OneCause is a fundraising software company offering an online and event fundraising platform for nonprofits. The platform combines event management, online and peer-to-peer fundraising, text-to-give, mobile bidding, payment processing, online ticketing, and registration to simplify donor engagement and increase giving. Originally BidPal, the company rebranded as OneCause and is based in Indianapolis, founded in 2008. It has supported more than 14,000 organizations and helped raise over $8 billion, backed by millions of supporters and thousands of fundraisers. The company emphasizes partnerships with clients and provides ongoing support and resources to adapt to changing fundraising trends. OneCause has been recognized on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies and by Techpoint with a MIRA award for Mobile Technology Excellence and Innovation.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that employs a quantitative, data-driven approach to fund technology startups at the earliest stages. Founded in 2012, it concentrates on capital-efficient companies that are generating revenue and typically seeks rounds of 50,000 to 500,000 dollars, often outside the traditional SF Bay Area and NYC hubs. The firm targets pre-product-market fit ventures across the United States and Canada, making a high volume of investments—hundreds of portfolio companies and more than two thousand investments since inception—with a philosophy of rapid, transparent decision-making and broad post-investment engagement. Its team leverages extensive operational experience to provide hands-on mentorship in areas such as sales, marketing, fundraising, and operations, aiming to support startups through critical growth phases and facilitate later-stage partnerships. RSCM positions itself as an operating-style fund focused on supporting founders, not a standard VC, and emphasizes building a diverse, founder-focused community through events and guidance.

Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto based venture capital firm that invests in seed and early‑stage technology companies. Founded in 2008, it backs businesses across enterprise software, fintech, healthtech, sustainability, edtech, and blockchain, with additional emphasis on internet-enabled consumer and business services, digital media, mobile, and online advertising. The firm typically co-invests with other angels or venture funds, contributing roughly 500,000 to 1,000,000 per opportunity. It emphasizes diverse founding teams, including women, minority, URM, and immigrant founders, viewing diversity as a driver of performance. Ulu operates with a regional focus on the Bay Area, particularly Silicon Valley, and supports portfolio companies through strategic guidance and networks.

Love Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in early-stage UK startups in fintech, proptech, and consumer tech. The firm targets seed to Series A rounds and supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance across product strategy, go-to-market planning, fundraising, and scaling operations. Its team comprises investors, operators, and advisers with extensive startup and venture experience, and the firm emphasizes a patient capital approach.

Transform Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in late-stage investments in high-growth technology companies, including enterprise software and the future of work. The firm differentiates itself with a philanthropic model in which General Partners donate 50% of their profits to charitable causes selected by investors and founders, aligning financial success with social impact. It emphasizes a collaborative, partner-style approach with portfolio companies to support transformative innovation and practical problem solving.

Orbit Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on emerging markets, investing in technology companies that digitize traditional industries to raise living standards in a sustainable way. Based in Singapore, it backs digitalization across e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The firm emphasizes rapid iteration, operational excellence, and strategic partnerships, supporting portfolio companies with specialized task forces and a broad network of mentors and corporate partners. It provides hands-on support for partnerships, business development, fundraising, and growth, and maintains a long-term investment program with follow-on funding. The portfolio comprises about 260 companies, supported by 575 mentors and 212 corporate partners, and the firm hosts events that connect enterprise innovation leaders with founders.

Minderoo Foundation is an Australian philanthropic organization based in Nedlands that seeks to address global challenges and create a fair future through grantmaking, strategic partnerships, policy advocacy, and evidence-based solutions. It supports community uplift, gender equality, protection of natural ecosystems, and responses to emerging threats, including initiatives related to Ukraine’s food security and the transition away from fossil fuel plastics. The foundation combines funding with collaboration and storytelling to scale measurable impact, and it engages in impact investing to advance sectors such as healthcare, clean technology, education, climate, and the environment. Minderoo emphasizes inclusion and kindness as guiding principles while coordinating resources and knowledge to drive systemic improvements across diverse regions and issues.

Upaya Social Ventures is a social ventures firm that invests in and supports early-stage entrepreneurs to create dignified, stable jobs for people in extreme poverty, with a focus on marginalized communities in India. Its approach combines investment, consulting, and an accelerator platform to help startups scale, formalize livelihoods, and generate sustainable employment for families in need. The organization emphasizes inclusive, safe work and aims to advance climate justice and circular economy solutions through its portfolio, partnering with social ventures that address waste reduction and resource recovery while expanding dignified work opportunities in underserved markets.

