Lerer Hippeau is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that focuses on early-stage investments. The firm backs seed and pre-seed companies across a broad range of sectors including software, information technology, communications and media, healthcare technology, fintech, consumer and hardware, among others. It typically supports founders through the earliest stages, offering capital and strategic guidance to help build scalable businesses in the United States, with a concentration in the New York metro area. Lerer Hippeau emphasizes partnering with entrepreneurs who demonstrate product vision and customer insight, aiming to help portfolio companies grow from idea to market. The firm maintains an active portfolio and an operational approach that includes ongoing involvement to assist companies as they scale.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.

Founder Collective is a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs who have built and exited technology companies. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in New York, the firm makes early investments across the United States and globally. It is industry-agnostic but prefers ventures with an information technology component, including software and TMT-enabled businesses. The firm focuses on supporting founders at the seed and early stages, drawing on the experience of its partners who have firsthand startup experience.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, it concentrates on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with notable focus areas including fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners manages over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies achieving an IPO. The firm combines capital with hands-on, right-sized software expertise to support portfolio companies on their growth journey from first investment to IPO.

Greycroft is a venture capital firm based in New York and Los Angeles that concentrates on technology startups, with a focus on the Internet and mobile markets. The firm uses its extensive media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring products to market, and scale successful businesses. Since inception Greycroft has invested in more than 200 companies and manages over $1 billion in capital. Its investment scope spans consumer internet, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise software, reflecting a broad approach to funding early- and growth-stage ventures in technology sectors.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

RRE Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies, primarily in seed and Series A rounds, across a broad range of sectors. Founded in 1994, the firm looks for innovative, scalable business models and supports companies aiming to leverage technology to create value. Its investment scope spans artificial intelligence, climate, consumer technology, cryptocurrency, enterprise software and services, financial technology, healthcare, media, real estate, robotics, and space, with activity across the United States and Canada.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. It supports portfolio companies with momentum and mentorship to accelerate growth toward long-term success and typically engages across seed to growth stages, potentially taking minority or majority stakes. The firm targets a broad range of sectors enabled by software and technology, including consumer, enterprise, fintech, crypto, healthcare IT, and related areas, and maintains a multi-region presence with offices in North America and Europe to back companies as they scale globally.

FirstMark Capital is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2008 that backs early-stage technology companies. It collaborates with exceptional founders to build iconic enterprise and consumer software and platform companies and has supported notable businesses such as Pinterest, Shopify, DraftKings, Discord, Airbnb, StubHub, Riot Games, and InVision.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company providing a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and consumer finance, and Institutional Clients Group, which covers wholesale banking, investment banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, research, corporate lending, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a global footprint across regions including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America, and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility initiatives.

Torch Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs consumer technology companies and the infrastructure layers that power them. It supports visionary founders using technology to transform how consumers and businesses operate, focusing on opportunities in the consumer and technology sectors.

Primary Venture Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in New York that invests in technology companies from pre-seed through Series A, with a global reach. It backs companies across B2B SaaS, fintech, healthcare, infrastructure, and supply chain, including notable portfolio companies such as Alloy, Chief, Electric, K Health, Slice, and Vestwell. The firm employs a low-volume, high-conviction approach and dedicates substantial resources to operational support through an Impact team that helps with hiring, customer acquisition, and fundraising to accelerate growth. A broad Expert Network of over 200 seasoned operators, a Talent Program, and advisory services in finance, market development, and content marketing equip founders to build world-class teams and scale. Primary partners with portfolio companies to position them for Series A and beyond, leveraging hands-on guidance and strategic networks.

BoxGroup is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups, typically investing in pre-seed to Series A rounds. It supports companies across consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life sciences, marketplaces, and related sectors, prioritizing teams with strong vision and momentum. The firm seeks entrepreneurs launching movements in existing markets or creating new ones and aims to help category-defining businesses at the outset. While geographically active in major innovation hubs, BoxGroup evaluates opportunities across the United States and beyond, with a preference for early involvement and smaller initial checks.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.

