIn, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage, and Workday. With offices in San Francisco and Wellesley, Greylock supports startups globally and focuses on software-enabled businesses including cloud/SaaS, data analytics, security, and services.
Made 358 investments in California

First Round Capital

First Round Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on pre-seed, seed, and early-stage investments in technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. It aims to build a community of technology entrepreneurs and provides founder-focused services to help companies grow from inception, including hands-on involvement and networking opportunities. The firm has offices in San Francisco and New York and typically makes initial investments around $500,000, with a track record of helping portfolio companies raise follow-on capital and advance to later rounds. Notable portfolio companies include Uber, Square, and Warby Parker.
Made 340 investments in California

Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm founded in 1996, with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva. It backs technology startups across stages from seed to growth in sectors including software, AI, fintech, healthcare, data, media, and consumer services. The firm provides capital and strategic support, helping teams assess business models, scale operations, and navigate financing rounds. Its broad network connects founders with investors, partners, and market opportunities to support growth across geographies. Index Ventures emphasizes long-term founder relationships and hands-on collaboration, offering guidance and resources to help companies reach global markets. It also launched Index Origin, a seed fund designed to support entrepreneurs from day one.
Made 309 investments in California

Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, founded in 1976, that funds technology companies from seed to growth across consumer, enterprise, and life sciences. The firm emphasizes market-driven analysis and active involvement to identify opportunities in areas such as marketplaces, consumer services, software-as-a-service, fintech, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and digital health. Its diverse portfolio spans early-stage startups and later rounds, with notable investments in artificial intelligence, cloud, and life sciences technologies, and it has supported numerous companies through public offerings and acquisitions.
Made 325 investments in California

Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman that manages capital across public and private markets worldwide. The firm focuses on technology, internet, consumer, and financial services sectors, pursuing high-quality growth opportunities through both public equity and private investments. It maintains a research-driven, long-term approach and acts as a registered investment adviser, building partnerships with innovative companies across multiple regions and growth stages.
Made 222 investments in California

Lux Capital

Lux Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing in companies at the intersection of science, technology, and industry. The firm backs ventures applying research across sectors including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, space, and energy, with an emphasis on translating complex innovations into scalable businesses. Lux provides capital together with strategic input on product development, company building, and long-term positioning, and takes an active role to help founders navigate technical and market challenges. The firm evaluates opportunities based on the underlying science, potential industry impact, and feasibility of execution over extended horizons. With offices in New York and Silicon Valley, Lux collaborates with technical founders, researchers, and teams to build durable market leaders and accelerate scientific breakthroughs into real-world applications.
Made 191 investments in California

True Ventures

True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that backs early-stage technology startups. It concentrates on seed and Series A investments and supports founders with a hands-on, long-term approach through the True Platform, a set of programs designed to inspire professional and personal growth. The firm manages multiple funds and has raised billions in capital, backing more than 350 companies and helping to create tens of thousands of jobs worldwide. True Ventures is known for providing operational and strategic support across its portfolio and for a disciplined focus on founders and market-changing ideas. The firm was recognized as Venture Firm of the Year in 2018 by the National Venture Capital Association, reflecting its track record in helping startups scale.
Made 292 investments in California

Greycroft

Greycroft is a venture capital firm that backs technology startups, focusing on the Internet and mobile markets. With offices in New York and Los Angeles, it leverages a broad network in media and technology to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring products to market, and scale successful businesses. Since its inception it has completed more than 200 investments in companies such as Acorns, Venmo, Scopely, Huffington Post, Thrive Market, and Shipt, among others.
Made 204 investments in California

Felicis Ventures

Felicis Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2006. It concentrates on early-stage technology companies, with a founder-first approach that emphasizes substantial support beyond capital, including mentoring and advisory services. The firm backs entrepreneurs seeking to build category-defining products across sectors such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, health, energy, education, and information technology, and it pursues globally oriented opportunities from seed to growth stages. Felicis emphasizes long-term partnerships, trust, and operational value, helping portfolio companies scale, exit, or reach strategic milestones. The firm has backed a broad and diverse portfolio, including notable companies like Shopify, Canva, and Notion, and maintains a track record of helping portfolio companies achieve significant outcomes.
Made 259 investments in California