Mercia Ventures is an early‑stage to scale‑up investment firm that provides growth capital to ambitious UK businesses. With a national presence, it offers tailored support and expertise to help companies expand and achieve their strategic objectives.

PeopleFund is a private investment company that supports entrepreneurs worldwide by providing financing, strategic contacts, and advisory resources to help grow scalable, profitable, and sustainable ventures. Founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and backed by an experienced team, it leverages a global network of partners and advisors to assist companies at all stages, with a focus on technology, software, internet, media, and online sectors. Based in Miami, Florida, the firm engages in early through growth investments across private and public companies and emphasizes social impact through PeopleFund Impact, contributing time, expertise, and resources to charitable and nonprofit causes to improve living standards.

Ayre Group is a globally operating investment company led by entrepreneur and philanthropist Calvin Ayre, with activities spanning real estate development, venture and private equity investments in technology startups, particularly artificial intelligence and blockchain, and initiatives in philanthropy and community development. The group backs innovations across real estate, technology, media, health and wellness, and travel and leisure, pursuing ventures that aim to democratize opportunities and create positive social impact. With operations in Zurich, Antigua, Makati and London, Ayre Group combines strategic capital with hands-on support to build high-tech offices, luxury resorts, and other commercial projects while pursuing long-term value creation.

New Impact Fund is a financing organization focused on improving access to capital for BIPOC and immigrant entrepreneurs in the Twin Cities. It provides low-cost, flexible capital and networking opportunities, working with mission-driven investors to support ventures that traditional lenders often overlook. The organization aims to reshape wealth creation by offering transformational capital and fostering intergenerational wealth building within BIPOC- and immigrant-owned businesses. It operates as a community of philanthropic leaders that mobilizes resources to support entrepreneurship, including donor engagement and member participation to sustain its mission.

Triangle Tweener Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It invests in seed and early-stage technology companies in the Raleigh–Durham area and the broader Triangle region, and aims to build an index of private early-stage investments in Triangle-area startups that meet its Tweener List criteria.

Northstar Ventures is a Newcastle upon Tyne based venture capital firm that backs early- and growth-stage technology companies in the United Kingdom, with a focus on climate technology and healthy ageing. The firm provides capital and strategic support through its network of universities, funders, non-executive directors, and talent to help portfolio companies scale, innovate, and create regional growth. It primarily invests in the United Kingdom, with emphasis on the North East England region, including County Durham, Northumberland, and Tyne and Wear, and aims to support startups that drive employment, skills development, and positive social impact.

Allos Ventures is a Midwest-focused venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in B2B software and technology-enabled services. Founded in 2010, it partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate growth and create value, often taking a lead investor role to facilitate syndicates. The firm emphasizes a hands-on, responsive approach and backs companies with existing products and revenue. It concentrates on sectors it understands and operates primarily in the Midwest, aiming to support portfolio companies through active involvement rather than aggressive negotiating tactics or broad board participation.

Mighty Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs B2B technology companies from pre-seed to Series A. It uses the Product Alpha Effect methodology to identify outliers by reading product signals earlier and leveraging insights from a network of product leaders. The firm acts as a product investor, helping founders accelerate sales while maintaining greater ownership and improving the odds of successful exits. Its hands-on approach combines deep product expertise with founder-friendly terms to support growth across the portfolio.

Takeda is a global biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of prescription medicines and vaccines. The company focuses on core therapeutic areas including oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and plasma-derived therapies, and operates a diversified geographic footprint across the United States, Japan, Europe, Canada, and other regions. Takeda develops and delivers therapies across multiple modalities to treat cancer, inflammatory and immune disorders, metabolic and GI diseases, and other conditions, supported by an extensive R&D program and manufacturing network. It pursues innovation through internal research and external collaborations, aiming to translate scientific advances into accessible treatments for patients worldwide. The business emphasizes patient-centric care and responsible corporate practices, seeking to strengthen health outcomes and access to medicines through its global operations and partnerships.