Union Square Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that funds technology startups across early, growth, and late stages. It concentrates on internet-native opportunities at the applications layer, internet services, and web services that generate large networks and network effects, with an emphasis on software, fintech, e-commerce, media, mobile, and related sectors. The firm typically makes initial investments around one million dollars, with occasional larger early-stage bets of two to three million, and it aims to deploy as much as twenty million dollars in a single company. Founded in 2003, Union Square Ventures operates globally with investments in companies based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and elsewhere, seeking scalable businesses that leverage information technology to transform markets and create significant network value.

New Enterprise Associates is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across stages and geographies, supporting startups from seed to growth. The firm operates globally with investments in the United States, Asia, and Brazil among others, and has a long track record of portfolio IPOs and acquisitions. It has over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital.

Notation Capital is a Brooklyn-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and early-stage technology startups, often partnering with technically led founding teams in New York. It provides capital and hands-on support to help ventures go to market and scale, backing companies across software, AI, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, health tech, education technology, infrastructure, logistics, and climate tech. Initial checks commonly range from around $100,000 to $350,000, with total commitments typically in the low hundreds of thousands to a few hundred thousand dollars in US-based rounds. The firm emphasizes operational involvement to accelerate product development and market traction and concentrates its activity in the United States, particularly the New York region.

Gaingels is a venture investment organization focused on LGBTQ+-founded and led companies and their allies, investing across stages from pre-seed to pre-IPO and maintaining a global portfolio. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it operates as a syndicate with more than 130 portfolio companies and around $70 million deployed. The organization supports inclusive leadership by backing ventures that promote diverse C-suite and board representation and actively assists portfolio companies in recruiting diverse executive talent. It also fosters a global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who pursue positive social change through business and successful investments.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is a New York City-based technology accelerator and early-stage venture fund that supports startups through a mentor-driven program, free office space, cloud hosting credits, and access to professional services from partner organizations. Since launching in 2011, ERA has invested in more than 350 startups, and its alumni have collectively raised over $2 billion in capital and surpassed $10 billion in market capitalization. The program makes an initial investment of $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in exchange for 6% equity and operates two four-month cohorts each year. ERA has a portfolio across multiple industries, with notable investments including Glia, TripleLift, Katapult, Thirty Madison, Nayya, Order, Bespoke Post, and Scentbird, among others. By combining hands-on mentorship with strategic resources, ERA aims to help early-stage companies scale and reach their growth milestones.

RiverPark Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2006 that backs early-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on sectors including fintech, edtech, ecommerce, software as a service, and hospitality, and emphasizes enterprise technology and shifts in consumer behavior. It operates as a registered investment adviser and aims to support startups through capital and guidance as they scale.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.

Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 1911 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It backs startups across seed to growth stages, focusing on software, cloud, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer and healthcare technologies, and high-growth business models. The firm operates internationally, supporting portfolio companies from early product development through scale, and has backed well-known names such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Wix and others. BVP emphasizes helping founders establish durable foundations and guides companies through multiple growth phases, leveraging hands-on operational support, strategic networks, and cross-border expertise. With a diversified approach that includes consumer, enterprise and deep-tech investments, the firm seeks to build lasting companies that matter across global markets.

Thrive Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 that focuses on internet, software, and technology-enabled companies. It invests across stages in software, internet, and tech-enabled sectors and supports portfolio companies with capital and strategic guidance to help them scale in dynamic markets.

First Round Capital is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm that backs technology startups from pre-seed through Series A. It offers capital, a founder-focused community, and services designed to help companies grow from inception, with partners who take an active role in portfolio companies. The firm invests nationally across sectors including healthcare, consumer technology, fintech, hardware, artificial intelligence, and web3, with offices in San Francisco and New York. It emphasizes resources beyond funding and has adopted a diversity term sheet rider to promote inclusive entrepreneurship.

Great Oaks Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2005. The firm makes seed and Series A investments in tech-based startups across software, healthcare, financial services, marketplaces, and enterprise sectors.

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London and Bangalore. It funds early- and growth-stage technology companies across software, cloud, SaaS, consumer, enterprise IT and related sectors, and it supports portfolio companies as they scale internationally. With a global network and more than three decades of experience, Accel seeks to help entrepreneurs build world-class, category-defining businesses. Notable investments include Atlassian, Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Braintree, Cloudera and Qualtrics, among others. Accel operates multiple funds and programs to back companies at different stages, continuing a long track record of backing ambitious technology founders around the world.

