FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda, the firm is stage-agnostic, prioritizing seed and Series A investments in scalable businesses with strong unit economics and potential to become market leaders. Typical checks run from fifty thousand to five million dollars. FJ Labs leverages a broad network to support portfolio companies in fundraising and growth and frequently co-invests with other global funds to amplify impact. The firm emphasizes rapid decision-making to speed deployment and pursues opportunities in large economies with mature venture ecosystems.
Antler is a global venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Singapore that invests in technology companies and incubates startups across diverse sectors. It supports founders from day one with a worldwide community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, and expansion support, complemented by capital to help launch and scale ventures. Through regional funds and programs, Antler backs early-stage ventures across geographies, facilitating collaboration among founders and providing resources to help teams recruit, validate ideas, and enter markets.
Global Founders Capital is a global venture capital firm and platform established by Rocket Internet, founded in 2013 and based in Berlin. It operates as a stage-agnostic investor that backs early-stage technology companies worldwide, working with exceptional founders across diverse sectors and providing support from the initial growth phase. The firm emphasizes global reach and seeks opportunities in software and technology sectors, aiming to help high-potential teams scale rapidly.
Citigroup is a global diversified financial services firm that provides a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions. It operates primarily through two segments: Global Consumer Banking, which offers traditional retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and related services to individual customers, and Institutional Clients Group, which delivers wholesale banking products and services including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivatives, research, corporate lending, investment banking and advisory, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a worldwide footprint with operations across multiple regions and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility as part of its growth and economic progress initiatives.
Bossa Invest is a venture capital investment firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. It focuses on software as a service investments and provides investment services to clients, informed by market trend analysis, and serves sectors such as finance, technology, and real estate.
QED Investors is a venture capital firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, with an additional office in New York City. Founded in 2007, it concentrates on fintech and financial services, investing from seed and early ventures through growth rounds. It backs companies that disrupt finance with software, payments, data, and digital platforms, combining capital with hands-on support to accelerate scale. The firm emphasizes data-driven decision making and direct engagement with portfolio companies, fostering experimentation and learning. Although active globally, its investments target the United States, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and related markets in Southeast Asia. QED operates as a venture capital adviser and investor, focusing on disruptive financial services firms and associated technology while taking a proactive, founder-friendly approach.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000 and based in Menlo Park, California. It invests across the startup lifecycle, from seed to growth, in sectors including enterprise technology, consumer, fintech, health, and cleantech, with a focus on software, internet, mobile, and other technology-enabled businesses. The firm operates internationally with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya Pituach, enabling it to back entrepreneurs across the United States, Asia, and Israel.
Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire. It connects accredited individual investors with startup deals and co-invests alongside established venture capital firms across multiple stages, from seed to growth. The firm provides access to diversified portfolios through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, supported by a large network of community members and individual investors. It invests across sectors and geographies, with a focus on transparency and due diligence in collaborative investments with leading firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. Alumni Ventures operates internationally with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo and has raised substantial capital to back founders with strategic capital and resources.
Tiger Global Management is a New York-based investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital to private and public markets worldwide, with a focus on technology, internet, consumer and financial services sectors, and regions including the United States, China, India, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The firm employs public equity strategies such as long/short and growth, alongside private investments across early to late stages, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and supporting portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle.
Andreessen Horowitz is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It backs technology companies across stages, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software and services, fintech, consumer internet, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and life sciences applications at the intersection of computer science and biology. The firm emphasizes long-term support for entrepreneurs, offering capital and resources to help companies scale, and operates through multiple investment vehicles to fund early and later-stage opportunities. Its portfolio targets information technology, software-enabled businesses, and technology-enabled services, reflecting a commitment to innovation and leadership in American technology.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It provides capital alongside strategic guidance to a select set of companies across information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, supporting them from early ideas through growth and even IPO stages. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships, working closely with leadership teams on product development, company building, and market expansion. Sequoia pursues opportunities at seed, early, and growth stages and maintains a global reach, investing in companies across the United States and other major markets, with interests in AI and other emerging technologies.
Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is an early and growth-stage investor that backs entrepreneurs building world-class technology companies across software, consumer, enterprise IT, information technology, healthcare, fintech, security, and media sectors. The firm emphasizes a global community of founders, operators, and resources, providing more than capital to help portfolio companies scale. Its investments span geographies including the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and other regions, and its portfolio has included notable companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, and many others. With decades of experience, Accel partners with teams to turn early-stage ideas into category-defining businesses and to accelerate growth through strategic guidance and networks. The firm focuses on practical, long-term support for scalable technology ventures.
Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada. It engages in private equity and venture investments, focusing on technology and financial services sectors, including early-stage investments in exchange-related startups and opportunities in buyouts and distressed assets, often pursuing majority stakes.
Goodwater Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame. It concentrates on early-stage investments in consumer technology companies and seeks to empower entrepreneurs who are building products and platforms that reshape everyday life. The firm backs ventures across a broad range of sectors, including housing, financial services, consumer products and services, healthcare, food, transportation, education, entertainment, and information technology and software. Through its investments, Goodwater Capital aims to drive meaningful, scalable impact and help improve lives on a global scale.
Ribbit Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Meyer Malka. It invests globally in early-stage financial services and technology-focused companies, backing entrepreneurs who aim to disrupt traditional finance. The firm targets information technology, mobile, software, and insurance technology sectors within financial services, supporting ventures from inception through growth.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. Founded in 2000 and based in the United States, the firm backs startups across consumer, enterprise software, fintech, crypto, and health technologies, offering mentorship and strategic guidance to help ideas scale. It participates in seed and growth rounds, often taking minority or majority stakes, and supports portfolio companies with resources and networks across North America and Europe.
Tenity is a global innovation ecosystem and early-stage investor dedicated to the future of fintech and related industries. The organization runs two core engines: Innovation Partnerships, which collaborates with corporations and governments to design and operate innovative programs, and Venture Capital, investing in early-stage startups. Through a network of hubs, Tenity connects people, capital, and ideas, delivering funding initiatives, hackathons, accelerators, and market activation programs to startups, corporates, governments, and investors across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Established as a spin-off from SIX in 2016, Tenity has expanded its global footprint and strengthened its presence in the UK through strategic acquisitions. It focuses on fintech, insurtech, Web3, and digital health, with activities spanning Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and APAC regions.
Outlier Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm established in 2014 that concentrates on early-stage investments in the crypto and Web3 space. It operates Base Camp, a scalable accelerator launched in 2019 to fund and mentor projects across DeFi, NFTs and blockchain infrastructure, including those pursuing metaverse use cases. The firm maintains a blockchain-agnostic approach and emphasizes user sovereignty within an Open Metaverse framework. Through its portfolio, partnerships and advisory services, Outlier Ventures supports the growth of Web3 ecosystems and aims to accelerate a large pipeline of startups, positioning itself as a leading and highly active investor in the crypto space by deal volume.
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups. Founded in 2011 and based in Vienna, Austria, it operates across Europe with offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco, and serves founders from pre-seed to growth stages. The firm runs sector-focused investment teams in Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions, and provides day-one access to a global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders and follow-on investors to help startups scale smarter and faster. It also offers an in-house Platform+ team of operational experts delivering growth marketing, HR, US business development and networking support throughout the company’s journey.
Endeavor is a global non-profit organization and network that identifies, supports, and mentors high-impact entrepreneurs. Through a rigorous selection process, it connects founders with mentors, peers, and resources to scale their businesses and contribute to their communities. The network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate over 28 billion in combined revenues and have created more than 3.9 million jobs, reflecting Endeavor’s focus on fostering sustainable growth and entrepreneurship ecosystems around the world.
Digital Currency Group is a corporate venture capital and investment firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, that builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by providing insights, networks, and access to capital. The company operates core platform assets including CoinDesk, Genesis Trading, and Grayscale Investments, and pursues investments in fintech, bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, platforms, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and other blockchain-related sectors.
