Antler is a global venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Singapore that invests in technology companies and incubates startups across diverse sectors. It supports founders from day one with a worldwide community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, and expansion support, complemented by capital to help launch and scale ventures. Through regional funds and programs, Antler backs early-stage ventures across geographies, facilitating collaboration among founders and providing resources to help teams recruit, validate ideas, and enter markets.
Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is an early and growth-stage investor that backs entrepreneurs building world-class technology companies across software, consumer, enterprise IT, information technology, healthcare, fintech, security, and media sectors. The firm emphasizes a global community of founders, operators, and resources, providing more than capital to help portfolio companies scale. Its investments span geographies including the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and other regions, and its portfolio has included notable companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, and many others. With decades of experience, Accel partners with teams to turn early-stage ideas into category-defining businesses and to accelerate growth through strategic guidance and networks. The firm focuses on practical, long-term support for scalable technology ventures.
Insight Partners is a global private equity and venture capital firm that partners with growth-stage software, internet, and data-services companies to accelerate revenue growth and long-term value. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in New York, it focuses on software-enabled sectors including Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare, and has backed more than 750 companies worldwide, with numerous portfolio companies achieving IPOs. The firm provides capital, hands-on operational guidance, and a broad network to help growing software companies move from product-market fit to IPO, assisting with product development, M&A, efficiency, and geographic expansion. As of 2022, Insight Partners reported over 75 billion in assets under management and maintains offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto to support its global portfolio.
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.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. Founded in 2000 and based in the United States, the firm backs startups across consumer, enterprise software, fintech, crypto, and health technologies, offering mentorship and strategic guidance to help ideas scale. It participates in seed and growth rounds, often taking minority or majority stakes, and supports portfolio companies with resources and networks across North America and Europe.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 that strengthens the Philadelphia region's technology ecosystem by providing capital, strategic guidance, and professional connections to technology startups and growth companies across Philadelphia, Bucks, Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery counties. It serves as a seed-stage capital provider and investor across information technology, health, and physical sciences, advancing technology commercialization through university–industry partnerships and regional initiatives. The organization aims to accelerate innovation, create jobs, and build a robust entrepreneurial community by offering funding, mentorship, and access to a broad network of resources.
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.
Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva that partners with entrepreneurs to turn bold ideas into global businesses. Founded in 1996, the firm backs technology-driven startups across sectors including artificial intelligence, data, software, fintech, healthcare, media, mobility, and consumer platforms, providing early and growth-stage funding along with hands-on support to scale product, go-to-market, and operations. It has backed notable companies such as Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell, reflecting a history of helping portfolio teams grow internationally. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and a collaborative approach to help startups realize global reach and market leadership.
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.
Heavybit is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, United States, specializing in software and enterprise infrastructure investments. Founded in 2012, it supports technical startups from inception with a focus on DevSecOps, feature flagging, and AI-powered development tools. The firm emphasizes a developer-first approach, leveraging a partnership model and a community of technical founders and over 600 domain experts to nurture startups into platforms and ecosystems.
Octopus Ventures is a London-based pan-European venture capital firm that backs early-stage companies across Europe, from pre-seed through Series A, providing capital and strategic support to help founders scale. The firm focuses on health, fintech, deep tech, consumer, B2B software, and climate technology, with an emphasis on positive social and environmental impact and on promoting diversity and female leadership. It allocates over £200 million annually to investments and operates from London and New York, with a network of partners in the United States and Asia.
Notation Capital is a Brooklyn-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and early-stage technology companies. It partners with technical founding teams, often at pre-market or pre-product stages, to provide capital and hands-on support that helps them go-to-market and scale. The firm backs ventures across hard tech, infrastructure, product, AI, health tech, logistics, and related sectors in the New York region, leveraging leadership experience in technology and product development to assist portfolio companies in navigating growth. Notation Capital emphasizes building a community of founders, advisors, and investors and shares knowledge through initiatives such as the Origins podcast, which explores venture ecosystems and the perspectives of limited partners. Rooted in Brooklyn, it leverages its network to help ambitious teams achieve traction.
Europlay Capital Advisors is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, established in 2002, that partners with entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and focuses on investments in healthcare, mobile, retail, media, and information technology sectors.