Big Issue Invest is a London-based investment firm established in 2005 that concentrates on early-stage funding for social enterprises across the United Kingdom. It describes itself as the UK's first social merchant bank, operating by social entrepreneurs for social entrepreneurs to enable mission-driven businesses to scale and generate social impact.

Bossa Invest is a São Paulo-based venture capital firm that provides equity funding and strategic support to startups across Latin America. It focuses on software as a service (SaaS) and leverages a wide network of more than 4,000 partners and co-investors to connect portfolio companies with strategic guidance, potential customers, and funding opportunities. Beyond capital, the firm offers mentorship, market insights, and access to corporate partners to help startups scale and pursue exits. It also engages in corporate venture activities, assisting large companies to accelerate innovation through collaboration with startups under flexible investment structures. Since its founding, the firm has invested in more than 1,500 startups and achieved over 100 exits.

Social Tech Trust is an impact investment firm founded in 2008 and based in Oxford, United Kingdom, focused on early-stage technology ventures that address social and environmental challenges. It provides flexible, aligned investment along with mentorship and resources to founders, including support through programs such as the AI and Social Mobility Challenge Prize and the Social Tech Ventures fund. The organization emphasizes equity and inclusion, connecting a community of over 1,200 peers and offering backing to founders with lived experience. It measures and reports its impact to demonstrate improvements in lives, communities, and planetary sustainability, and aims to create more equitable technology outcomes by prioritizing social transformation in tech development.

Rev1 Ventures is a Midwest-based venture studio and early-stage investor headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It combines capital with strategic services to help startups scale, guiding founders from market validation to growth and linking them with corporate and research partners, customers, and resources. The firm emphasizes collaboration to strengthen the Midwest startup ecosystem and backs companies across software, advanced technology, data analytics, digital health, and related sectors, leveraging a proven track record of helping startups address real market needs; its portfolio includes companies such as Scioto Agritech, Synota, and Clarametyx Biosciences.

Founded in 2004, Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm based in Palo Alto, California, with an office in San Francisco. It invests in early-stage companies across the United States and Canada, particularly in software, consumer services, financial technology, healthcare, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. The firm typically partners with founders at the seed stage and provides support with product development, marketing, business development, and financing.

TSVC is a venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California, focused on early stage deep tech startups. It backs founders in areas such as software as a service, artificial intelligence, fintech, biotechnology, blockchain, semiconductors, robotics and advanced manufacturing, with a preference for immigrant founded ventures. The firm has supported a broad portfolio across technology sectors and has backed leading companies including Zoom, Ginkgo Bioworks and Carta, among others, contributing to the growth of the deep tech ecosystem. TSVC concentrates on the next wave of innovation at the intersection of AI, hardware and energy systems and aims to help founders build globally impactful companies.

PLG Ventures is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm that provides pre-seed and seed funding to technology-enabled startups. The firm takes a hands-on approach, working closely with founding teams to develop leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and company culture, while helping to establish a solid foundation for scalable growth and a streamlined fundraising process. Its investment approach emphasizes early-stage technology ventures and active partnership throughout a company’s lifecycle, offering strategic guidance and operational support to accelerate development and scale.

Redpoint eventures is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2012 as a collaboration between Redpoint Ventures and e. ventures. It focuses on early-stage investments in Brazilian companies across consumer services, information technology, retail, and media. The firm supports founders with deal sourcing, insight, company building, financing, and exit opportunities by combining local and international venture capital perspectives. It operates the Redpoint CUBO Network, a Latin American technology entrepreneurship hub that connects entrepreneurs, investors, and universities to foster innovation, and emphasizes a disciplined approach to data privacy and compliance while helping ambitious founders pursue global growth.

Panda Capital is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm established in 2015 that backs early-stage technology companies in China, from angel rounds to Series B, focusing on fast-growing sectors such as data-driven AI applications, enterprise services, fintech, logistics, mobility and transportation, and new generation consumer trends. The firm pursues a disciplined, research-driven approach and aims to be a primary or early institutional investor for its portfolio companies, including Mobike, now Meituan Bike, among others. It maintains a broad tech focus and has a track record of supporting investments across technology-enabled businesses in China.