TSVC

TSVC is a venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California, founded in 2010, that concentrates on early-stage investments in deep technology companies across the United States, Canada, and Asia. The firm backs technically oriented founders in areas such as software as a service, artificial intelligence, fintech, biotechnology, blockchain, and semiconductors, as well as robotics, advanced manufacturing, and energy systems. TSVC has invested in more than 200 early-stage companies and helped build several unicorns, emphasizing close collaboration with founders to translate complex technical ideas into scalable businesses. Its focus aligns with the so-called Physical AI economy, where intelligent machines and autonomous infrastructure reshape the real world. TSVC aims to support entrepreneurs who can define the next generation of technology-driven products and services from Silicon Valley to global markets.
Made 133 investments in California

Gaingels

Gaingels is a venture capital organization focused on supporting LGBTQ+ founders and leaders and their allies. It invests across stages and industries, building a global portfolio of 130+ companies and deploying around $70 million in capital. Beyond funding, Gaingels helps portfolio companies recruit diverse C-suite and board talent and fosters a global community of investors, operators, and entrepreneurs working toward inclusive leadership and positive social change through business.
Made 172 investments in California

Foundation Capital

Foundation Capital is a United States–based venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It backs early-stage and growth-stage startups across software, fintech, consumer technology, digital energy, and related sectors with a founder-centric, hands-on approach and a long-term commitment to portfolio companies. The team consists of former entrepreneurs who seek to partner with founders from day one to help translate ideas into scalable businesses. Foundation Capital has supported a broad set of high-growth ventures and has a track record of helping portfolio companies achieve milestones and exits, including notable roles in the growth of Netflix, LendingClub and Sunrun. The firm manages multiple venture funds and primarily invests in the United States.
Made 304 investments in California

8VC

8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies and build long-term value. Headquartered in San Francisco, the firm pursues industry-wide impact by backing companies across sectors such as healthcare, AI, cybersecurity, enterprise software, manufacturing, logistics, and energy, spanning seed to later-stage rounds. It emphasizes long-term partnerships and aims to enable industry transformation by supporting platforms and innovations that can replace legacy infrastructure. The firm also supports programs and communities that foster entrepreneurship and positive-sum value creation. Through its investments, 8VC seeks to advance breakthroughs that address critical challenges in life sciences and healthcare, while pursuing responsible growth and societal benefit.
Made 189 investments in California

Craft Ventures

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that backs early-stage and growth companies across consumer, enterprise, and financial services, with a focus on business-to-business technology and scalable business models. The firm emphasizes strong founding teams and long-term partnerships, leveraging a team of investors and operators to support founders in building world-changing companies.
Made 112 investments in California

Mayfield

Mayfield is a global venture capital firm founded in 1969 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with over $2.5 billion under management. It focuses on investing in early- and growth-stage technology companies across information technology, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, consumer technology, semiconductors, and related sectors, including operations in India through Mayfield India. The firm provides long-term capital and strategic guidance to founders, helping with product strategy, scaling operations, and market expansion, and it emphasizes a hands-on, people-first approach that connects portfolio companies to customers, talent, investors, and strategic partners. Since inception, Mayfield has backed hundreds of companies, generating numerous IPOs and mergers or acquisitions.
Made 300 investments in California

U.S. Venture Partners

U.S. Venture Partners is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology and healthcare companies. With more than thirty years of operation, it helps entrepreneurs transform ideas into growth companies, focusing on enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, e-commerce, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The firm targets startups in information technology and healthcare that can scale in the United States, and in some cases Israel, and it emphasizes collaboration with teams that include former entrepreneurs, technologists, executives, and industry experts. USVP invests in software, healthcare, cybersecurity, and related technology-enabled sectors, supporting portfolio companies through early development and scale-up.
Made 290 investments in California

Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company headquartered in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and markets a broad portfolio of consumer electronics, IT and mobile devices, and advanced components. The company sells smartphones, tablets, televisions, home appliances, printers, and PCs, and supplies memory and storage products, semiconductors, displays, and telecommunications infrastructure. It operates a leading semiconductor business and a dominant memory chip and display supply chain, supported by a wide network of global research and development efforts focused on AI, 5G, energy storage, and next generation materials. Samsung Electronics coordinates manufacturing, services, and repair capabilities and engages in open innovation with startups and academic partners through its research centers and corporate venture initiatives. It pursues growth across consumer, enterprise, and industrial segments and aims to deliver integrated device solutions and services worldwide, with emphasis on sustainability and governance to create long-term value for customers, employees, and society.
Made 208 investments in California

