Makers Fund is a global venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in interactive entertainment and related technology sectors. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Hong Kong, the firm seeks opportunities across North America, Europe, and Asia. It targets seed, Series A and Series B rounds, and provides founders with access to an extensive industry network and hands-on guidance drawn from deep sector experience.

Affle is a global technology company that operates a proprietary consumer intelligence platform to drive mobile advertising and related services. The platform supports consumer engagement, customer acquisition and transactions through contextual mobile advertising and aims to improve marketing ROI while reducing digital ad fraud. The company offers a Consumer platform used by online and offline businesses for measurable mobile advertising, and an Enterprise platform that helps offline companies go online via app development, enables O2O commerce, and provides a customer data platform.

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.

STRIVE, formerly known as GREE Ventures, is the venture capital arm of Gree, focused on seed and early-stage investments in Internet and mobile services. Headquartered in Tokyo with a Singapore office, it backs pre-Series A and Series A rounds and prefers to support B2B, e-commerce, advertising technology, social platforms, and other smart device apps. The firm primarily targets Japan and Southeast and East Asia, including Indonesia, Singapore, and India, using its pan-Asia expertise to guide portfolio companies. Typical investments range from approximately 0.3 to 2 million USD in Southeast Asia and 0.5 to 3 million USD in East Asia. Established in 2011, STRIVE aims to help early-stage startups grow through hands-on guidance and regional networks.

Dace Ventures is a Lexington, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm founded in 2006 that targets early-stage technology companies across the United States, with a focus on digital media, consumer marketing, and mobile services.

Quotidian Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm that provides early-stage capital to technology startups. It specializes in first-check investments at the pre-seed and seed stages and partners with founders aiming to transform large industries with software. The firm backs companies in digital entertainment, advertising, mobile, e-commerce, and digital publishing, and is open to related technology sectors. While prioritizing opportunities in New York City and Latin America, Quotidian Ventures considers high-potential companies worldwide, helping founders navigate the critical early development phase.

Aggregate is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm that concentrates on media and related digital sectors in Sweden, Finland and Norway. Established in 2002, the firm has completed over 250 transactions across e-commerce, digital services, product and B2B companies, and provides media-centric financing such as expansion capital and media-for-equity to help portfolio companies grow and expand their market reach.

Phunware is a software company that operates a cloud platform for mobile devices, providing products, solutions, and data to engage, manage, and monetize mobile application audiences. Its multiscreen as a service platform delivers enterprise mobile software across content management, location-based services, marketing automation, business intelligence and analytics, alerts, notifications and messaging, audience engagement, and audience monetization, along with vertical mobile portfolios and pre-integrated MaaS software components. The company offers application transactions for audience building, discovery, engagement, and monetization, and supplies data services including campaign data and licensing for targeted advertising across GPS, high- and low-density Wi-Fi, and beacons. Phunware serves brands worldwide, derives revenue from software subscriptions and services as well as advertising, and focuses on US-based markets. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

TMT Investments is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 and based in Saint Helier, United Kingdom. It invests in early-stage technology companies across sectors including technology, media and telecommunications, big data, cloud solutions, e-commerce, ad tech, SaaS and marketplaces. The firm has a portfolio that includes a significant number of Silicon Valley investments and has backed more than 65 companies to date. Its objective is to generate attractive returns for investors primarily through capital appreciation.

Founded in 2014, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cologne, Germany. It invests primarily in technology-driven startups across sectors such as fintech, big data, art and culture, training and development, and mobile advertising.

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.

Dot Capital is a boutique venture capital firm focused on the digital economy. Based in New York, NY, it targets investments in software as a service, mobile, IoT, Internet infrastructure, big data, sharing economy, digital media, and related technology sectors. Founded in 2012, the firm pursues opportunities in disruptive growth companies and leverages extensive venture investing experience to support early to growth-stage ventures.

WI Harper Group is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with a China-focused footprint, including offices in Beijing and Taipei. Founded in 1993, it invests in startup companies across the United States, Greater China, and the Asia Pacific in sectors such as healthcare, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech, sustainability, and new media. The firm targets early and expansion-stage opportunities, supporting companies from seed to later rounds and helping bridge U.S. and Greater China markets through cross-border expertise.

