Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based seed- and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology-driven startups across IT, software, internet-enabled services, EdTech, FinTech, IoT, digital media, and related sectors in the United States, with a Bay Area emphasis. Founded in 2008, the firm backs diverse entrepreneurial teams and frequently co-invests with other angels or venture funds in early rounds. Ulu is noted as the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is among the largest in the country by assets under management, with over $200M.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

True Ventures is a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It invests in early-stage technology startups in the United States, providing seed and Series A financing and managing substantial capital across its active funds. The firm supports founders with a platform of programs and a large team of professionals, including founders-turned-investors, to help portfolio companies grow. True has backed more than 350 companies and helped them scale, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide, and has been recognized as Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018.

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.

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.

Sand Hill Angels is a Mountain View, California-based angel investor network in Silicon Valley founded in 2000. The group comprises around 60+ technology professionals who collaborate to form and grow startup companies by investing in private technology firms at early stages. Its members focus on technology sectors including clean technology, Internet, information sciences, and life sciences, with activity in areas such as semiconductors, enterprise software, storage, and communications, as well as medical devices, diagnostics, and bioinformatics. Sand Hill Angels typically invest in seed and Series A rounds, and occasionally later-stage bridges, often committing $300K to $500K at a pre-money valuation under $5 million. The network works openly with venture capital funds and other angel groups to support the Bay Area ecosystem.

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.

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.

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that, as of March 2024, operates as two separate brands: Granite Asia, based in Singapore, which invests across the Asia-Pacific region including Southeast Asia, Japan, China, India, and Australia; and Notable Capital, based in Silicon Valley with offices in San Francisco and New York, which invests in the United States, Israel, Europe, and Latin America. Founded in 2000, the firm has a long track record of providing expansion and early-stage capital to technology companies in the United States and China, and it supports portfolio companies across software, IT, cloud, and related technology sectors.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 1972, the firm concentrates on early-stage, growth, and incubation investments, partnering with founders from inception through IPO and beyond. It backs ventures across technology-related sectors, including digital and information technology, life sciences, and healthcare, with a global reach that spans North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Mainland China.

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.

Felicis Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm that backs founders building iconic, boundary-transcending companies. It focuses on early-stage investments across software, information technology, consumer internet, AI, health, and security, and complements capital with active mentoring and advisory support. The firm pursues global opportunities, maintains a diverse portfolio, and has backed over 120 technology companies, with around 50 exits. It was founded by Aydin Senkut, a former Google executive, and emphasizes reinvention of core markets and frontier technologies.

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.

Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that concentrates on early-stage technology investments, with a focus on seed opportunities. It manages multiple funds and has a team of investing partners, supporting technology startups through the initial funding stages.

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.

Floodgate is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2006 that focuses on seed and early-stage technology investments. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Floodgate backs software, hardware, and broad technology ventures, including AI, enterprise, fintech, and consumer tech, across North America with emphasis on the Bay Area. The firm typically makes seed investments and often partners with other private investors or top-tier venture firms to support portfolio companies as they scale.

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.

Norwest Venture Partners is a global technology venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1961 and based in California. The firm backs seed through growth-stage companies across the United States, India and Israel, with investments spanning technology, cloud and IT infrastructure, Internet and consumer products, SaaS, business services, financial services, healthcare, and other sectors. It has funded hundreds of companies and leverages a broad network and operating experience to help founders scale their businesses. Norwest pursues a flexible, long-term approach, tailoring its capital and support to each stage and company, and it deploys capital across multiple rounds from early checks to growth investments. The firm is known for partnering with CEOs and management teams to accelerate growth through strategic guidance, operational resources, and access to its portfolio network.

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 and based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Francisco. The firm invests across seed through growth stages in consumer and enterprise software, cloud/SaaS, data and analytics, security, and related information technology sectors, and may participate in areas such as advertising, fintech, health tech, and open source infrastructure. It often seeks board oversight of portfolio companies and prioritizes investments in the United States, India, China, Europe and Israel, with occasional activity in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Band of Angels is an angel investment group based in the San Francisco Bay Area that pools capital and expertise from former and current high-tech executives to back early-stage startups. Founded in 1994, it targets seed and early-stage high-tech companies in California, with emphasis on enterprise software, AI, medical devices, fintech, energy, agtech, hardware, and related sectors in Silicon Valley. Typical checks range from 300,000 to 750,000, and the group often leads or participates in larger syndications around 2-3 million, aiming for board seats and roughly one-third ownership for a 1 million investment. Members bring operating experience from firms such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor to help portfolio companies. Since inception, the group has seeded over 225 companies, with more than 50 profitable M&A exits and nine Nasdaq IPOs.

Mohr Davidow Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in San Mateo. It specializes in seed, early-stage and growth investments in technology companies across the United States, with focus areas spanning information technology, software and cloud services, analytics, digital media, e-commerce, and life sciences. The firm seeks to back entrepreneurs whose innovations enable large-scale, digitally engaged markets by leveraging mobile, cloud computing and data analytics. It funds companies across several sectors, including digital marketing, healthcare technology, energy and other tech-enabled industries, and operates in major U.S. tech hubs such as Silicon Valley and neighboring regions. The firm manages substantial capital, reflecting a history of backing companies that aim to redefine markets and scale rapidly.

Spike Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Stanford-connected companies.

1Flourish Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. It specializes in early-stage, tech-enabled and deep-tech startups led by high-character, high-capacity entrepreneurs who view culture as a critical driver of long-term success. The firm emphasizes mentorship and faith-driven values in its approach, seeking opportunities where character and company culture underpin disruptive innovation and sustainable growth.