Tech Coast Angels

Tech Coast Angels is an Irvine, California-based angel investor group and one of the largest in the United States, with more than 300 members across five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, the Central Coast, and the Inland Empire. Members fund and mentor early-stage, high-growth companies across a broad range of sectors including life sciences, biotech, information technology, software, hardware, internet, financial services, consumer products, services, and cleantech, primarily in the United States and Canada. The group provides capital and guidance, leveraging an extensive network to help portfolio companies access potential investors, customers, strategic partners, and management talent. Tech Coast Angels has been recognized by CB Insights as a top U.S. angel group and for network centrality, reflecting its breadth of connections in the early-stage ecosystem.
Made 307 investments in California

Upfront Ventures

Upfront Ventures is a California-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1996, with its headquarters in Los Angeles and a team serving technology startups nationwide and internationally. It invests primarily in seed and Series A rounds and across early to late stages, with about half of its capital deployed in Southern California and the balance across the United States, Europe, and Israel. The firm emphasizes a collaborative, hands-on approach, offering honest counsel and long-term partnerships to founders to help them scale. Notable portfolio companies include Ring, TrueCar, Bird, Maker Studios, GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP.
Made 208 investments in California

Initialized Capital

Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups, with a primary focus on seed investments. It provides long-term support to founders through mentorship and resources to help companies progress from inception to growth. The firm invests across a diverse set of technology sectors, including software, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, sustainability, health, consumer technology, and crypto, reflecting a broad technology orientation and commitment to disruptive innovation.
Made 212 investments in California

Redpoint Ventures

Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in California. It backs seed, early and growth-stage technology companies across internet, cloud, software, consumer, fintech, healthcare, blockchain and infrastructure sectors. It provides capital and strategic support to portfolio companies, assisting with product development, go-to-market execution and scaling, and it actively sources opportunities, conducts due diligence and partners with founders to navigate market opportunities. The firm maintains a content hub and thought leadership resources to inform its entrepreneur and investor network and engages in ecosystem content. Redpoint operates through multiple funds and has a U.S.-focused footprint with activity across the United States.
Made 296 investments in California

Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1987 and headquartered in San Francisco. It focuses on supporting technology and healthcare startups at the seed and early stages, investing across sectors such as fintech, enterprise software and cloud, marketplaces, frontier technologies, biopharma, digital health and medtech. The firm maintains an international footprint with offices in Israel and India and backs entrepreneurs by leveraging a broad network of strategic partners, customers and follow-on investors to help transform innovative ideas into global companies.
Made 252 investments in California

Hard Yaka

Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada. It engages in private equity and venture investments, focusing on technology and financial services sectors, including early-stage investments in exchange-related startups and opportunities in buyouts and distressed assets, often pursuing majority stakes.
Made 44 investments in California

DCVC

DCVC is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California. It concentrates on deep-tech opportunities across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense and security, and other advanced technologies. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser (RIA).
Made 240 investments in California

Uncorrelated Ventures

Uncorrelated Ventures is an early‑stage venture capital firm that specializes in infrastructure software and adjacent technology sectors, including decentralized finance, cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, and data infrastructure. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it backs early‑stage companies whose products underpin programmable networks and modern finance. The firm has built a portfolio of more than 100 companies across traditional and decentralized ecosystems, reflecting a focus on infrastructure‑driven innovations that enable scalable, secure technology platforms.
Made 32 investments in California

Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a Boston-based technology-focused investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies since its founding in 1983. It pursues opportunities across software (application and infrastructure), consumer and industrial technology, and life science tools, supporting companies from early stages through growth and buyouts. The firm combines venture, growth equity, and private equity approaches to help portfolio companies scale, often leveraging sector expertise and a collaborative, hands-on approach. Its global reach includes investments and operations in North America, Europe, and Israel, with services that extend beyond capital to include talent acquisition and business development.
Made 219 investments in California