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York City. It focuses on early-stage investments across technology-enabled sectors, supporting founders with flexible, founder-centric backing. The firm has backed high-profile consumer and software companies such as Twitter, Discord, Oculus, Warby Parker, Tumblr, Niantic, and Anthropic, reflecting a tendency toward ambitious products and teams that reshape consumer, media, and technology markets.

New York Ventures is the venture capital arm of Empire State Development, the state of New York’s economic development agency. It supports innovation and economic growth across communities in New York by investing in startups and emerging companies and coordinating with state programs that foster technology, job creation, and regional development, including START-UP NY, Innovation Hot Spots, the Regional Economic Development Councils, Centers of Advanced Technology and Centers of Excellence networks, and the SUNY 2020 Initiative.

C2 Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that makes early-stage investments, typically at pre-seed and seed rounds. It targets robotics and enterprise software solutions for legacy industries, often described as dirty, dull, and dangerous. The firm emphasizes hands-on, operational support and positions itself as an operator-led investment platform, surrounding portfolio companies with founders, builders, and operators to help them execute and scale.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It pursues investments across multiple sectors, including information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, and provides early to growth-stage funding coupled with strategic support to help founders build lasting, category-defining companies.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital and angel investment firm that supports early-stage startups across the United States. Founded in 2009, the firm provides business development, financing, mergers and acquisitions guidance, and other strategic advice to portfolio companies, leveraging its networks to help founders at critical inflection points. SV Angel focuses on software and TMT sectors, including software-oriented consumer and enterprise initiatives, and acts as a hands-on partner to help startups grow, form strategic partnerships, secure financing, and pursue M&A opportunities.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in London with additional offices in San Francisco and Geneva, supporting entrepreneurs shaping technology-driven global businesses by investing across early and growth stages in software, TMT, and related sectors including artificial intelligence, data, fintech, healthcare, and mobility, and partnering with founders to scale companies globally.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across stages. The firm focuses on transformational technologies and has supported early backers of SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb. It pursues a founder-friendly approach that provides significant support with minimal interference, and it invests globally across sectors including software, artificial intelligence, aerospace, energy, healthcare, cybersecurity, biotech, and information technology. The firm targets opportunities from seed to growth stages and emphasizes solving difficult problems through innovative technology.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

Two Sigma Ventures is a New York City-based early-stage venture capital firm backed by Two Sigma Investments. It provides capital and access to a proprietary network of experts and startup resources to help data- and computing-driven entrepreneurs build the future. The firm focuses on seed to early-stage opportunities across sectors including infrastructure tools, healthcare, real estate, consumer hardware, information technology, artificial intelligence, big data, biotechnology, and financial technology, leveraging the parent company's data-driven engineering capabilities.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Israel. The firm backs early and growth stage start-ups across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, healthtech, cleantech, and information technology, and pursues opportunities in the United States, Asia, and Israel. It funds a broad range of rounds, including seed, early, later, and expansion, and also provides debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed focuses on helping entrepreneurs scale through capital, strategic guidance, and operational support, and maintains a diversified portfolio across enterprise, consumer, big data, mobile, and internet-enabled sectors.

Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley that funds seed- and early-stage technology and science startups. It concentrates on deep tech across the physical and life sciences, investing in biochemistry, material science, electronics, infrastructure, aerospace, satellites, drones, and space technologies, as well as software, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, genomics and synthetic biology. The firm takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build high-growth companies and has a track record of launching more than 20 portfolio companies. With a technically engaged approach, Lux supports portfolio progress by leveraging deep domain insight and industry connections to drive leadership and scale.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

Everywhere Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2017. It operates as a community-powered, early-stage investor that combines capital, mentorship, and operational experience from founders and operators across ten micro funds. The firm funds pre-seed startups globally, with emphasis on purpose-driven teams in the money, health, and work verticals, and typically participates in the first financing round. Its limited partners include more than 500 founders and operators who provide hands-on guidance and contribute to the fund's capital. The model centers on founders helping founders, aiming to accelerate the next generation of entrepreneurs through a collaborative platform rather than a traditional fund structure.

