Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.

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.

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It backs early- and growth-stage technology startups and seeks investments across software, cloud, consumer, enterprise IT, fintech, security, media, and related sectors. The firm operates globally, supporting entrepreneurs in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and other markets, with a track record of helping portfolio companies scale to category-defining leaders. Notable investments include Atlassian, Dropbox, Facebook, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Flipkart, Qualtrics, Lookout Security, and MoPub. Accel emphasizes hands-on mentorship and strategic guidance to build durable, world-class businesses that shape next-generation industries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LAUNCH is an Austin, Texas-based early-stage investment firm and accelerator platform that combines capital with education for startups. It provides syndicate funding and operates a suite of programs to support builders, including Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, and Startup Tuneup, as well as events such as Remote Demo Day. The LAUNCH ecosystem pairs investment with structured training, community access, and practical guidance to help founders move from idea to growth. By coordinating funding and educational programs, LAUNCH aims to accelerate startup development and enable teams to scale.

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.

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.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 and based in New York. It engages in private and public market investments focused on technology-driven growth, selecting opportunities across global companies. The firm employs public equity strategies including long/short and growth, and pursues private equity investments spanning early to late stages across various industries. Its approach emphasizes identifying high-quality growth companies and working with portfolio businesses throughout their lifecycle, with activity across the United States, China, India, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and other regions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wayra is Telefónica’s global open-innovation hub that connects entrepreneurs with Telefónica to generate joint business opportunities. Operating in ten countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela—Wayra serves as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing access to networks, partners, and potential customers through acceleration programs and collaboration initiatives.

SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.

Norwest Venture Partners is a global technology venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1961 and based in California. It invests across seed to growth stages in technology, software and TMT, business services, financial services, consumer, and healthcare sectors, in the United States and internationally. The firm has funded more than 600 companies and has over 140 active portfolio companies; it manages nearly $5 billion in venture capital. Norwest provides capital and a broad network and operating experience to help CEOs scale their businesses.

Kima Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris with an office in London, founded in 2010 by Xavier Niel. It invests in seed and early-stage startups worldwide, often as lead investor, and supports founders with funding, an extensive network, and guidance to accelerate product development and growth. The firm emphasizes rapid decision-making and aims to smooth fundraising so founders can focus on building their business. Described as a network of founders and experts with a pay it forward mindset, Kima has invested in hundreds of startups across multiple countries, reflecting its global reach and active early-stage engagement.

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.

Cultivation Capital is a St. Louis, Missouri-based venture capital firm that backs seed- to Series B–stage companies in the United States. Its focus includes life sciences, healthcare, agriculture technology, and related software, information technology, and geospatial sectors, with investments spanning early rounds to support product development and market entry.

Sapphire Ventures is a global software-focused venture capital firm that backs technology companies across growth and early stages. With teams in Austin, London, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and San Francisco, it partners with management teams and other venture funds to scale companies toward category leadership. The firm manages a substantial asset base and its portfolio spans software, information technology, fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud and related technologies. A dedicated Portfolio Growth team provides hands-on support, tools and resources to help portfolio leaders execute growth strategies and scale operations, while Sapphire Ventures also operates platforms such as Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport to support portfolio companies and select venture fund initiatives. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and strategic value creation through its global footprint and operator driven approach.

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.

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2017. It operates as an early-stage investor backed by a network of over 420 Y Combinator alumni, and it seeks to back top YC startups. The firm maintains a broad sector scope, investing in consumer products and services, information technology, financial technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, life sciences, healthcare technology, real estate technology, ride-sharing, and SaaS and supply chain technologies, among others. Pioneer Fund positions itself as a generalist, technology-focused investor with activity across consumer, enterprise and emerging tech sectors.

ICONIQ Capital is a global multi-family office and investment firm that provides financial advisory and family office services while making direct investments across asset classes. The firm emphasizes technology growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate, and operates an integrated platform that supports founders and high-net-worth clients. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Palo Alto and Singapore, ICONIQ Capital combines wealth management with strategic investments, including a growth-focused arm that backs growth-stage technology and other sectors through its ecosystem of portfolio companies.

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.

Alchemist Accelerator is a seed-stage enterprise startup accelerator that runs a six-month program to accelerate product development, market entry, and fundraising. It provides seed funding to admitted teams and offers mentorship, structured milestones, and access to a broad corporate and venture investor network. The accelerator prioritizes teams with distinctive technical founders and a business model focused on monetizing through enterprises rather than consumer markets, and it supports ventures in the business-to-business sector through a collaborative ecosystem.

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.

NFX is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs pre-seed and seed-stage startups. It adopts a founder-first approach, aiming to improve the early-stage experience for founders by leveraging software and sharing growth techniques rooted in network effects and visibility into the methods of successful technology companies. The firm emphasizes entrepreneurship among its founders and highlights a track record of supporting portfolio companies that achieve large exits across multiple industries and geographies. NFX invests across a broad range of sectors, including software, data products, fintech, AI, biotech, gaming, crypto, proptech, marketplaces, and related technology-enabled businesses, with activity spanning the United States and international markets.