Venrock

Venrock is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It focuses on technology and healthcare, investing in seed and early-stage companies in the United States and pursuing life sciences and emerging technologies. The firm provides funding and strategic guidance to entrepreneurs with the aim of building enduring, high-growth companies. Its portfolio has included notable technology and biotech names such as Apple, Illumina, Gilead Sciences, and DoubleClick. Venrock maintains offices in Palo Alto, California, and New York, and emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders to accelerate innovation.
Made 316 investments in California

FJ Labs

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm concentrates on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups and is stage-agnostic, investing across seed and Series A rounds. It seeks scalable companies with strong unit economics and potential to become market leaders, often co-investing with other global funds to broaden its impact. FJ Labs emphasizes rapid decision-making and leverages its broad network to support portfolio companies in fundraising and growth, helping startups scale across large markets and ecosystems.
Made 166 investments in California

ICONIQ Capital

ICONIQ Capital is a global multi-family office and investment firm based in San Francisco that provides financial advisory and family office services while managing direct investments across asset classes. The firm focuses on technology-driven opportunities, including enterprise software, fintech, information technology, artificial intelligence, and healthcare IT, and pursues growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate. It serves influential families and organizations, acting as a trusted advisor to facilitate strategic relationships, governance, and impact initiatives. ICONIQ operates with a network of offices in San Francisco, London, Palo Alto, Singapore, and New York, and maintains a registered investment adviser framework. Through growth platforms such as ICONIQ Growth, the firm supports early-stage to later-stage software and information technology companies, leveraging a broad ecosystem of leaders and founders to accelerate value creation. The company emphasizes a global reach and a disciplined, long-term investment approach.
Made 108 investments in California

CRV

CRV, formerly Charles River Ventures, is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1970. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, it maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Menlo Park, California. The firm targets seed to Series B investments across technology, consumer goods and healthcare in North America. CRV employs a hands-on, value-added approach, acting as a trusted partner to founders throughout a company's growth. As one of the oldest active venture firms, CRV has managed about $1.5 billion and supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance and operational insight to help them scale from inception onward.
Made 229 investments in California

Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 that concentrates on early-stage software investments. Based in Portola Valley (with offices in Menlo Park), it backs seed to Series B rounds for United States software companies, including software as a service, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence, and consumer subscription sectors. The firm emphasizes active partnership, offering more than capital through implementation and growth support to help portfolio companies scale from early traction to sustainable growth. Its activity spans consumer internet, mobile, and software verticals, with diverse check sizes across multiple funds aimed at helping entrepreneurs build long-term value.
Made 223 investments in California

Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a San Francisco-based generalist early-stage venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Founded in 2011, it invests across security, fintech, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy, supporting founders developing technology-driven businesses at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture. The firm emphasizes long-term growth and a conviction-driven approach, offering resources, connections, experiences, and empathy to help build resilient companies. Notable investments include Airtable, Gusto, OpenPhone, Ro, Solana, and Teamshares.
Made 218 investments in California

Alchemist Accelerator

Alchemist Accelerator is a seed-stage enterprise-focused startup accelerator founded in 2012 and based in California. It runs a six-month program that selects technically strong founding teams and provides mentorship, structured coaching, fundraising support, and seed investment of tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for notes. Backers include Cisco Systems, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures, SAP Ventures and US Venture Partners, offering access to a broad mentor network and corporate partners. The program concentrates on business-to-business software and hardware aimed at enterprise customers, helping startups accelerate product development, customer traction, and fundraising.
Made 206 investments in California

OrbiMed

OrbiMed is a global healthcare investment firm based in New York that funds companies across the healthcare spectrum. It uses multiple strategies, including private equity for startups and growth-stage companies, private credit and royalty financing for intellectual property and medical diagnostics, and public equity investments. The firm targets biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and health IT, supporting development of new therapies and health technologies. OrbiMed operates internationally with offices in major markets and manages substantial assets across public and private investments, staffed by a team of professionals to identify opportunities and support portfolio companies.
Made 167 investments in California

PLG Ventures

PLG Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California, that backs technology-enabled startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. Founded in 2015, it emphasizes hands-on partnership and supports founders by developing leadership skills and laying a scalable foundation for growth. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies and assists portfolio companies with fundraising, strategic planning, and business development to navigate early challenges and accelerate progress toward milestones.
Made 18 investments in California