General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000, based in San Francisco with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that funds and mentors startups from seed to growth stages. It focuses on enabling innovation across sectors such as consumer, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, crypto, and artificial intelligence by providing capital, strategic guidance, and network support to help portfolio companies scale and create lasting value.

Antler is a global venture capital firm and startup incubator based in Singapore that invests in early-stage technology companies and supports startups across sectors including healthcare, finance, consumer, and software. It builds a worldwide community of co-founders and provides access to talent, mentors, and expert advisors, along with expansion support and capital to help teams form, validate business models, and grow internationally. Antler emphasizes long-term partnerships with portfolio companies, continuing to back ventures through growth stages as they scale.

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.

Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm founded in 1996, with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva. It backs technology startups across stages from seed to growth in sectors including software, AI, fintech, healthcare, data, media, and consumer services. The firm provides capital and strategic support, helping teams assess business models, scale operations, and navigate financing rounds. Its broad network connects founders with investors, partners, and market opportunities to support growth across geographies. Index Ventures emphasizes long-term founder relationships and hands-on collaboration, offering guidance and resources to help companies reach global markets. It also launched Index Origin, a seed fund designed to support entrepreneurs from day one.

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.

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.

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.

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York. It invests in early-stage and growth companies across a wide range of sectors, including consumer, software, media, fintech, education technology, and internet services, supporting founders who pursue ambitious ideas and seek product-led strategies. The firm is known for backing prominent companies such as Twitter, Discord, Oculus, Warby Parker, Tumblr, Niantic, and others, reflecting a willingness to back disruptive teams and markets. Spark Capital emphasizes a founder-centric approach, prioritizing listening, product-market fit, independence of thought, and resilience, and aims to help portfolio companies scale on their own terms. By partnering across stages and geographies, the firm seeks to build enduring, value-driving businesses in the United States and beyond.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that targets early-stage, capital-efficient technology startups in the United States and Canada. The firm employs a data-driven, quantitative approach to investment decisions and aims for rapid yes-or-no conclusions, often within two weeks. Typical rounds encompass small checks in the low hundreds of thousands, with the potential for larger commitments in exceptional cases, and a portfolio-wide strategy that emphasizes diversification. Beyond capital, it provides hands-on mentorship in areas such as sales, marketing, and fundraising, leveraging a network of investors and seasoned operators to support portfolio companies after investment. The firm focuses on teams still refining product-market fit, including those outside traditional tech hubs, and seeks to help founders scale efficiently through structured operational support and transparent decision processes.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm concentrates on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups and is stage-agnostic, investing across seed and Series A rounds. It seeks scalable companies with strong unit economics and potential to become market leaders, often co-investing with other global funds to broaden its impact. FJ Labs emphasizes rapid decision-making and leverages its broad network to support portfolio companies in fundraising and growth, helping startups scale across large markets and ecosystems.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 1992 that concentrates on seed to early-stage technology investments, notably in software and AI, primarily in the United States. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders and provides strategic support, business development, financing and M&A advice, leveraging its extensive network to offer introductions and resources beyond capital. Its portfolio includes OpenAI, Databricks, Eventbrite, Cedar and Vercel, illustrating a track record of backing transformative technology companies and helping them grow.

Battery Ventures is a Boston-based technology-focused investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies since its founding in 1983. It pursues opportunities across software (application and infrastructure), consumer and industrial technology, and life science tools, supporting companies from early stages through growth and buyouts. The firm combines venture, growth equity, and private equity approaches to help portfolio companies scale, often leveraging sector expertise and a collaborative, hands-on approach. Its global reach includes investments and operations in North America, Europe, and Israel, with services that extend beyond capital to include talent acquisition and business development.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital platform founded by Rocket Internet that invests in early-stage technology companies worldwide. It operates as a globally oriented, stage-agnostic investor, partnering with exceptional founders across sectors and providing support from the initial growth phase through scale. The firm targets high-potential, rapidly expanding ventures and emphasizes impact and feasibility in evaluating opportunities. It is led by investment partners Cedric Asselman, David Sainteff, and Fabricio Pettena.

