Refactor Capital is a Burlingame, California-based venture capital firm focusing on seed- and early-stage investments in hard technology, biotechnology, health, climate, and related sectors. The firm is led by Zal Bilimoria, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a veteran product and engineering executive with experience at Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, who typically leads seed rounds with checks in the 1–2 million range.

Reach Capital is a venture capital firm focused on education technology and related sectors. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, it concentrates on early-stage investments in startups that develop technology tools, applications, content, and services to improve educational opportunities across K-12, higher education, and workforce reskilling. The firm backs edtech solutions for schools, districts, and learners, and aims to catalyze further investment in the growing edtech market. By supporting companies across B2B and B2C models, Reach Capital seeks to advance educational software and services that enhance learning outcomes and access throughout the United States.

Owl Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that specializes in education technology investments across early childhood, K-12, higher education and career learning. The firm maintains a hands-on approach to help edtech startups scale into category-leading companies and has invested in around two dozen education technology companies, leveraging deep domain expertise to guide product development, deployment and growth.

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.

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.

Goodwater Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame. It focuses on early-stage investments in consumer technology and related sectors, including housing, financial services, software, healthcare, education, and entertainment. The firm seeks to empower exceptional entrepreneurs solving pressing problems and believes consumer technology can reshape culture and the global economy. By backing founders who create products and platforms that consumers love, Goodwater aims to drive significant, scalable impact and improve billions of lives.

Rethink Education provides a cloud-based platform that enables organizations to design simple mobile-first courses for employees or students, accessible on any device at any time with minimal data usage, and eliminates the need for local backup or storage. The solution focuses on delivering training and educational content across devices, ensuring reliable access without device-specific constraints.

Learn Capital is a venture capital firm focused on education technology. It invests in early to mid-stage edtech startups worldwide, funding innovative learning platforms, content and services that expand access to education. The firm emphasizes global reach, including opportunities in emerging markets, and maintains offices in San Mateo, California; Austin, Texas; and Beijing, China.

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.

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.

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.

Emerge is a London-based venture capital firm and accelerator focused on education technology and the future of learning and work. It funds early-stage startups, typically at pre-seed and seed rounds, with small initial checks and minority ownership, often around 8% equity, and an option to participate in up to 20% of the next round at a discount. The organization offers mentorship, advisers, and independent board members drawn from its network of edtech and future-of-work leaders to help portfolio companies reach product-market fit and progress toward Series A. It operates mainly in the United Kingdom and Europe, investing in schools and higher education tech with strong market potential. The network includes over 100 founders and executives who back the firm’s portfolio.

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.

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

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.

Kapor Capital is an Oakland, California-based venture capital firm that serves as the investing arm of the Kapor Center for Social Impact. It focuses on seed and early-stage tech-enabled startups that can generate positive social impact, with emphasis on platforms and information technology that address urgent social needs. The firm backs companies across sectors including education, health, fintech, work, finance, justice, environment, food, and consumer services, often prioritizing diversity and inclusive business models and supporting minority- and women-owned ventures. It operates primarily in the United States and seeks investments that combine financial returns with social outcomes, aiming to close gaps in access and opportunity.

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

Educapital is a Paris-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage edtech companies across Europe, Israel and the United States. It focuses on education technology and related learning sectors, including talent management, recruitment, content and platforms, tools and hardware for learning, and innovative schools. The firm targets seed to growth investments and seeks to back companies with the potential to become European and global leaders, leveraging a large edtech community to support portfolio companies.

NewSchools Venture Fund is a philanthropy-driven investment organization founded in 1998 that supports innovation in public education. It funds and mentors education entrepreneurs pursuing solutions aimed at closing the achievement gap, with emphasis on underserved communities. As a venture philanthropy firm, it blends charitable grants and investments to back nonprofit and for-profit education ventures, including education technology tools, charter school initiatives, and services that improve school outcomes. The organization provides capital, incubation support, and strategic guidance to teams across the United States, with a focus on scalable, high-impact models that can reach more students. Based in Oakland, California, NewSchools coordinates with donors and policymakers to advance effective solutions and share evidence about what works in education.

