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.

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.

Basis Set Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in early-stage investments focused on artificial intelligence and its practical applications. The firm targets seed and Series A rounds and typically writes checks between $1 million and $3 million for enterprise companies, with emphasis on scalable infrastructure, collaboration tools, automated workflows, and autonomous systems.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 that supports the region's technology ecosystem. Based in Philadelphia, it acts as a capital provider and catalyst for early-stage and growing technology companies across information technology, health, and physical sciences by offering seed-stage funding and related resources to accelerate commercialization. The organization facilitates university–industry partnerships and regional initiatives that connect scientific research with market opportunities, with the aim of creating jobs and strengthening entrepreneurial communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Through its programs and partnerships, it supports adoption of new technologies and helps build a robust regional innovation ecosystem.

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.

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.

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.

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

Abstract Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in seed and early-stage startups across multiple sectors, including biotechnology, consumer, crypto-blockchain, enterprise technology, software, and telecommunications, maintaining a sector-agnostic approach. The firm emphasizes building strong founder relationships and acts as a connector for fundraising, talent, customers, and strategic guidance, drawing on a broad network of investors, founders, and industry leaders. It is recognized for loyalty to founders and a track record of helping early-stage companies win.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DGF Investimentos is a São Paulo-based venture capital firm founded in 2001 that focuses on emerging technology and software companies in Brazil. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, particularly in software and technology-driven businesses, including B2B software, and has a history of backing high-growth startups with several notable exits such as Logocenter, Daitan Group, Mastersaf, RD Station and Reclame Aqui.

IN Venture, established in 2019, is the venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation, located in Tel Aviv, Israel. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage technology startups across a range of sectors, including mobility, energy, digital health, food and agriculture, information technology, and cybersecurity. By targeting innovative companies within these domains, IN Venture aims to foster growth and development in emerging technologies.

Entrée Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It provides multi-stage investment to startups worldwide, spanning from pre-seed to growth stages, across sectors including AI, data, deep tech, fintech, cyber, software as a service, and crypto. The firm supports portfolio companies through active funding and strategic guidance, with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and San Francisco.

Amplify Partners is a Menlo Park-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology companies across the United States. It focuses on seed and Series A investments in enterprise software, infrastructure technologies, and related areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, data and analytics, cybersecurity, and information technology. The firm seeks technical founders solving enterprise problems and supports them through multiple rounds of funding, with typical initial checks in the tens of thousands to several millions of dollars. It emphasizes Infrastructure 2.0 opportunities and avoids consumer internet and cleantech sectors. The firm is registered as an investment adviser and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

RTP Global is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology investments, supporting portfolio companies with strategic guidance and a broad global network. Founded in 2000, the firm operates with offices in New York, London, Bangalore, and Dubai, and has invested in companies across Europe, Asia, and North America, including several that later became multi-billion-dollar public companies such as Yandex, EPAM, Delivery Hero, RingCentral, Datadog, and Ozon.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in London with additional offices in San Francisco and Geneva, supporting entrepreneurs shaping technology-driven global businesses by investing across early and growth stages in software, TMT, and related sectors including artificial intelligence, data, fintech, healthcare, and mobility, and partnering with founders to scale companies globally.

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.

Octopus Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm that supports start-ups across stages from idea to IPO. It allocates over £200 million annually to invest in sectors including health, fintech, deep tech, consumer, and B2B software, aiming to generate positive impact. The firm provides more than capital, offering time, energy, and hands-on guidance to help portfolio companies scale. Its approach involves close collaboration with founders and leveraging a network of partners in the United States and Asia, with operational presence in London and New York. Notable investments include ManyPets, Cazoo, Depop, Elvie, and WaveOptics. By combining sector focus with active founder support, Octopus Ventures seeks to back ambitious companies that can grow into market leaders.

FutureCap is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Beijing, China, founded in 2014. The firm focuses on investing in internet companies across various sectors, including customer services, enterprise services, hardware, healthcare, and education. By targeting early-stage investments, FutureCap aims to support and nurture innovative businesses in the rapidly evolving Chinese market.