U.S. Venture Partners is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology and healthcare companies. With more than thirty years of operation, it helps entrepreneurs transform ideas into growth companies, focusing on enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, e-commerce, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The firm targets startups in information technology and healthcare that can scale in the United States, and in some cases Israel, and it emphasizes collaboration with teams that include former entrepreneurs, technologists, executives, and industry experts. USVP invests in software, healthcare, cybersecurity, and related technology-enabled sectors, supporting portfolio companies through early development and scale-up.

Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm based in Tokyo, founded in 1998, that backs technology startups worldwide and provides hands-on support and open innovation with large corporate partners. The firm targets early to growth-stage opportunities across sectors such as artificial intelligence, space, education, HR tech, life sciences, enterprise software, and consumer tech, with a global footprint in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. It has managed over 2.7 billion in assets and invested more than 1.4 billion across more than 1,300 deals, supporting hundreds of active portfolio companies and achieving a track record of IPOs and M&A exits. Global Brain emphasizes transformative growth through active portfolio management, strategic resources, and collaborations with corporate partners and institutional investors. The firm operates flagship funds and co-investment programs, and maintains engagement with a broad ecosystem to accelerate innovation.

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.

JAFCO is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1973. It invests across seed-, early-, and later-stage companies and also pursues growth investments through buyouts. The firm targets technology-driven sectors such as information technology, software as a service, healthcare and life sciences, consumer and business services, manufacturing, mobile, e-commerce, IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and other related fields. JAFCO supports portfolio companies beyond financing by assisting with human resources, marketing, sales, and back-office operations, aiming to help entrepreneurs bring their visions to life. With a global perspective, it manages funds and investments in Japan and overseas, seeking to create long-term value through active partnership and strategic capital allocation.

Gradient Ventures is Google's AI-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California. It invests in early-stage artificial intelligence startups and provides portfolio companies with access to Google's resources, technical leadership, and guidance across recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering to help bring AI-powered products to market.

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.

Drive Capital is a Columbus, Ohio-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that invests in technology, healthcare, and consumer companies across the Midwest and North America. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build large, sustainable companies by providing conviction, resources, and long-term support from early stages through rapid growth. Its portfolio spans software, information technology, fintech, cybersecurity, health tech, and other tech-enabled sectors, with an emphasis on leveraging local talent and customer bases to drive market impact. Drive Capital has raised multiple funds and, according to industry reports, manages billions in assets with a team of partners dedicated to helping companies scale.

Upfront Ventures is a California-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1996 that partners with technology startups. Based in Los Angeles with activity across the United States and Europe, it backs teams in software, SaaS, information technology, fintech, healthcare technology, e-commerce, digital media, and related tech sectors. The firm emphasizes a collaborative, hands-on approach, providing guidance and resources to help portfolio companies grow and navigate challenges. It maintains strong ties to the Southern California ecosystem while leveraging a national and international network to support founders. Upfront Ventures seeks long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and supports seed and Series A rounds, often taking board seats to help shape strategy and scale operations.

M12 is Microsoft's corporate venture capital arm, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, that invests in technology startups from seed to growth stages. The firm focuses on enterprise software, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, Web3 and gaming, seeking to accelerate portfolio companies by providing access to Microsoft’s resources, technical guidance, and customer network. It maintains a global footprint with a focus on North America and Israel and has invested in more than 100 companies, including unicorns and IPOs. M12 also runs accelerator programs and collaborates with startups to support scaling and go-to-market efforts, aligning portfolio growth with Microsoft's strategic priorities.

Wesley Clover is a private global investment management and holding company founded by Sir Terry Matthews. It concentrates on innovative technology companies, particularly early-stage cloud and SaaS businesses, and also pursues related real estate, hospitality, and entertainment opportunities. The firm provides strategic guidance and access to a worldwide ecosystem for its portfolio companies and has a track record of substantial direct investments, exits, and returns. Beyond investing, Wesley Clover engages in commercial property ventures and operates Wesley Clover Parks, while supporting community initiatives through the Wesley Clover Foundation and programs like TechTuesday.