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

Brighteye Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm that specializes in education technology. It backs seed and Series A startups operating at the intersection of learning, entertainment, and creativity, with the goal of expanding human potential. The firm leverages experience across technology, education, media, and venture capital to help portfolio companies refine products, form partnerships, and scale across geographies. It targets software and EdTech companies and supports opportunities across North America, Europe, and Israel, seeking ventures that use technology and industry know-how to build competitive, globally scalable businesses.

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

Edventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Nahdet Misr Publishing House, based in Giza, Egypt. It incubates, accelerates and invests in startups operating in education, culture and innovative learning solutions, focusing on seed and pre-Series A rounds with emphasis on Egypt, Africa and the Arab World. It provides technical and financial support tailored to each company's needs and maturity level to help ensure market success and continuity.

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.

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.

Wayra is a corporate venture arm and innovation hub connected to Telefónica, operating as a global accelerator and open-innovation platform that links startups and scaleups with the Telefónica group. With a presence in ten countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, Wayra collaborates with entrepreneurs to identify and develop joint business opportunities. It serves as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, providing access to networks, capital, mentorship, and potential pilot deployments. Wayra runs accelerator programs and themed calls, such as the Wayra Call and the Health Hub with partners, to support tech startups across sectors like health tech, cybersecurity, smart city, and IT, aiming to scale startups through engagement with Telefónica's global assets and corporate partnerships.

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.

ZhenFund is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Bob Xu and Victor Wang in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. Headquartered in Beijing, it focuses on seed and early-stage investments, supporting entrepreneurs with mentorship, resources, and a large network. The firm has a portfolio of more than 800 companies, including numerous unicorns in China, and offers services such as biannual demo days, ZhenHR, marketing and PR consulting, and fundraising assistance. Its extensive CEO network enhances collaboration among entrepreneurs, notably through its WeChat platform. ZhenFund has earned recognition as a leading early-stage investor for multiple years, and its founders and partners have frequently appeared on prestigious lists such as the Midas List, reflecting its prominence in China’s startup ecosystem.

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.

Omidyar Network is an impact investing firm founded in 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar. It supports social entrepreneurs through both investments and grants, aiming to improve lives and communities by funding organizations that harness technology and innovation. The firm operates as a philanthropic investment organization, focusing on catalyzing social impact across areas such as access to capital, media, markets and transparency, governance, citizen engagement, and information access. It backs both for profit and non-profit ventures, spanning seed to growth stages, and emphasizes responsible tech, digital inclusion, and strengthening institutions and democratic processes. The organization seeks to empower individuals and communities through investments that promote better governance, informed citizenship, and thriving communities worldwide.

IDG Capital is a global investment firm that backs technology-focused companies across stages, from early to growth. With a blend of international reach and local market insight, the firm mobilizes resources to help portfolio companies scale in China, Asia, and beyond. It partners with private equity and venture capital fund managers and other investment entities, drawing on a broad base of limited partners including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutions, and family offices. The team combines deep local knowledge with global perspectives to identify opportunities and provide strategic support, governance, and access to networks that accelerate growth. IDG Capital targets software, information technology, consumer and healthcare sectors, among others, and pursues a long-term value strategy through active collaboration with management teams and ecosystem players rather than short-term financing alone.

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.

Flat6Labs is a Cairo-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator in the MENA region. Since 2011 it has built a network of startup programs that support entrepreneurs from pre-seed through pre-Series A, and operates offices across the region including Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Manama, and Tunis. The firm regularly funds more than 100 startups annually and provides a range of investment tickets from 50,000 to 500,000, supported by a broad investor network and extensive mentorship, investor, and corporate connections. Flat6Labs focuses on accelerating the growth of technology-driven startups by combining capital with mentorship, partnerships, and opportunities to scale regionally.

LearnStart is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in education technology companies at the seed and early stages. Founded in 2017, the firm focuses on supporting edtech startups with initial funding and strategic guidance to reach scale and global markets.