TPY Capital is an Israeli investment firm based in Tel Aviv that operates as a private equity and venture capital firm, focusing on early-stage, pre-revenue, revenue-stage, and growth technology companies. It is an active investor that typically leads rounds and concentrates on sectors such as quantum computing, cloud infrastructure, data and analytics, fintech, enterprise software, machine learning, enterprise digitalization, and human augmentation. The firm backs Israeli startups, generally pursuing minority positions and supporting companies through multiple growth stages. Founded in 2011, TPY Capital aims to support innovative technology firms across Israel.

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.

RezVen Partners is a California-based venture capital firm, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Irvine, focusing on seed and growth-stage tech-enabled companies, including software, digital media, mobile, social media, and advertising technology. The firm emphasizes hands-on guidance and strategic partnerships to help portfolio companies scale.

Beta Bridge Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early-stage investments. It focuses on sectors such as adtech, marketplaces, tech-enabled services, digital healthcare, local, mobile, software, and internet of things. The firm primarily invests in the Southern California, Mid-West, and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Cyhawk Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2001. It focuses on early-stage investments, including pre-seed and seed rounds, in media and advertising companies and related digital marketing, new media, social and mobile sectors.

AperiamVentures is a venture capital firm focused on the digital transformation of marketing. The team has decades of experience as founders, operators and investors. The name Aperiam is derived from Aperio, Latin for Open, reflecting a collaborative approach with the marketing ecosystem on behalf of its portfolio.

Science is a California-based venture capital firm headquartered in Santa Monica that targets early-stage technology investments in the United States and India. The firm participates across seed, early, and later stages and backs companies in sectors including e-commerce, apparel, data services, media, blockchain, edtech, fintech, IoT, micro-mobility, gaming, and marketplaces. It identifies entrenched markets and societal shifts and supports disruptive companies with highly focused teams, and has co-founded and invested in more than 60 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.

LB Investment is a Seoul-based private equity and venture capital firm, founded in 1996, that specializes in buyouts, seed and expansion capital, and cross-border investments in Korea and China. It supports companies across technology, information and communication technology, media, consumer, education, biology and healthcare, clean technology, software, and related sectors, with a focus on early-stage to growth opportunities. The firm typically makes equity investments in the hundreds of millions of Korean won up to a few billion won and generally takes minority stakes around 10 to 15 percent, with limited active management involvement. Its cross-border orientation and diversified sector scope position LB Investment to assist companies expanding between Korea and China and other parts of Asia.

Founder Collective is a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs who have built and exited technology companies. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in New York, the firm makes early investments across the United States and globally. It is industry-agnostic but prefers ventures with an information technology component, including software and TMT-enabled businesses. The firm focuses on supporting founders at the seed and early stages, drawing on the experience of its partners who have firsthand startup experience.

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.

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the corporate venture capital arm of Fidelity International, with offices in the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan and the United States. It manages a substantial asset base and has backed hundreds of companies across technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer technologies, including software, SaaS, enterprise tech and fintech. The firm typically makes early to growth‑stage investments, often takes minority stakes and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. With an international footprint, Eight Roads Ventures supports growth across Europe, Asia and North America, including Greater China, and collaborates with associated funds to back technology‑driven businesses.

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

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.

Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 1911 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It backs startups across seed to growth stages, focusing on software, cloud, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer and healthcare technologies, and high-growth business models. The firm operates internationally, supporting portfolio companies from early product development through scale, and has backed well-known names such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Wix and others. BVP emphasizes helping founders establish durable foundations and guides companies through multiple growth phases, leveraging hands-on operational support, strategic networks, and cross-border expertise. With a diversified approach that includes consumer, enterprise and deep-tech investments, the firm seeks to build lasting companies that matter across global markets.

DCM Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests across software, consumer and digital media, mobile, fintech, health tech, enterprise technology, and related sectors, with a geographic focus on the United States, China, and Japan. The firm has raised multiple funds totaling about $4.0 billion and has backed more than 400 technology companies in the United States and Asia. It provides hands-on operational guidance and leverages a broad global network of business and financial resources to support portfolio companies. DCM maintains offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo to support its portfolio across North America and Asia.

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.

Cool Japan Fund is an investment firm established in 2013 and based in Tokyo, Japan. As a public-private fund, it provides risk capital to companies across media and content, food and services, and fashion and lifestyle, with the aim of promoting overseas demand for high-quality Japanese products and services and supporting international expansion of Japanese brands.

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.

Threshold Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm pursues a high-conviction investment strategy and partners with entrepreneurs to build and scale innovative software, consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies, providing capital and strategic support to help startups reach product-market fit and accelerate growth.

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.