LAUNCH is a startup ecosystem founded by Jason Calacanis that supports early-stage companies through accelerator programs, venture funds, a syndicate, and a global media network. It has backed more than 1,000 companies, including Uber, Robinhood, Calm, and Superhuman, and runs programs such as Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, Startup Tuneup, and Angel University Global, with cohorts that can be remote or hybrid and demo days that reach a global audience. Its investment path includes accelerator funding and follow-on rounds, complemented by The Syndicate’s capital through a broad investor network. In addition to funding, LAUNCH publishes media for founders and provides resources, connections, and opportunities to help build transformative companies at scale.

Peak Capital is a European early-stage venture capital firm based in Amsterdam that funds software-driven startups, including SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and data-driven software across Europe. The firm backs early rounds and focuses on SaaS, fintech, software and e-commerce sectors, typically investing from €0.25 million to €4 million and supporting about 50 portfolio companies. Peak concentrates on the Nordics, DACH and Benelux regions while remaining open to European-origin companies. Beyond capital, it assists founders with product development, market expansion, organizational growth and operational strategy, applying a framework centered on team, thesis, traction and timing and drawing on entrepreneurial experience to provide guidance and resources for scaling.

Notion Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 that focuses on early-stage investments in B2B software and enterprise technologies across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. It specializes in cloud computing and SaaS, backing founder-led companies with high growth potential and helping them scale from initial traction to significant revenue. The firm targets sectors including software as a service, cybersecurity, fintech, AI-driven tools, and other business software applications, partnering with founders to accelerate growth through strategic support, resources, and networks. Notion emphasizes long-term relationships and value creation by leveraging its experience in scaling software companies and its strategic understanding of startup stages.

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.

Alchemist Accelerator is a seed-stage enterprise-focused startup accelerator founded in 2012 and based in California. It runs a six-month program that selects technically strong founding teams and provides mentorship, structured coaching, fundraising support, and seed investment of tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for notes. Backers include Cisco Systems, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures, SAP Ventures and US Venture Partners, offering access to a broad mentor network and corporate partners. The program concentrates on business-to-business software and hardware aimed at enterprise customers, helping startups accelerate product development, customer traction, and fundraising.

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that restructured in 2024 into two brands: Granite Asia and Notable Capital. Granite Asia, headquartered in Singapore, concentrates on investments across the Asia-Pacific region, including Southeast Asia, Japan, China, India, and Australia. Notable Capital, based in Silicon Valley with offices in San Francisco and New York, concentrates on investments in the United States, Israel, Europe, and Latin America. The organization backs technology companies across early to growth stages and maintains an active portfolio strategy across regions. Notable investments include Streamlit, HashiCorp, Grab, Affirm, Poshmark, Wish, and Airbnb. The firm provides resources for founders through its platform and founder portal.

Kickstart Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, serving the Mountain West region. It focuses on technology-driven startups, especially software companies, and supports early-stage founders with smart capital, a connected founder community, and experienced guidance. Since its inception, Kickstart has backed a broad portfolio across Utah and the Mountain West and operates a series of seed funds to enable ongoing investments and potential co-investment opportunities.

High Alpha is an Indianapolis-based venture studio and venture capital firm that creates and funds B2B SaaS companies. It combines High Alpha Studio, which conceives, launches, and scales software ventures by providing services in design, finance, talent, marketing, brand, and go-to-market, with High Alpha Capital, which invests in studio companies and other enterprise software ventures. The two-platform model supports founders from idea through scale, offering hands-on co-creation and growth capital. The firm operates coast-to-coast and maintains a portfolio spanning healthcare, sales enablement, supply chain, and agtech software, aiming to reduce friction, increase velocity, and achieve enterprise-scale outcomes.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman that manages capital across public and private markets worldwide. The firm focuses on technology, internet, consumer, and financial services sectors, pursuing high-quality growth opportunities through both public equity and private investments. It maintains a research-driven, long-term approach and acts as a registered investment adviser, building partnerships with innovative companies across multiple regions and growth stages.

Greycroft is a venture capital firm that backs technology startups, focusing on the Internet and mobile markets. With offices in New York and Los Angeles, it leverages a broad network in media and technology to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring products to market, and scale successful businesses. Since its inception it has completed more than 200 investments in companies such as Acorns, Venmo, Scopely, Huffington Post, Thrive Market, and Shipt, among others.