Viola Group is an Israel-based technology-focused investment group with multiple dedicated arms, including Viola Ventures, Viola Growth, Viola Credit, Viola Partners and Viola FinTech. Founded in 2000, the group provides long-term capital and value-added support to tech companies across stages, from early venture to growth and credit financing, with a broad geographic reach in Israel and globally. Viola Group manages over three billion dollars in assets and has backed more than 200 technology companies, leveraging specialized teams, extensive networks, and strategic partnerships to help portfolio companies scale in sectors such as software, cybersecurity, fintech, semiconductors, and deep technology. The firm operates as a multi-strategy house, allowing independent arms to pursue distinct investment approaches while sharing services and expertise to drive durable returns for global institutional investors and private partners. Its approach combines capital with hands-on partnership to build transformational technology businesses.

Contour Venture Partners is a New York City-based early-stage venture capital firm that pursues seed and early-stage investments in technology-enabled companies. The firm concentrates on software and information technology, with emphasis on enterprise SaaS, vertical B2B SaaS, financial services, internet, media and TMT sectors, and often targets opportunities in New York and the surrounding market. It has a track record of supporting growth by building close relationships with management teams, focusing on flawless execution and long-term vision to establish sustainable competitive advantages. The firm aims to back companies that leverage innovative software solutions and technology to transform enterprise processes and financial services delivery.

Canaan Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1987 that operates globally with offices in Israel and India. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, including software, fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, digital health, biopharma, and medtech, and it has a history of backing startups that achieve exits.

Battery Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1983. It invests in category-defining technology companies across sectors such as application software, infrastructure software, consumer internet and mobile services, industrial technologies, and life science tools. The firm supports growth across various stages and geographies, including the United States, Europe, and Israel, with emphasis on software, TMT, and related tech-enabled opportunities. As a registered investment adviser, Battery Ventures backs companies that build scalable platforms and transformative products, helping them compete in rapidly evolving markets.

Betaworks is a New York-based technology company that operates as an accelerator, an investment platform, and a community hub through Betaworks Studios. Founded in the mid-2000s, it supports early-stage startups by running accelerator programs and investing in technology-focused ventures. The organization emphasizes building and scaling startups across information technology, software-as-a-service, gaming, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and related frontier technologies. Betaworks Studios provides a membership space where entrepreneurs can meet, collaborate, attend events, and access guidance to advance projects. Through its activities, Betaworks aims to foster talent, accelerate product development, and connect founders with resources and peers.

Launch NY is a U.S. Treasury-designated community development financial institution and nonprofit venture development organization based in Buffalo, New York. It provides pro bono mentoring and capital access to high-growth startups across Upstate New York, with a focus on catalyzing an entrepreneurial culture in the western half of the region, spanning 27 counties. The organization identifies, supports and invests in high-growth, high-impact companies across sectors including advanced manufacturing, biomedical, chemicals, materials, cleantech, consumer goods and services, information technology, web technology, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, mobile technology, sensors, nanotechnology, and food and beverages.

Polaris Partners is a Boston-based venture capital firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco that backs technology and life sciences companies across the United States and Europe. Founded in 1996, the firm partners with repeat entrepreneurs to support companies through multiple stages, from inception to growth, with a focus on software, healthcare information technology, digital health, life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, genomics, and related sectors. Its investments span the business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets, software as a service, and other technology-enabled solutions, aiming to build durable platform companies and address significant needs in healthcare and technology.

New York Angels is a leading New York-based angel investment organization founded in 2004 as the successor to the NYNMA Angel Investor Program. It comprises over 110 active angel investors and early-stage venture funds and meets monthly to screen and present early-stage technology companies. Since 2002 it has invested more than $100 million across more than 90 ventures, with typical initial investments ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000 and occasional lead investments up to $2 million. The group processes over 2,200 funding applications annually, selecting 12-16 companies each month for in-person review, and hosts a monthly Investment Breakfast where a subset presents with the goal of closing rounds within two months. It is a recognized leader in organized angel investing, was an early member of the Angel Capital Association, and has hosted ACA Summit. Membership is by invitation, with a requirement to commit at least $50,000 annually in early-stage tech deals in addition to a $3,500 annual membership fee; entrepreneurs may submit requests via its website.