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.

Inflection Point Ventures is an Indian angel investor network based in Gurgaon, founded in 2018. It connects startups in early to mid stages with a broad network of institutional and individual investors, including CXOs, high-net-worth individuals and family offices, to provide capital, mentorship and market access. The organization emphasizes accessibility and transparency in angel investing, with a low membership fee and small initial investment per investor, supported by extensive upfront due diligence led by industry experts. It operates across multiple sectors, including healthcare, software, clean technology, deep technology, e-commerce, edtech, fintech, gaming and social platforms, HR tech, IoT, logistics, mobility, proptech, retail technology, sports and fitness, and consumer durables. By leveraging its network, Inflection Point Ventures aims to assist entrepreneurs with guidance, customer acquisition and strategic connections, helping founders scale startups in diverse domains.

ah! Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm established in 2009 that invests in early-stage startups. The firm is described as a curated, sector-agnostic fundraising platform for Indian startups seeking capital, supported by a large network of investors including thousands of angel, institutional, and family-office investors. It reports a high-volume deal flow and positions itself as a premier aggregator in India's startup ecosystem, aiming to catalyze growth across a broad range of sectors.

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.

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.

Better Capital is a Santa Clara, California-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. It targets opportunities in finance technology, artificial intelligence, software, education technology, cryptocurrency, infrastructure, health technology, agriculture technology, gaming, climate technology, and B2B and B2C markets. The firm emphasizes profitability and constructive portfolio support. It operates an internal portfolio of product businesses under Better Labs, which develops and funds ventures such as ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple Wall, and Maroun Place. Founded in 2006, the firm focuses on guiding early-stage startups toward sustainable growth.

Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that supports high‑impact entrepreneurs through a global network spanning nearly 40 countries. It backs more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in combined revenues, employ more than 3.9 million people, and attracted more than $4 billion in capital in 2020. The organization offers an entrepreneur‑first model that connects founders with mentors, peers, and opportunities to scale and pay it forward. Its global ecosystem includes affiliates such as Endeavor Miami, which focuses on early‑stage technology firms and reflects the network’s regional and sectoral reach.

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and based in Singapore, investing in technology startups across Southeast Asia, including Singapore and Indonesia. It provides early-stage investments and, as described by sources, supports a multi-stage approach from seed to growth across sectors such as e-commerce, software, fintech, health tech, edtech, crypto, logistics, and AI. The firm has backed notable Southeast Asian tech companies, illustrating an active role in developing the regional startup ecosystem and supporting portfolio companies through growth in dynamic markets.

High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies in Germany. Based in Bonn with an additional office in Berlin, it operates as a public-private partnership that supports high-tech startups across information technology, software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry and related fields. HTGF provides initial funding and follow-on capital to eligible young companies, often taking minority stakes and participating as lead or co-investor, while offering hands-on guidance from experienced investment managers and startup experts. Since its founding in 2005, the firm has backed numerous startups and facilitated the growth of portfolio companies through multiple funds aimed at early stages. The model combines both public support, involving government and financial institutions, with private investor participation to nurture startups from concept to market.

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.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that backs technology companies from seed stage through growth rounds. It targets a broad range of sectors including AI, cloud and software, fintech, robotics, life sciences, media, and mobility, and pursues global investments across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and resources for portfolio companies, aiming to help them scale beyond financing. It operates a pure investment fund alongside corporate venture funds formed with leading public companies across telecom, real estate, financial services, beverages, agriculture and food, logistics, and electronics.

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.

City Light Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 that conducts early- and growth-stage investments in United States companies. It backs teams building category-defining solutions across education, safety and care, and the environment, as well as technology-enabled sectors such as digital health, climate, energy, agriculture, and IoT. The firm pursues impact-oriented investments designed to scale revenue and improve lives by partnering with experienced entrepreneurs to build durable, market-leading businesses. City Light emphasizes aligning financial returns with social and environmental outcomes and acts as an active, hands-on investor across a broad range of sectors addressing societal challenges.

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.

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

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.