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.

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.

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.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital and angel investment firm that supports early-stage startups across the United States. Founded in 2009, the firm provides business development, financing, mergers and acquisitions guidance, and other strategic advice to portfolio companies, leveraging its networks to help founders at critical inflection points. SV Angel focuses on software and TMT sectors, including software-oriented consumer and enterprise initiatives, and acts as a hands-on partner to help startups grow, form strategic partnerships, secure financing, and pursue M&A opportunities.

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.

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.

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.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company based in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of electronics and device solutions. Its portfolio spans consumer electronics (mobile devices, televisions, home appliances, cameras), information technology products (PCs, peripherals, printers), semiconductors, memory and storage, and display technologies. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure and related services, and conducts extensive research and development to advance core technologies. With a global footprint across Korea, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of smartphones, memory chips, and displays, and it coordinates significant manufacturing and supply chain activities to support its varied product lines.

Felicis Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm that backs founders building iconic, boundary-transcending companies. It focuses on early-stage investments across software, information technology, consumer internet, AI, health, and security, and complements capital with active mentoring and advisory support. The firm pursues global opportunities, maintains a diverse portfolio, and has backed over 120 technology companies, with around 50 exits. It was founded by Aydin Senkut, a former Google executive, and emphasizes reinvention of core markets and frontier technologies.

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.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that provides seed-stage and early-stage investments to technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on technology companies across software, telecommunications, media, and other TMT sectors, offering early funding and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.

Entrepreneur First is a London-based accelerator and seed-stage technology investor that supports exceptional individuals to found technology companies. It uses a talent-first model, funding and mentoring people before teams form, and operates six-month programs in Europe and Asia with global offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Singapore, Bangalore, New York and San Francisco to connect founders with startup ecosystems. The organization funds early-stage ventures and takes an equity stake in the companies it helps establish, aiming to increase the supply of high-potential tech startups worldwide by pairing standout talent with mentorship and capital.

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.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 1972, the firm concentrates on early-stage, growth, and incubation investments, partnering with founders from inception through IPO and beyond. It backs ventures across technology-related sectors, including digital and information technology, life sciences, and healthcare, with a global reach that spans North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Mainland China.

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.

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.

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

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.

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology companies across the United States, with a focus on the Pacific Northwest and West Coast. It invests across stages from seed to growth, typically in information technology, software, consumer internet, digital media and advertising, fintech, data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, hardware and robotics, and often takes board seats in its portfolio companies. The firm supports early-stage to growth ventures, pursuing opportunities in areas such as the future of work and low-code/no-code, with typical investments ranging from $2 million to $10 million as lead investor.

First Round Capital is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm that backs technology startups from pre-seed through Series A. It offers capital, a founder-focused community, and services designed to help companies grow from inception, with partners who take an active role in portfolio companies. The firm invests nationally across sectors including healthcare, consumer technology, fintech, hardware, artificial intelligence, and web3, with offices in San Francisco and New York. It emphasizes resources beyond funding and has adopted a diversity term sheet rider to promote inclusive entrepreneurship.

Soma Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that focuses on software-driven startups and seed-stage investments. It backs companies across B2B software, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and consumer sectors, with a global footprint spanning Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. The firm has a track record of backing startups that grow into unicorns, reflecting an emphasis on founder-led software businesses with scalable models. Soma Capital operates as a registered investment adviser.

Motier Ventures is a Paris-based family office and early-stage tech investor associated with the Galeries Lafayette Group owners. It operates as a value-added angel investor, providing agile and patient capital to startups in the early days and following on in subsequent rounds. The firm focuses on future of commerce, fintech, creative technologies, consumer and gaming, cybersecurity, and related areas such as infrastructure, tooling, the future of work, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Motier leverages the owners' networks across Galeries Lafayette brands and affiliated businesses to support portfolio companies with strategic connections and scale. Investment ranges include up to €300k at seed and up to €3m in later rounds.

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.

Qiming Venture Partners is a China-based venture capital firm founded in 2006, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It manages USD and RMB funds totaling about 9.5 billion in capital and backs early- and growth-stage technology, consumer, and healthcare companies. The firm has backed more than 530 portfolio companies, with over 200 exits via IPOs or M&A, and more than 70 unicorn or super unicorn companies.

Greycroft is a venture capital firm based in New York and Los Angeles that concentrates on technology startups, with a focus on the Internet and mobile markets. The firm uses its extensive media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring products to market, and scale successful businesses. Since inception Greycroft has invested in more than 200 companies and manages over $1 billion in capital. Its investment scope spans consumer internet, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise software, reflecting a broad approach to funding early- and growth-stage ventures in technology sectors.

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.

Gradient Ventures is Google's AI-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm backs seed- and early-stage startups in artificial intelligence and machine learning, providing capital and access to Google’s technical leadership and ecosystem. It supports founders in developing and scaling AI-enabled products by sharing best practices in recruiting, design, marketing, and engineering, and by connecting portfolio companies with Google resources to navigate early product challenges and drive practical AI applications across industries.