New Enterprise Associates is a United States-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across multiple stages, from seed to growth and IPO, and provides strategic support in product development and market expansion. The firm targets sectors including software, AI, consumer technology, digital health, life sciences, and energy technology, and pursues opportunities worldwide. NEA emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders, drawing on domain expertise and a broad network to help portfolio companies scale. It maintains a diverse portfolio across the United States, Asia and other regions, reflecting a global approach to venture investing.

Goodwater Capital is a San Francisco Bay Area–based consumer technology investment firm that backs consumer technology and fintech innovators globally, from Series A to IPO. It uses software-enabled, data-driven approaches to identify opportunities and to measurably improve lives across housing, healthcare, food delivery, financial services, education, entertainment and transportation. The firm provides entrepreneurs with detailed data, mentorship, startup curricula and strategic advice to scale from early traction to millions of customers and billions of dollars in value. Its portfolio spans housing, healthcare, fintech, ecommerce and consumer services, with measurable impact across millions of lives and large-scale transaction activity.

Precursor Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests in pre-seed, seed and early-stage companies in North America. It targets B2B and B2C software applications and hardware across sectors including consumer, digital health, education, enterprise, fintech, marketplaces, software as a service, information technology and media. The firm concentrates on the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and Toronto, while considering other geographies. Typical investment sizes range from $0.1 million to $0.25 million.

ISAI is a Paris-based venture capital firm that invests in technology companies at the early and growth stages. It targets software and information technology businesses, including software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service, with emphasis on data, sustainability, and 5G in France. Founded in the late 2000s, ISAI leverages a network of more than 300 tech entrepreneurs to provide capital and hands-on experience to portfolio companies. The firm focuses on internet and technology-enabled businesses across software, media, and industrial sectors, primarily within France and selected European markets.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It specializes in early-stage, growth, and incubation investments, partnering with founders from inception to IPO and beyond. The firm backs entrepreneurs across a broad range of sectors, including technology, digital media, life sciences, healthcare, consumer products and services, software, cybersecurity, and infrastructure, providing strategic guidance and networks to help companies scale and create long-term value.

Maven Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto that concentrates on early-stage technology investments, with a focus on consumer software startups in the United States and related sectors such as information technology, media, fintech, healthcare, AI, mobile and e-commerce. The firm pursues a concentrated investment approach, typically backing 6–8 core investments per year, and supports bold founders to build scalable, category-defining companies.

Haystack is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage software and technology startups. Founded in 2013, it focuses on seed and early rounds, often taking leading roles and investing typically in the $1–$3 million range. The firm emphasizes close collaboration with exceptional founders and leverages a broad network of partners to support portfolio companies post-investment. Its track record includes seed-stage investments since 2013 and a portfolio featuring notable companies such as DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, Hashicorp, Carta, Applied Intuition, Opendoor, Filecoin, and Ironclad, reflecting a history of successful exits and growth. Haystack concentrates on software and technology sectors and aims to empower founders at the earliest stages of development.

Seedcamp is a London-based European seed-stage investor and accelerator that backs founders from Day One with hands-on support, unfiltered advice, and a global network. It identifies and invests in early-stage technology teams tackling large, global markets, providing immediate access to smart capital and a lifelong community to accelerate growth. Seedcamp supports portfolio companies across fintech, AI, space manufacturing and other sectors, with a track record that includes notable companies such as Wise, Revolut, Sorare and Synthesia, among hundreds of startups benefiting from its ecosystem.

Betaworks is a New York-based company that builds, accelerates, and funds early-stage technology ventures. Through its accelerator programs, investment activities, and Betaworks Studios membership space, it supports founders from idea to product, offering hands-on development, guidance, and community resources. The firm emphasizes cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, gaming, and decentralized technologies, and operates programs such as Camps to accelerate product development. Betaworks fosters a collaborative ecosystem by hosting events and providing platforms for networking and collaboration to advance innovative startups.

SMBC Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo with an office in Osaka, it provides growth capital and buyout investments to companies across information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing sectors. The firm supports companies at various growth stages by offering equity funding and strategic guidance within a broad financial services group.