SilverNeedle Hospitality designs and manages hotels and shared workspaces and develops virtual reality experiences for travel, real estate, and luxury brands, serving customers worldwide and offering hospitality services across multiple sectors while leveraging immersive technology to enhance experiences for guests and clients.

Norwest Venture Partners is a global technology venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1961 and based in California. The firm backs seed through growth-stage companies across the United States, India and Israel, with investments spanning technology, cloud and IT infrastructure, Internet and consumer products, SaaS, business services, financial services, healthcare, and other sectors. It has funded hundreds of companies and leverages a broad network and operating experience to help founders scale their businesses. Norwest pursues a flexible, long-term approach, tailoring its capital and support to each stage and company, and it deploys capital across multiple rounds from early checks to growth investments. The firm is known for partnering with CEOs and management teams to accelerate growth through strategic guidance, operational resources, and access to its portfolio network.

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.

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.

Kima Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris with an office in London, founded in 2010 by Xavier Niel. It invests in seed and early-stage startups worldwide, often as lead investor, and supports founders with funding, an extensive network, and guidance to accelerate product development and growth. The firm emphasizes rapid decision-making and aims to smooth fundraising so founders can focus on building their business. Described as a network of founders and experts with a pay it forward mindset, Kima has invested in hundreds of startups across multiple countries, reflecting its global reach and active early-stage engagement.

LAUNCH is an Austin, Texas-based early-stage investment firm and accelerator platform that combines capital with education for startups. It provides syndicate funding and operates a suite of programs to support builders, including Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, and Startup Tuneup, as well as events such as Remote Demo Day. The LAUNCH ecosystem pairs investment with structured training, community access, and practical guidance to help founders move from idea to growth. By coordinating funding and educational programs, LAUNCH aims to accelerate startup development and enable teams to scale.

Ludus Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Istanbul, Turkey, focused on gaming startups. It provides in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding to entrepreneurs and startups, and aims to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by nurturing best-in-class gaming ventures.

Play Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that backs early-stage gaming companies worldwide. It invests across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds with a focus on free-to-play and web3 gaming, as well as related game services and esports opportunities. The firm pursues global investments, building a portfolio of game developers and studios through several funds, including Play Ventures I and II and the Play Ventures Opportunity Fund.

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.

Anges Québec is a Montreal-based network of angel investors that supports early-stage Québec and Canadian companies by providing capital and mentorship. Founded in 2008, it coordinates a community of more than 230 individual investors who join forces to back innovative businesses across sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, renewables, technology, forestry, energy, fintech, software, and related industries. The network helps startups access financing and strategic guidance while fostering knowledge sharing among members through a professional development center. By connecting investors with entrepreneurs in need of funding, Anges Québec aims to accelerate growth and scale for innovative companies and strengthen the Canadian startup ecosystem.

NFX is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focusing on pre-seed and seed investments in technology startups. It positions itself as founder-centric, aiming to improve the early-stage experience through software-enabled processes and by applying growth techniques that leverage network effects. The firm describes its founders as entrepreneurs first and seeks to back the next generation of creators by aligning with their needs and the broader ecosystem. Its investment scope spans software, fintech, e-commerce, data products, marketplaces, and related tech sectors across regions, supported by multiple funds to back early-stage opportunities.

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.

Bright Venture Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Shenzhen, China. It focuses on early- and middle-stage investments across technology-related sectors, including information technology, internet, cloud computing and advanced manufacturing, and seeks opportunities in adjacent areas such as media, telecommunications, culture and media, healthcare education, entertainment consumer, and new retail. The firm pursues investments in both private equity in the primary market and secondary stock opportunities.

Established in 2023, Mercurius Media Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Redwood City, USA. It invests in growth-stage companies, aligning premium advertising inventory with these businesses to enhance brand visibility and drive measurable outcomes.

Matrix Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 that backs technology companies from idea through Series A and beyond. The firm focuses on software, AI, B2B, consumer, fintech, health tech, infrastructure, and related sectors, with a global footprint in the United States, India, and China. Its team comprises former founders and operators who work closely with portfolio companies and often join boards to support growth. Matrix Partners has backed a broad slate of successful companies in its decades-long history, including Apple, FedEx, Oculus, Zendesk, HubSpot, Canva, and Postmates, illustrating a pattern of helping developers and builders scale toward IPO or strategic exits. The firm's China arm extends its early-stage and growth investments in the Chinese market, reinforcing its international reach.

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.