Mizuho Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm affiliated with Mizuho Bank, Japan’s second-largest bank by assets. It manages about ¥49.6 billion and focuses on information technology and biotechnology investments, while also backing internet-related services, healthcare, medical, manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors. The firm traces its origins to a 2002 merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment, and its predecessors were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. It is regarded as one of Japan’s leading venture capital firms, with more than 600 Mizuho companies having gone public.

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

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.

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2008. It concentrates on early-stage technology investments across sectors such as information technology, wireless technology, software, internet services, online gaming, pharmaceuticals, and high-tech fields, with a regional focus on Korea and China. The firm seeks opportunities in artificial intelligence, ICT services, web3, games, and bio healthcare through Capstone Partners Korea, and aims to realize exits primarily via trade sales.

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.

Menlo Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1976 that provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. The firm uses market-driven analysis to identify investment opportunities across sectors such as marketplaces, consumer services, Dev/Ops, SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, and life sciences technology. Its portfolio includes numerous notable companies and more than 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, underscoring a track record of growth and successful exits. Menlo is active in supporting its portfolio companies through multiple stages of development and pursues investments across software, cloud infrastructure, and related technology areas.

Rebel Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that backs technology startups in the United States. It leverages a network of Y Combinator alumni and a proprietary machine learning model to assess startup potential, aiming to identify promising early-stage ventures with emphasis on education and training services, information technology, and healthcare.

M12 is the corporate venture capital arm of Microsoft, investing in B2B software startups across North America and Israel. It focuses on cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical software as a service, and Web3 and gaming, and backs companies from early stages through growth rounds, including Series A to C. The firm supports portfolio companies with access to Microsoft resources and runs an accelerator program to help later-stage startups scale.

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

Wing Venture Capital is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across seed, early, and growth stages, with a focus on software, business technology, and cloud-enabled innovations. The firm emphasizes deep engagement with founders and long-term support to build enduring companies by transforming business technology through data, mobile, and cloud paradigms. Its team brings two decades of experience and a track record across dozens of portfolio companies, with many achieving IPOs or acquisitions. Wing backs B2B software, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, big data, and related enterprise technology sectors.

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.

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that focuses on early-stage and growth investments to help build innovative companies. The firm backs teams with strong leadership and scalable business models across sectors including software, e-commerce, consumer and enterprise technology, information technology, and fintech, with additional interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain ventures. It combines entrepreneurial experience with investment acumen to identify next generation world-changing companies and provides strategic guidance and operational support to help founders scale.

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

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

Thrive Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 that focuses on internet, software, and technology-enabled companies. It invests across stages in software, internet, and tech-enabled sectors and supports portfolio companies with capital and strategic guidance to help them scale in dynamic markets.

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with an active presence in China through Beijing offices and RMB funds. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology. It backs entrepreneurs pursuing disruptive businesses with the potential to dominate large markets and supports portfolio companies through its globally oriented funds. GSR Ventures manages multiple funds totaling several billions of dollars and seeks opportunities in the United States and China across software, AI, and TMT sectors.

IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) is a late-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, that backs North American information technology companies. It focuses on growth-stage opportunities across sectors such as artificial intelligence, enterprise software, SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, digital health, gaming, and cryptocurrency, providing capital and strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale. The firm serves as a trusted partner to founders and executives seeking to accelerate growth and market leadership.

WiL (World Innovation Lab) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto with a Tokyo office, founded in 2013. It invests across seed to growth stages in technology companies in the United States and Japan, and broader Asia, focusing on sectors including consumer products and services, information technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, SaaS, fintech, insurtech, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, industrials, health tech, wellness and sustainability. The firm aims to bridge startups with corporate and government partners to accelerate global growth, helping U.S. and European startups scale with Japanese partners and enabling Japanese ventures to expand internationally. WiL collaborates with corporate investors to advance innovation capabilities, supports new business creation, partnerships and organizational change, and acts as a cross-border catalyst across key innovation hubs. It also pursues investments in venture funds and provides support to LPs in corporate venture initiatives.

KB Investment is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1990 as the investment arm of KB Financial Group. It manages assets through a venture and growth platform and backs early-stage startups, select buyouts, spinouts, turnaround situations, and growth capital. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including information technology, biotechnology and life sciences, healthcare, hardware and software, consumer products and services, and clean tech, with a primary focus on South Korea and selective international opportunities. It supports portfolio companies with hands-on guidance in strategy, operations and governance and leverages KB Financial Group’s network to aid growth and value creation. The firm is described as active in social ventures aligned with sustainable development goals, reflecting an emphasis on responsible investing alongside financial returns.

H20 Capital is a venture capital firm that backs disruptive entrepreneurs aimed at building large, lasting companies and creating new markets. It positions itself as a hands-on partner to help founders execute growth strategies and add value. The firm focuses on B2B enterprise software (SaaS), B2B marketplaces, and B2B fintech in Latin America and the United States, with a particular emphasis on LatinX and immigrant founders in the US.

Redpoint Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in California, with offices in Woodside, San Francisco, and Beijing and Shanghai. It backs startups across seed, early, and growth stages in technology, media, consumer internet, and enterprise software, including energy-related technology. The firm supports founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones and manages $4 billion across multiple funds.