Brinc is a global venture accelerator and early-stage investor headquartered in Hong Kong. It operates multidisciplinary accelerator programs across several countries, focusing on blockchain, artificial intelligence, hardware and IoT, climate tech, food tech, and related technologies to help startups scale. Brinc partners with corporations, governments, and institutions to source and support innovative startups, develop distributed innovation strategies, and build Web3-enabled ventures. The company provides founders with resources such as training, mentorship networks, and online tools, and maintains a broad ecosystem through collaborations and co-investment opportunities, with recent expansion into North America and strategic ecosystem initiatives.

Frontline Ventures is a Dublin-based venture capital firm with offices in London and San Francisco that backs B2B technology companies pursuing cross-Atlantic growth. It operates two funds: Frontline Seed, supporting early European startups expanding to the United States, and Frontline Growth, funding US growth-stage companies expanding into Europe, while offering strategic guidance from a team of experienced investors and operators with deep knowledge of both markets. The firm emphasizes value-added partnerships, leveraging its international network to help founders navigate global expansion, and its portfolio includes notable software and platform companies such as Workvivo, Vanta, Lattice and Navan.

Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies across the United States, with offices in Champaign, Chicago, and Park City. It focuses on information technology, deep technology, instrumentation, software-as-a-service, devices, and agricultural technologies, prioritizing growth-oriented startups in B2B and tech-enabled sectors. The firm has funded a broad portfolio across healthcare, fintech, agtech, and artificial intelligence, and emphasizes providing strategic guidance and ecosystem connections to help portfolio companies scale. Serra Ventures pursues selective opportunities in international settings while maintaining a strong U.S. presence.

InnoSpring is the holding company for a multinational ecosystem that includes technology industrial parks, incubators, and venture capital activities. With about 15 years of experience, it operates a vertically integrated platform to support entrepreneurs and drive technological innovation. The company maintains a transnational footprint across the United States, China, and Germany (where a park is under development), and it focuses on intelligent manufacturing through an industrial internet approach that connects R&D, start-ups, and industry applications. Its core platforms include the Nantong Chuangyuan Science and Technology Park, the Jiading Industrial Internet Park in Shanghai, and the New Micro Inno Source incubator in Jiading, providing coworking, incubation, acceleration, and park operations. InnoSpring collaborates with academic and innovation partners to advance AI-enabled manufacturing and conducts research programs such as the InnoX intelligent manufacturing series with institutions like Tsinghua University. The firm pursues high-quality regional development under the ONE GOOD INNOSPRING vision.

NEW Capital Management is a Wisconsin-based venture capital firm headquartered in Little Chute. It provides seed through growth-stage capital to companies in manufacturing, information technology, life and material sciences, and agriculture, with a focus on opportunities headquartered in or near Wisconsin, especially Northeast Wisconsin. Typical investment sizes range from $0.5 million to $4.5 million per company, with a potential total transaction size up to $10 million when co-investors participate. The firm pursues exits in about five years through sale of portfolio companies.

Forum Ventures is a founder-first venture platform focused on B2B software, established in 2014 (originally Acceleprise). It operates as a venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund that supports early-stage B2B SaaS startups from concept to growth. The model combines hands-on venture studio involvement from the start, an accelerator program to accelerate early-stage companies, and a pre-seed fund to finance and back founders, along with a supportive community of over 1,300 founders. Forum provides fundraising and product development assistance, including customer discovery and product-market fit, and leverages a network to help raise capital from leading firms such as Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures among others. The organization runs Forum For Founders, a pre-seed program with funding and mentorship in a 15-week format focused on go-to-market and fundraising, and it maintains a portfolio of over 250 B2B SaaS companies. Based in New York, Forum Ventures targets AI, health tech, fintech, supply chain, and related sectors within B2B software.

Societe Generale is a leading European financial services group offering retail, corporate, and investment banking, as well as securities services and asset management. It serves about 27 million clients across 58 countries and employs roughly 110,000 people. The group provides financing, advisory, and risk management across its networks, supporting consumers, businesses, and public sector clients. Its activities span retail banking, corporate and investment banking, structured finance, payments, and wealth and asset management, with a focus on sustainable finance and climate initiatives. Societe Generale pursues growth through innovation, cross-border services, and global market access, financing infrastructure and energy transition projects, and enabling digital payments and international trade. The company emphasizes responsible growth and inclusion through programs and partnerships aimed at gender equality, biodiversity, and community development.