Polychain Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that specializes in blockchain assets and related technologies. It invests in blockchain protocols and companies to advance the global adoption of cryptocurrencies and actively manages portfolios of digital assets, reflecting a focus on information technology, financial technology, and blockchain sectors.
Soma Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early-stage software companies. It emphasizes founder-led partnerships and seed investments across sectors such as B2B SaaS, AI, fintech, and other technology areas, with a focus on software-driven businesses poised to reshape industries. The firm has a notable portfolio of unicorns valued in the tens of billions, including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School, among others. By supporting founders with long-term partnerships and strategic guidance, Soma Capital aims to help portfolio companies scale globally.
Pantera Capital is a San Francisco Bay Area-based investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and blockchain-related companies. Founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, it began as a global macro hedge fund before shifting its focus to crypto and blockchain technology. The firm employs diverse strategies including venture equity, early-stage token investments, and liquid token opportunities, and has launched multiple crypto-focused funds to support the digital asset ecosystem.
Gaingels is a venture capital organization focused on supporting LGBTQ+ founders and leaders and their allies. It invests across stages and industries, building a global portfolio of 130+ companies and deploying around $70 million in capital. Beyond funding, Gaingels helps portfolio companies recruit diverse C-suite and board talent and fosters a global community of investors, operators, and entrepreneurs working toward inclusive leadership and positive social change through business.
Quona Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in financial technology and services companies in emerging markets to advance financial inclusion. It targets Africa, Latin America, and Asia with a focus on digital and consumer lending, payments, remittances, insurance, wealthtech, and related financial services, including platforms and channels that broaden access for underserved consumers and small businesses. The firm backs startups across stages from early and seed to growth via equity or equity-like investments, typically in the range of $1 million to $10 million. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Washington, DC, Quona maintains offices in Bengaluru, Lima, Cape Town, and Mexico City, concentrating on Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma. It provides seed- and early-stage capital to technology startups, occasionally supporting later rounds such as Series B, and often invests alongside co-investors. The firm emphasizes strategic introductions and hands-on guidance to help portfolio companies scale, with a focus on software, TMT, and other technology sectors. By partnering with founders and other investors, Liquid 2 Ventures aims to align capital with long-term company growth.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. It backs entrepreneurs across seed and growth stages and invests across consumer, enterprise and healthcare sectors. The firm has backed notable companies such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast, and it has about $19 billion in assets under management.
Flourish Ventures is a global early-stage venture capital firm that backs fintech founders whose innovations advance financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. Based in San Francisco, the firm deploys patient capital with a long-term perspective and manages about $850 million. Flourish collaborates with more than 70 global fintech founders and 18 ecosystem partners, including researchers, policy makers, and industry leaders, to foster a fairer, more inclusive economy. The firm targets early-stage companies across financial services, digital banking, embedded finance, insurtech, regtech, and related sectors, with a focus on global markets including the United States, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Valar Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm established in 2010 that makes early-stage technology investments, with a focus on financial technology. Backed by Peter Thiel, the firm partners with entrepreneurs worldwide, supporting startups that aim to scale rapidly and address global financial and digital transformation challenges, including ventures outside traditional tech hubs.
Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva that partners with entrepreneurs to turn bold ideas into global businesses. Founded in 1996, the firm backs technology-driven startups across sectors including artificial intelligence, data, software, fintech, healthcare, media, mobility, and consumer platforms, providing early and growth-stage funding along with hands-on support to scale product, go-to-market, and operations. It has backed notable companies such as Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell, reflecting a history of helping portfolio teams grow internationally. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and a collaborative approach to help startups realize global reach and market leadership.
Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2008, that makes seed and early-stage technology investments. The firm targets enterprise software, B2B and B2C applications, healthtech, sustainability, fintech, edtech, and blockchain, and backs internet-enabled consumer and business services, digital media, mobile, and online advertising ventures. It commonly co-invests with other angels or venture firms, with typical total investments ranging from $500,000 to $1 million. Ulu emphasizes backing diverse founding teams, including women, minority, immigrant, and URM founders, based on the view that diversity can drive profitability. The firm operates in the Bay Area, particularly Silicon Valley, and has a portfolio of high-growth technology companies.
Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park. It provides capital and strategic guidance to technology companies across stages, investing in sectors including artificial intelligence, digital health, sustainability, climate tech, and consumer technology. The firm seeks startups with innovative technologies or business models and offers hands-on support to help build enduring companies. It manages multiple funds and runs initiatives such as Khosla Impact, which supports high-impact for-profit ventures addressing the needs of low-income populations and emerging markets. Through funding and guidance, it backs transformative technologies and scalable businesses in the United States and globally.
Insight Partners is a global private equity and venture capital firm that partners with growth-stage software, internet, and data-services companies to accelerate revenue growth and long-term value. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in New York, it focuses on software-enabled sectors including Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare, and has backed more than 750 companies worldwide, with numerous portfolio companies achieving IPOs. The firm provides capital, hands-on operational guidance, and a broad network to help growing software companies move from product-market fit to IPO, assisting with product development, M&A, efficiency, and geographic expansion. As of 2022, Insight Partners reported over 75 billion in assets under management and maintains offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto to support its global portfolio.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital firm focused on financial services and technology-enabled sectors. It invests in fintech, insurance, lending, payments, personal finance, credit, and asset management, and supports portfolio companies through a global network of institutional allocators, policymakers, and hedge funds. Since its launch in 2015, the firm has invested in 96 fintech companies across North America, Europe, and Latin America, helping them scale with capital, strategic guidance, and access to resources within the Clocktower ecosystem.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm based in Munich, Germany. It pursues a long-term investment approach, making pre-seed to Series A investments in technology ventures across sectors such as financial services, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, crypto and web3, deeptech, and e-commerce. The firm partners with ambitious founders to build global category leaders, providing strategic guidance and operational support throughout the lifecycle of portfolio companies. Its approach combines disciplined financial analytics with entrepreneurial pragmatism, leveraging marketing and sales expertise, access to top talent, and a broad B2B and investor network to help portfolio companies scale, expand into new markets, and secure follow-on financing. Picus Capital emphasizes close collaboration with portfolio teams on key strategic decisions and operational challenges, aiming to accelerate growth while maintaining a flexible, long-horizon commitment.
Anthemis is a London-based independent investment firm and growth platform focusing on financial services technology, including fintech and insurtech. Founded in 2010, it seeks to accelerate innovation by investing in, supporting, and scaling early-stage and growth ventures across the United States and Europe. The firm aims to foster resiliency, transparency, access and equity in the financial system by backing startups, institutions and researchers that redesign how finance serves people. Through its multi-stage approach and collaboration with partners, Anthemis supports companies from pre-seed to Series A and beyond, helping them navigate market challenges and scale impact. The firm emphasizes principled investing and strives to advance a more inclusive and human-centered digital economy.
Nyca Partners is a venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2014, that focuses on financial technology. It connects fintech startups with financial institutions, technology companies, and experienced investors and advisors to facilitate partnerships and strategic growth.
Blockchain Founders Fund is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage blockchain and related technology companies globally. The company conducts venture-building programs and provides strategic advisory services, including consulting, media relations, and speaking engagements, to entrepreneurs and organizations ranging from startups to governments. Its focus spans blockchain, web3, metaverse, games, DeFi, and non-fungible tokens, with investments concentrated in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Founded in 2018, the firm emphasizes go-to-market support to accelerate growth and help clients capitalize on emerging opportunities in cryptocurrency, fintech, and digital transformation.
Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on seed to growth-stage technology companies and emphasizes a data-driven approach, leveraging AI and rigorous quantitative methods to model venture-backed private businesses. Tribe uses an underwriting infrastructure and quantitative tools, including a proprietary analysis framework nicknamed the Magic 8-ball, to distinguish signals from noise and assess factors driving growth. The team targets what it terms N-of-1 opportunities—companies with the potential for 10- to 100-fold growth—while aiming to minimize losses. With approximately $1.6 billion in assets under management, Tribe Capital has backed notable startups such as Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken, Instabase, Relativity Space, and Shiprocket. The firm combines investment expertise with data science to help portfolio companies understand their businesses and accelerate sustainable growth.
Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital firm based in Toronto that makes early-stage investments in Canadian financial technology companies with the potential for global impact, leveraging a network of investors and industry experts to support portfolio companies as they scale.
Seedcamp is a London-based venture capital firm and Europe's seed fund that identifies and invests early in world-class founders solving large, global problems with technology. It supports startups through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community, and a global network built on more than a decade of backing exceptional talent. Founded in 2007, Seedcamp backs early-stage companies across technology-enabled sectors in Europe and beyond.
DST Global is an investment firm that backs late-stage internet and technology companies, focusing on private markets and growth opportunities. It deploys capital through venture and private equity investments in established digital businesses, engages with founders and management to support development ahead of liquidity events, and performs due diligence to structure investments for institutional investors. The firm operates globally, funding opportunities across software, information technology, mobile, internet of things, e-commerce, and other internet economy sectors, and manages capital on behalf of institutional clients rather than retail investors. It maintains offices in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong, and has a registered presence in the Cayman Islands.
Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies, emphasizing capital-efficient startups across the United States and Canada. The firm targets pre-product-market-fit ventures and typically funds rounds in the tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands of dollars, with round sizes commonly ranging from 50K to 500K. It employs a data-driven, rapid decision process and makes a high volume of investments annually, aiming to provide a firm yes or no within roughly two weeks. The team comprises seasoned founders who bring hands-on experience, and the firm operates like an operating company, delivering post-investment support and broad diversification across a large portfolio. Its activity spans multiple states beyond traditional hubs, reflecting a broad geographic reach and an emphasis on backing entrepreneurs overlooked by mainstream venture capital.
Unpopular Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that concentrates on technology investments. It backs companies that are off the beaten path and has deployed approximately $75 million across about 500 startups since its inception, including Zepto, Jeeves, and Yassir. The firm maintains a high level of activity, investing around 30 to 40 companies each quarter, reflecting a broad and ongoing deal flow in the technology sector.
Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in innovative startups. It maintains a portfolio that includes companies emerging from Y Combinator and seeks opportunities across a broad range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial technology, information technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, education technology, real estate technology, autonomous vehicles, advertising technology, augmented reality, and SaaS and supply chain technologies. Founded in 2017, the firm focuses on nurturing early-stage companies with growth potential by providing strategic guidance and capital to help them scale.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests across seed to growth stages in science and technology companies addressing difficult problems. The firm backs ventures across sectors such as aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, consumer Internet, software, and related technologies, seeking transformative impact. It maintains a founder-friendly approach that emphasizes strong support with minimal interference. Founders Fund has backed notable companies including SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb, and pursues a global investment footprint across the United States and beyond.
Kaszek Ventures is a Latin America based venture capital firm established in 2011 with offices in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. It invests in high‑impact technology companies across stages, primarily seed and Series A, though it also engages in later‑stage opportunities through its growing funds. Beyond capital, the firm provides hands‑on support in strategy, operational execution, team building, growth, technology, product development, networking, and fundraising. Kaszek backs companies in software, fintech, education, healthcare, e‑commerce, marketplaces, and related tech sectors, with a regional focus on Latin America.
BoxGroup is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology startups from pre-seed to Series A across consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life sciences, marketplaces, and related sectors. The firm supports entrepreneurs working at the start of movements in existing markets or new markets yet to be created and seeks category-defining companies. It has invested across SaaS, mobile, biotech, climate tech, and other tech, with typical checks ranging from tens of thousands up to about one million dollars. BoxGroup targets opportunities in New York City, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles, takes a global investment view, and historically does not take board seats.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital and angel investment firm that backs early-stage software and technology-enabled companies across the United States. The firm provides business development, financing and strategic advisory services, including M&A support, leveraging its network to help founders at critical inflection points. Known for a high-volume approach, SV Angel evaluates and backs a broad slate of startups each year, aiming to accelerate growth and help build lasting companies through hands-on guidance and connections.