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.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm established in 1974 with additional offices in Osaka and Nagoya. It focuses on seed, development stage, and startup investments across healthcare, life sciences, biotechnology, information technology, electronics, artificial intelligence, fintech, SaaS, and other high-technology sectors, with an emphasis on the Japanese market and relevance to Japan. The firm also engages in investment syndication for Japanese opportunities.

Seedcamp is a European seed-stage venture capital firm based in London that identifies and invests early in founders tackling large global markets with technology. It supports a community of more than 400 startups, including publicly listed UiPath and Wise and unicorns such as Revolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo and wefox, as well as fast-growing companies like Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. The firm accelerates founders by providing smart capital, a lifelong community, and a global network built on more than a decade of backing exceptional talent.

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.

Forum Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm, accelerator and venture studio focused on B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, it supports early-stage founders through pre-seed and seed funding, high-touch programming, and a SaaS community. The Forum For Founders program provides $100k in pre-seed funding and 15 weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance on go-to-market and fundraising. Forum Seed backs seed-stage SaaS startups, including those from its program. The organization operates an accelerator and venture studio and focuses investments in vertical artificial intelligence, AI agents, health tech, fintech, supply chain and the future of work. It has over 250 portfolio companies and connects founders to a broad network of investors and partners.

High Alpha is an Indiana-based venture studio and early-stage investor focused on B2B SaaS. Headquartered in Indianapolis, it builds and scales business-to-business software companies by combining studio services—design, finance, talent, marketing, branding, and go-to-market—with capital support to create enterprise-scale ventures. Founded in 2015, the firm concentrates on early-stage software and SaaS opportunities in the United States.

Service Provider Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that funds seed-stage technology companies across domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, hardware, robotics, information technology, health tech, and cannabis. The firm also co-invests in Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds, providing capital and guidance to startups in the United States, including the Midwest and Southeast regions.

Pear is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. It focuses on early-stage technology investments in North America, with an emphasis on pre-seed and seed rounds, across sectors including artificial intelligence, software as a service, enterprise technology, healthcare, biotechnology, fintech, climate technology, deep tech and consumer markets. Based in San Francisco, Pear provides capital and hands-on support to exceptional founders to help build scalable companies.

Redpoint Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in Woodside, California, with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Shanghai. It partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones and makes investments across seed, early, and growth stages. The firm operates multiple funds and manages about four billion dollars in total. Its investment scope covers technology, media, and energy-related opportunities, including consumer Internet, software, enterprise IT services, fintech, and digital media, with a China-focused arm, Redpoint China Ventures, backing early-stage opportunities in China across technology, telecommunications, and related sectors. Redpoint seeks to be a lead or co-lead investor in its portfolio companies and pursues a global footprint, including the United States and international markets. The emphasis is on minority and early-stage bets in high-potential sectors, aiming to back founders with the potential to disrupt established industries.

Pareto Holdings is a venture capital firm and venture studio founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York. It focuses on early-stage and pre-seed investments across industries and geographies, often backing entrepreneurs at the outset. The company invests its own capital rather than raising external funds and operates with a lean, globally distributed team. It has completed hundreds of investments to date, and provides hands-on support to startups through its venture studio activities.

Blume Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups in India at the seed to pre-Series A stage. It focuses on tech-enabled ventures across consumer internet, enterprise software, SaaS, and deep tech, among other areas, including fintech and healthcare. The firm typically serves as one of the first institutional investors in its portfolio companies, and it pursues a collaborative approach by co-investing with like-minded angels and seed funds. It provides follow-on capital to portfolio companies and offers mentoring and strategic support to help them scale, with an investment horizon of roughly 8-10 years.

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests across seed, early, and growth stages in consumer and enterprise software and related technology sectors, including cloud computing, data analytics, security, and infrastructure. The firm aims to support portfolio companies that create new markets and achieve scale, often taking board seats as part of its investment approach. Notable investments include Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, LinkedIn, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage, and Workday.

SMBC Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, with an office in Osaka, the firm invests in growth capital and buyouts across multiple sectors. It targets information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing, supporting portfolio companies with strategic value and access to SMBC's network and resources.

Village Global is an early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2017, it is backed by successful entrepreneurs and focuses on pre-seed and seed investments across sectors including fintech, healthcare technology, financial services, information technology, mobile, software as a service, artificial intelligence, and supply chain technology, with exposure to B2B and B2C models.

CIBC Innovation Banking is a division of CIBC that serves entrepreneurs and investors in the innovation economy. Backed by CIBC, it offers financial capital, a broad network of connections, and insightful service to help growth-oriented companies and their investors secure funding, form partnerships, and scale operations. The bank's team combines capital solutions with practical guidance and access to a wide ecosystem of industry partners to support startups and venture-backed businesses through key growth stages.

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.

Precursor Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds in North America. It invests in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware across sectors including consumer, digital health, education, enterprise, fintech, marketplace, SaaS, information technology, media, and more. The firm tends to support companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Toronto, with activity in other U.S., Canada, and Mexico markets. Typical investments range from USD 0.1 million to 0.25 million per company. Founded in 2015, Precursor Ventures emphasizes investing in people and has adopted a Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

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.