Beyond Capital Fund is a nonprofit, evergreen impact investment fund based in New York that invests in seed-stage and early-stage for-profit social enterprises in East Africa and India. It supports companies focused on improving access to healthcare, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion to enhance the lives of low-income communities. The fund seeks market-rate returns while prioritizing its social mission, funded by philanthropic donations and reinvesting proceeds to sustain and grow impact over time.

Impanix Capital was a venture and growth capital investment firm based in Delhi, India. It invested in startups at early and growth stages.

Anthill Ventures is a global venture capital firm applying a speed-scaling model to back early-stage startups, with a focus on Urbantech, Lifestyle, Healthtech, and Mediatech. Headquartered in Hyderabad, India, and with a Singapore office, it invests from pre-Series A to Series A/B and aims to achieve growth within 1-2 years through scale-up capital, market access, and a technology platform to maximize returns. The firm has funded more than 80 companies across ten countries, supported by more than 70 mentors in its speed-scaling network, and its portfolio spans media, wellness, life sciences, automotive, aerospace, semiconductors, agriculture technology, cybersecurity, and water technology. It emphasizes cross-border market access, especially in India and Southeast Asia, to help startups demonstrate market proof, unit economics, and traction.

Sputnik ATX is a venture capital firm and startup accelerator based in Austin, Texas. It funds early-stage startups, with a focus on founders outside Silicon Valley, offering a two-cohort-per-year program that pairs capital with hands-on support. Investments typically begin around $100,000 via a SAFE, with potential follow-on funding in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The program provides strategy, design, training, mentoring, and a collaborative community, while avoiding board seats and fees to emphasize founder needs and rapid progress.

Higher Ground Labs is a Chicago-based venture capital firm and accelerator focused on technology for political campaigns, advocacy, and civic engagement. It invests in early-stage startups developing software and platforms used by campaigns, advocacy groups, and public-interest organizations, and provides accelerator programs and ongoing support to help founders refine products, scale operations, and navigate the political technology landscape. Since 2017, the firm has supported dozens of startups across multiple funds, funding initiatives ranging from voter outreach and fundraising to organizing, communications, and civic infrastructure, and it builds a network that connects users, creators, and political organizations. The organization also shares insights on the sector through research and reports to strengthen the broader political tech ecosystem.

Cascade Seed Fund is a Bend, Oregon-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that makes early-stage investments in startups, with a focus on artificial intelligence, fintech, software and other technology sectors. It backs founders solving business problems once considered too hard to scale, supporting ventures at pre-seed and seed stages.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate focused on supporting LGBTQ+ founders and leaders, investing in companies across stages and sectors and prioritizing inclusive teams and governance. It operates a global portfolio of companies and provides capital alongside resources to recruit diverse talent for C-suite and board roles. The network emphasizes collaboration among investors, operators, and entrepreneurs to advance positive social change through business.

Braxton Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore that invests in early-stage startups and mid-market companies across Southeast Asia. The firm provides investment, advisory, and growth acceleration services, focusing on sectors such as financial services, insurance, impact investments, and healthcare, with interest in opportunities across the South Asia region.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The firm invests in software-enabled businesses across stages, from seed through growth, with a focus on artificial intelligence, healthcare, consumer technologies, fintech, crypto, enterprise software, and infrastructure. Beyond providing capital, the firm offers portfolio companies practical support through a structured ecosystem of technical advisors, executive talent, and industry operators to accelerate growth and scale. It is known for its broad technology focus and aims to build lasting companies from Silicon Valley to global markets.

Daphni is a Paris-based venture capital firm, founded in 2015, that invests primarily from seed to Series A in European and US startups. The firm focuses on technology-enabled ventures with potential for societal impact, including deeptech and science-led applications across biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and life sciences, and operates as a mission-driven, B Corp-certified investor supported by a community of hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives, academics and experts. Daphni uses its proprietary Flamel open-innovation platform to strengthen investment decisions and portfolio support. It manages multiple funds, including Dastore, a Carrefour-partnered fund to back early-stage commerce startups, and Time4, a seed fund backing entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds and untapped markets. The firm invests across sectors such as financial services, information technology, SaaS, advertising technology, digital health and fintech, prioritizing long-term value and sustainable impact over short-term trends.