Refactor Capital is a venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California, founded in 2016. It concentrates on seed- and early-stage investments in hard technology, biotechnology, and health, with a breadth of sectors including energy, earth systems, aerospace, manufacturing, and critical materials. The firm is led by Zal Bilimoria as sole general partner.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000 and based in Menlo Park, California. It invests across the startup lifecycle, from seed to growth, in sectors including enterprise technology, consumer, fintech, health, and cleantech, with a focus on software, internet, mobile, and other technology-enabled businesses. The firm operates internationally with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya Pituach, enabling it to back entrepreneurs across the United States, Asia, and Israel.
Inventures Investment Partners is a Brussels-based European impact investment firm founded in 2011. It manages two venture capital funds, Inventures I and Inventures II, and focuses on generating financial returns alongside social impact by investing in early-stage and innovative European SMEs that address societal goals aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The firm backs companies in sectors such as health, education, environment and economic development, pursuing an approach that integrates impact into core strategy while supporting sustainable growth across Europe.
Remagine Ventures is a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm that backs seed, pre-seed and early-stage startups, focusing on Israeli companies operating in media-related technology including artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, gaming, video and audio, marketplaces and platforms, e-commerce, advertising, esports, consumer tech and digital commerce, with emphasis on gaming, metaverse and the creator economy and often acting as a first cheque investor for ambitious founders. It collaborates with corporate partners to facilitate commercial opportunities and accelerate time to market, and maintains close ties to the Israeli tech ecosystem.
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.
Draper B1 is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in Valencia, Spain. Founded in 2010, it invests in B2B and B2B2C startups, with a focus on internet and mobile applications. The firm provides hands-on support, strategic connections, and resources to help portfolio companies grow and scale.
Founder Collective is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York. It focuses on seed and early-stage investments across sectors, prioritizing founder alignment and capital efficiency. The firm is built by founders and aims to support entrepreneurs from concept through outcomes, fostering a community of founders and sharing insights through articles and newsletters. While industry-agnostic, it backs technology-driven companies and maintains a globally active investment approach.
Battery Ventures is a global technology-focused investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1983, the firm is a private equity and venture capital investor that backs technology companies across stages, with emphasis on application software, infrastructure software, consumer and industrial technologies, and life science tools. It pursues growth opportunities in software, information technology, and related sectors, providing capital and value-added support such as talent acquisition, business development, and growth strategies to help portfolio companies scale from early stage to market leaders.
True Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 2005 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in early-stage technology startups, providing seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in the United States. The firm emphasizes active founder support through The True Platform, which offers programs to inspire professional and personal growth for portfolio companies. True Ventures maintains a team of experienced professionals and advisers and has backed more than 350 companies, helping to create 85,000 jobs worldwide. The firm manages more than $3.8 billion in capital across multiple funds and has been recognized for its contributions to the entrepreneurship ecosystem, including being named Venture Firm of the Year in 2018 by the National Venture Capital Association.
Peak Capital is a European venture capital firm dedicated to fueling the growth of early-stage SaaS, marketplace, and platform companies. The firm invests between €250k and €4M in ventures with strong teams, compelling value propositions, and significant market opportunities, primarily in the Nordics, DACH, and Benelux regions, while remaining open to European-origin companies. Peak emphasizes understanding the founder and team, using a framework of Team, Thesis, Traction, and Timing, and provides guidance and resources beyond capital to help portfolio companies scale their software platforms and digital products across multiple sectors.
Threshold Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Menlo Park, California, that backs technology-focused startups at early stages, primarily in Series A and B rounds. It emphasizes a sustained, hands-on partnership with founder-led companies, offering strategic guidance, operational input, and access to networks beyond capital, and often takes board seats to support product development, market positioning, hiring, and go-to-market planning. The firm backs disruptive consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies and pursues a high-conviction investment approach with a nimble operating style to help founders achieve scalable growth.
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.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital and angel investment firm that backs early-stage software and technology-enabled companies across the United States. The firm provides business development, financing and strategic advisory services, including M&A support, leveraging its network to help founders at critical inflection points. Known for a high-volume approach, SV Angel evaluates and backs a broad slate of startups each year, aiming to accelerate growth and help build lasting companies through hands-on guidance and connections.