Start Smart Labs is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm and big data incubator founded in 2012. It supports early-stage startups building data-intensive applications on Hadoop and Spark and seeks opportunities in software-as-a-service sectors.

Founded in 2023, Matter Venture Partners is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm that invests primarily in hard tech startups.

AME Cloud Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven companies across seed to late stages, with a focus on building infrastructure and value chains around data. It invests in technology-heavy startups spanning AI, robotics, genomics, new-generation medical devices, big data, compute, mobility, sensors, and cloud ecosystems, and supports them with operational experience, mentorship, and global partner networks, including connections to international partners in China. Led by Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, the firm emphasizes helping entrepreneurs scale through strategic resources and hands-on guidance.

TSVC is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 and based in Los Altos, California. It specializes in early-stage investments in deep technology startups across the United States, focusing on software as a service, artificial intelligence, fintech, biotechnology, blockchain, and semiconductors. TSVC operates as a seed and early-stage investor with a track record of backing a broad portfolio of startups and notable exits, including Zoom, and has supported companies in data economy and healthtech among others. The firm is described as a pioneer in Silicon Valley seed investing, partnering with founders to provide technical guidance and capital to turn ambitious ideas into practical, scalable solutions.

Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2010. It invests in technology startups in the United States and Israel, spanning software, artificial intelligence, climate technology, robotics, life sciences, digital infrastructure and related fields. The firm pursues its Super Evolution thesis, which combines data, computational capacity and advanced engineering to accelerate iteration and transform a range of industries. With offices in Silicon Valley, New York and Tel Aviv, Innovation Endeavors supports founders through seed and early growth funding.

Redpoint Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in California, with offices in Woodside, San Francisco, and Beijing and Shanghai. It backs startups across seed, early, and growth stages in technology, media, consumer internet, and enterprise software, including energy-related technology. The firm supports founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones and manages $4 billion across multiple funds.

Wing Venture Capital is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across seed, early, and growth stages, with a focus on software, business technology, and cloud-enabled innovations. The firm emphasizes deep engagement with founders and long-term support to build enduring companies by transforming business technology through data, mobile, and cloud paradigms. Its team brings two decades of experience and a track record across dozens of portfolio companies, with many achieving IPOs or acquisitions. Wing backs B2B software, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, big data, and related enterprise technology sectors.

Shasta Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 that focuses on early-stage software investments in the United States. It backs startups in software as a service, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence, and consumer subscription sectors, typically supporting seed to Series B rounds. The firm operates from Portola Valley, California, and provides tailored resources to help founders navigate early-stage challenges rather than offering a one-size-fits-all program.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that provides seed-stage and early-stage investments to technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on technology companies across software, telecommunications, media, and other TMT sectors, offering early funding and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.

Mayfield Fund is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1969. It concentrates on early-stage technology companies across enterprise software, information technology, consumer tech, semiconductors, and health tech fields, including human and planetary health. The firm partners with founders from inception to help build iconic companies, drawing on extensive operational experience and a broad network. Mayfield has backed hundreds of companies, resulting in numerous IPOs and mergers and acquisitions, and maintains a global investment footprint with a focus on scalable technology businesses.

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.

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.

Venrock is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It concentrates on seed and early-stage technology and healthcare investments and has backed landmark companies such as Apple Computer, Intel, Illumina, Gilead Sciences, Athenahealth, DoubleClick, Nest, SlideShare, and Tudou. The firm manages multiple funds and maintains a US-focused investment approach, supporting entrepreneurs across information technology, life sciences, and related sectors throughout their growth journey.

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.

Soma Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that focuses on software-driven startups and seed-stage investments. It backs companies across B2B software, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and consumer sectors, with a global footprint spanning Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. The firm has a track record of backing startups that grow into unicorns, reflecting an emphasis on founder-led software businesses with scalable models. Soma Capital operates as a registered investment adviser.

DCM Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests across software, consumer and digital media, mobile, fintech, health tech, enterprise technology, and related sectors, with a geographic focus on the United States, China, and Japan. The firm has raised multiple funds totaling about $4.0 billion and has backed more than 400 technology companies in the United States and Asia. It provides hands-on operational guidance and leverages a broad global network of business and financial resources to support portfolio companies. DCM maintains offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo to support its portfolio across North America and Asia.

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.

Uncorrelated Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Salil Deshpande and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It backs early-stage companies focused on infrastructure software and seeks opportunities in related areas such as decentralized finance, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and fintech.

Harpoon Ventures is a San Diego–based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that makes early-stage and growth investments in technology companies. The firm focuses on sectors including artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomy, enterprise software, fintech, security, space, and synthetic biology, and operates as an investment adviser. It seeks to back ventures that address both commercial markets and government opportunities, with a stated aim to bridge Silicon Valley with U.S. government customers. Through its funds and capital commitments, Harpoon Ventures supports startups through the critical early stages and helps them scale operations, navigate regulatory environments, and access strategic partnerships. The firm emphasizes rigorous due diligence and value-added guidance for portfolio companies, pairing capital with expertise to accelerate growth and market entry.

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.

Tekton Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that partners with ambitious founders to build category-defining companies. The firm focuses on early investments worldwide, with activity in Silicon Valley, London and Israel, and in mobile and digitally connected markets in Asia such as China, Korea and India. Tekton emphasizes partnerships with local venture ecosystems and leverages a global network of entrepreneurs and investors to support startups at inception. The team brings decades of early-stage investing experience and seeks to back startups that have the potential to define new market categories.

Array Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs startups applying data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and related technologies to solve significant problems and transform industries. It seeks category-leading teams with bold missions that pursue opportunities in large or emerging markets and values entrepreneurs who articulate a clear view of the future and why their solution will win in that world.