ICONIQ Capital is a global multi-family office and investment firm based in San Francisco with additional offices in New York, Palo Alto, Singapore, and London. It serves influential families and organizations by providing financial advisory, family office services, and direct investments across asset classes. The firm concentrates its investing in technology-focused opportunities, including enterprise software, fintech, information technology and software-as-a-service, as well as AI, machine learning, big data analytics, and related digital infrastructure, with activity across North America, Europe and beyond. It acts as a trusted advisor and partner across investment opportunities, governance, and global impact, leveraging an extensive ecosystem to support portfolio companies from early growth through expansion. It operates as a registered investment adviser and manages substantial assets, emphasizing long-term value creation for clients and their communities.

24Haymarket is a London-based private equity and venture capital firm that focuses on growth-stage technology companies across the United Kingdom and Europe. The firm targets sectors including digital healthcare, cyber security, climate tech, supply chain and logistics technology, enterprise software, fintech, and related digital disciplines. It typically invests between £1 million and £5 million, often takes a board seat, and supports portfolio companies with hands-on strategic guidance, leveraging a network of experienced founders, operators, and industry leaders. Since its inception in the early 2010s, it has deployed significant capital across dozens of high-growth businesses, emphasizing active partnership, operational support, and strategic exits. The approach centers on partnering with entrepreneurs to accelerate growth and create value through liquidity events.

Notation Capital is a Brooklyn-based venture capital firm that concentrates on pre-seed and early-stage technology startups. It backs product-obsessed founding teams at the earliest stages, often before a market or product is fully in place, and provides capital and strategic help to navigate go-to-market and scaling. The firm focuses on the New York region and broad sectors including hard tech, infrastructure, software, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, health technology, and related areas such as logistics and energy. Notation Capital emphasizes hands-on involvement and direct engagement with founders, pairing investment with operational support and access to a network of advisors, mentors, and potential collaborators. Through this approach, it aims to accelerate the development of technical companies and contribute to a community that connects founders with experienced investors and industry experts.

Kapor Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in tech-enabled startups that aim to generate social impact. Based in Oakland, California, the firm was founded in 1999 and concentrates on supporting companies across sectors such as education, health, fintech, work, and consumer finance, with a particular emphasis on platforms that improve access and opportunity. Kapor Capital seeks to back ventures that prioritize diversity, inclusion, and measurable outcomes, often partnering with founders from underrepresented backgrounds to advance economic opportunity. While open to opportunities across the United States, the firm emphasizes investments in gap-closing information technology and data-driven solutions that align business growth with positive social impact. The approach combines financial returns with accountability on outcomes, helping portfolio companies scale while reporting progress on diversity and impact metrics.

New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm founded in 1977 and based in Menlo Park, California. It provides capital and operational support to companies across development stages, from seed to IPO, with a focus on technology and healthcare sectors. The firm collaborates with founders to address technical challenges, offering domain expertise to assist product development and market expansion. NEA invests across the United States, Asia and Brazil, and its portfolio includes software, consumer technology, medical devices, life sciences, healthcare information technology, and energy technology companies. With a long track record of helping entrepreneurs achieve growth, NEA emphasizes enduring partnerships and strategic guidance alongside funding to build transformational businesses through multiple stages of a company lifecycle.

HearstLab is the venture capital arm of Hearst Communications, based in New York. It funds early-stage, women-led technology startups, focusing on seed and Series A rounds in enterprise technology, data analytics, fintech, healthcare, media, and transportation, with portfolio companies led by female founders who hold decision-making equity. In addition to capital, HearstLab provides hands-on support across legal, sales, marketing, finance, fundraising, and engineering, and connects portfolio companies to Hearst's resources, networks, and customer opportunities through a founder community of over 90 women founders and a global scout network. The program leverages Hearst's ecosystem of hundreds of businesses to help portfolio companies scale and access strategic partnerships, and maintains international partnerships to expand impact.

Telescope Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm based in San Francisco, California, that targets growth investments in software and technology companies in North America. The firm focuses on B2B and enterprise software, employing a thesis-driven approach and providing more than capital through strategic guidance and founder-centric partnership to help portfolio companies scale. It supports companies through pivotal growth moments with experienced operators and hands-on assistance, aiming to build long-term, sustainable businesses.