Pear VC is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 in San Francisco that concentrates on pre-seed and seed-stage technology investments. The firm provides comprehensive support to its portfolio companies, including in-house recruiting, talent acquisition, go-to-market strategy, fundraising assistance, and PR and marketing programs, with tailored founder-focused playbooks and investor introductions. Pear emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders and seeks to build strong networks through initiatives such as Pear Garage. Its investment scope covers artificial intelligence, software as a service, enterprise technology, healthcare, biotechnology, climate technology, fintech, and consumer sectors, among others. Historically, Pear has seeded notable startups early, highlighting its role in helping exceptional founders shape the future of technology.

Ternel is a European venture capital firm based in Paris that invests in impact-sector startups across Europe from seed to Series A, with initial checks ranging from €500k to €5M. It backs founders building solutions in healthcare, planet and living systems, and learning and work, including primary and mental health, ecological restoration, sustainable materials, and new protocols, tools and institutions to scale impact. The firm combines tangible impact with traction, provides hands-on support, and often co-leads rounds when appropriate. Since its founding in 2015, Ternel has built a portfolio of around 40 companies and pursues responsible investing as part of its growth approach.

Early Game Ventures is a European venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in tech and IP-driven startups across Europe. The firm backs founders at pre-seed to Series A rounds, emphasizing coaches, focus, and founder commitment over polished CVs. It adopts a hands-on approach, providing capital, strategic guidance, and professional connections to help portfolio companies scale. With offices in Bucharest and The Hague, it targets sectors such as enterprise AI automation, cybersecurity, dev tools, gaming, consumer technology, and sustainable solutions, and typically participates in rounds ranging from low hundreds of thousands to a few million euros per company. The firm seeks to be the first institutional investor when opportunity is solid, supporting entrepreneurs with a clear path to growth.

Fika Ventures is an independent early-stage venture capital firm based in Culver City, California, backing technology-driven B2B startups across the United States and Canada. The firm focuses on seed and pre-Series A rounds in areas such as vertical AI, fintech, developer tools, manufacturing, supply chain, AI services, and healthcare. It emphasizes a founder-first, hands-on partnership that offers practical help in hiring, business development, and capital strategy, backed by a broad founder network to speed growth. Since its founding in 2016, Fika has built a national footprint and maintained a reputation for patient capital and hands-on support for high-potential B2B companies.

FundersClub is an online venture capital platform that connects accredited investors with a diversified portfolio of vetted startups, providing access to early-stage opportunities typically unavailable to individual investors. Founded in 2012 and based in California, the company targets seed and Series A rounds in technology and technology-enabled startups, operating globally. It combines software, a global network, and a rigorous vetting process to streamline investments and offer hands-on support to investors and founders. Since inception, FundersClub has invested over $185 million in more than 410 startups, with a portfolio valued at over $30 billion and more than $6 billion in follow-on capital to portfolio companies.

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco with operations in Tokyo, investing in startups across the United States and Asia, including Japan. The firm backs early-stage companies in sectors such as B2B, B2C, retail, financial services, healthcare, information technology, SaaS, mobile, the internet of things, and health technology, typically contributing between $100,000 and $1 million alongside other investors. Scrum Ventures leverages a broad Asia network to help portfolio companies expand internationally and maintains corporate partnerships with Panasonic, Fujitsu, and Dentsu as part of its co-creation initiatives. It runs accelerator and collaboration programs such as Full Bloom at Sakura Deeptech Shibuya and HFX in Hokkaido that connect startups with corporate partners. The team emphasizes direct founder support, offering hiring assistance, strategic guidance, and fundraising help, guided by a thesis-driven, globally oriented approach developed from experience across founding, investing, and accelerators. The firm was founded by Tak Miyata and focuses on sourcing industry-changing startups and accelerating their growth worldwide.

NFX is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups, with a founder-centric model designed to improve how startups experience fundraising and growth. The firm emphasizes building an early-stage experience powered by software, and promotes techniques for network effects and scalable growth. It supports founder-led companies across sectors including software, data products, biotech and related technologies, with a global footprint in the United States, Israel, Latin America, and Europe. NFX has cultivated a network called The Guild, an exclusive community of hundreds of founders, and offers operational resources such as the Signal and Brieflink tools to assist portfolio companies. It has backed entrepreneurs who have built companies with outsized exits, and has launched initiatives like NFX Bio to back scientist-founders at seed stage, reflecting a commitment to technology-enabled biology.