Union Square Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 that invests across the internet sector, emphasizing the applications layer of the web, internet services, and web services that create large networks, including mobile. The firm engages in early, growth, and late-stage investments, typically making initial commitments around 1 million and up to about 20 million in a single company, often serving as lead investor with ownership goals of roughly 15% to 20%. Its portfolio covers sectors such as social media, marketplaces, developer tools, education, health, fintech, climate tech, and web3, with companies located in major tech hubs like New York, San Francisco, London, and Berlin.
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.
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.
Tiger Global Management is a New York-based investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital to private and public markets worldwide, with a focus on technology, internet, consumer and financial services sectors, and regions including the United States, China, India, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The firm employs public equity strategies such as long/short and growth, alongside private investments across early to late stages, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and supporting portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle.
Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in innovative startups. It maintains a portfolio that includes companies emerging from Y Combinator and seeks opportunities across a broad range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial technology, information technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, education technology, real estate technology, autonomous vehicles, advertising technology, augmented reality, and SaaS and supply chain technologies. Founded in 2017, the firm focuses on nurturing early-stage companies with growth potential by providing strategic guidance and capital to help them scale.
ICONIQ Capital is a private global multi-family office and merchant bank that provides financial advisory and family-office services while managing direct investments across asset classes. The firm concentrates on technology growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate opportunities, serving influential families and organizations worldwide. Founded in 2001 by former Wall Street wealth managers as Mark Zuckerberg’s family office, ICONIQ Capital has since expanded to serve a broader client base beyond Silicon Valley. It is based in San Francisco with additional offices in New York, Palo Alto, and Singapore, focusing investments in North America and Europe.
Lerer Hippeau is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that concentrates on early-stage investments in North America. The firm backs entrepreneurs across a broad range of sectors, including fintech, blockchain, hardware and robotics, healthcare, software, media and entertainment, and consumer brands, with a focus on seed and early financing and close founder support as companies scale. Its portfolio includes a mix of enterprise and consumer companies such as Guideline, K Health, Allbirds, Zipline, ZenBusiness, and Thrive, illustrating a track record of helping disruptive startups grow from inception to scale.
Wayra is Telefónica's global corporate venture capital arm and open innovation hub. It operates in ten countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela—connecting startups with Telefónica to generate joint business opportunities. Wayra acts as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing investment, acceleration programs, and partnerships with Telefónica's businesses to help startups scale and access global markets. The program focuses on digital transformation in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and logistics, leveraging AI and IoT to drive innovative solutions, supported by Wayra's networks and capital within a broad international ecosystem.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. It backs entrepreneurs across seed and growth stages and invests across consumer, enterprise and healthcare sectors. The firm has backed notable companies such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast, and it has about $19 billion in assets under management.
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 and based in Menlo Park, California, with a global investment reach. It provides capital and operational support to early, growth, and later-stage companies across a wide range of industries, including software, consumer technology, healthcare technology, life sciences, energy technology, infrastructure, and AI-enabled services. NEA collaborates with founders to address technical challenges, guide product development, and expand markets, leveraging its domain expertise to help portfolio companies scale from seed stages through IPO. The firm invests across the United States, Asia, and other regions, often supporting companies from early stages to scale, and has a long track record that includes numerous IPOs and acquisitions. NEA emphasizes a hands-on partnership approach and seeks opportunities across sectors that enable transformational businesses through technology and data-driven innovation.
Menlo Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 1976 that provides capital to startups and growth-stage technology companies across the United States. Based in San Francisco, the firm pursues seed through growth investments in consumer and software-enabled sectors, including marketplaces, consumer services, software and SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, and life sciences technology. It emphasizes market-driven analysis and active involvement, aiming to identify opportunities and support scalable growth, strategic exits, and innovation.
Ganas Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Carlsbad, California, that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage Web 2 and Web 3 startups operating in the United States and Latin America, with a focus on community-driven ventures in the region.
GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm affiliated with GREE that makes early-stage investments in gaming, entertainment, and consumer technology, including areas such as generative AI, blockchain, media, and the creator economy. It backs startups that leverage new technologies to disrupt entertainment and consumer experiences and pursues global opportunities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Graham & Walker is a Seattle-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing, primarily in pre-seed and seed rounds in health, software, and technology sectors. Founded in 2017, it supports ambitious founders through initiatives such as its Founder Hub and Founder Day program and by sharing ongoing resources, cultivating a community of founders. The firm backs companies with strong potential across consumer, marketplace, and SaaS models and aims for long-term growth through practical, substance-driven investing.
Benchmark is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that focuses on early-stage technology companies, investing in areas such as mobile, marketplaces, social platforms, infrastructure, and enterprise software. The firm maintains offices in San Francisco and Woodside and is known for a hands-on, partner-led approach with a relatively small partner team. It has a notable commitment to open source and pioneered an equal ownership structure for partners. Benchmark has supported numerous startups that achieved exits, reporting 37 exits since 2011, including 14 IPOs and 23 mergers and acquisitions, with a combined market value of over $60 billion. Its portfolio has included private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic, and Cyanogen, and it has seen involvement in high-profile IPOs and acquisitions like Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, and New Relic among others.
Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on seed investments in technology companies. Founded around 2012, it manages more than five core funds and has six investing partners, with over $3.2 billion under management. Its portfolio companies have generated more than $200 billion in aggregate market value to date.
FundersClub is an online venture capital platform that connects accredited investors with a diversified portfolio of vetted startups. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, the company focuses on seed and early-stage investments in technology and technology-enabled startups. It operates a globally sourced network and rigorous vetting process to streamline access to early venture opportunities typically unavailable to individual investors, while providing hands-on support to portfolio companies. By combining software-driven processes with human due diligence, FundersClub seeks to deliver returns for investors and help founders accelerate growth. The platform emphasizes transparent, scalable participation in venture capital rather than traditional fund structures.
M-Fund Club is a venture platform and investment community based in Givat Shmuel, Israel. It operates as a boutique private investors club that backs early-stage startups through a blended model that combines a venture capital fund with an Angel Club. The organization emphasizes hands-on involvement, strong founder relationships, and a reference-driven approach to sourcing investments. Focused on software, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and information technology, M-Fund Club leverages its network of accredited investors to support founders through various growth stages and to identify opportunities prior to broader market awareness.
M12 is Microsoft's corporate venture capital arm that invests in early-stage technology startups across AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, Web3 and gaming, and enterprise software. Based in San Francisco with activity in North America and Israel, it provides startups with access to Microsoft resources, partnerships, and potential integration opportunities to accelerate growth. Founded in 2016 as Microsoft Ventures, M12 also runs accelerator programs and supports later-stage startups within Microsoft's ecosystem.
North Bridge Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Needham, Massachusetts, founded in 1993. It provides seed-to-growth financing to startups in the United States operating in software, open source, cloud computing, e-commerce, big data and analytics, and mobile technologies, among others, helping transform ideas into market-leading businesses.
TAU Ventures is the venture capital arm of Tel Aviv University that backs early-stage Israeli technology startups. It invests seed and pre-seed capital and leverages the university's resources, industry connections, and a supportive ecosystem to help founders transform ideas into global businesses. The firm works closely with portfolio companies through mentorship and structured programs, and partners with global corporations to provide innovation programs, grants, networking, and follow-on capital. Based in Tel Aviv, it aims to cultivate home-grown technology across AI, digital health, automation, and enterprise sectors by combining university resources with an active ecosystem for growth.
Monochrome Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that provides seed-stage capital to B2B startups building significant technical moats. It concentrates on software and artificial intelligence, and invests across information technology, cloud and DevOps, cybersecurity, data and analytics, IoT, autonomous and mobility technologies, robotics and drones, SaaS, fintech and payments, supply chain tech, space tech, nanotechnology, legal tech, marketing tech, and related areas.
Serra Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Champaign, Illinois. It backs technology companies at early stages and beyond, with a focus on information technology, deep tech, instrumentation, devices, software-as-a-service, B2B software, and agricultural technologies. The firm primarily targets opportunities in the Midwest and West Coast, investing in companies across the United States and select international locations.