Lerer Hippeau is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that focuses on early-stage investments. The firm backs seed and pre-seed companies across a broad range of sectors including software, information technology, communications and media, healthcare technology, fintech, consumer and hardware, among others. It typically supports founders through the earliest stages, offering capital and strategic guidance to help build scalable businesses in the United States, with a concentration in the New York metro area. Lerer Hippeau emphasizes partnering with entrepreneurs who demonstrate product vision and customer insight, aiming to help portfolio companies grow from idea to market. The firm maintains an active portfolio and an operational approach that includes ongoing involvement to assist companies as they scale.

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.

Glory Ventures is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm that backs startups across early and growth stages, with a focus on information technology, IoT, artificial intelligence, and consumer-oriented ventures. The firm pursues a cross-border approach, particularly between China and Israel, and builds an ecosystem by integrating industrial resources from private equity markets and public companies to create strategic synergies. It targets subsectors such as B2B enterprise services, consumption upgrade, and IoT, and seeks value-added exits through M&A or IPO. Its portfolio includes AI, IoT, fintech, and related technologies, with several companies attracting follow-on investments from industrial capital and notable investors.

Shasta Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 that focuses on early-stage software investments in the United States. It backs startups in software as a service, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence, and consumer subscription sectors, typically supporting seed to Series B rounds. The firm operates from Portola Valley, California, and provides tailored resources to help founders navigate early-stage challenges rather than offering a one-size-fits-all program.

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.

LDV Capital, founded in 2012 by Evan Nisselson and headquartered in New York, is a thesis-driven venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in visual technology and AI companies. Visual technologies typically leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data across the full tech stack. It targets North American and European businesses, typically investing between $500K and $1.5M. With an extensive inner circle of computer vision and machine learning experts, serial entrepreneurs, technical advisors, growth hackers, marketers and more, LDV Capital leverages its network to help founders navigate the challenges of building businesses powered by visual technologies and AI.

GFT Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that funds early-stage and later-stage startups across the United States and Israel. The firm focuses on frontier technology and technology-enabled sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, healthcare, information technology, blockchain and cryptocurrency, robotics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and machine learning. It emphasizes backing category-leading startups developing disruptive technologies and adds value through its experience, track record, and global relationships with early adopter partners and customers. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser.

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 and based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Francisco. The firm invests across seed through growth stages in consumer and enterprise software, cloud/SaaS, data and analytics, security, and related information technology sectors, and may participate in areas such as advertising, fintech, health tech, and open source infrastructure. It often seeks board oversight of portfolio companies and prioritizes investments in the United States, India, China, Europe and Israel, with occasional activity in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vienna, with offices across Europe and in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology sectors including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, software as a service and infrastructure, climate tech, crypto, and emerging markets. The firm runs specialized investment teams aligned to these industries and offers an in-house Platform+ team providing tailored operational support, such as growth marketing, human resources, US business development and networking assistance throughout the portfolio journey. Speedinvest seeks to be a hands-on partner, sometimes taking operational roles for a period to help portfolio companies scale, and emphasizes hands-on collaboration with founders to accelerate growth.

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.

South Park Commons is a San Francisco-based community and venture platform for technologists and builders that emphasizes collaboration and shared exploration to generate ideas. It supports members' entrepreneurial efforts by investing in companies that emerge from the community's explorations, helping founders advance through the early stages. The organization engages across a broad range of sectors, including software, gaming, AI and machine learning, fintech, hardware, health tech, ed-tech, SaaS, developer tools, and marketplaces.

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.

Shunwei Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that focuses on early to growth-stage investments in China's internet and information technology sectors. It seeks opportunities in technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet services, and rural internet, with an emphasis on internet-enabled businesses and related IT applications. The firm concentrates on Chinese startups while pursuing selective cross-border opportunities in East Asia, and it supports incubation and scaling through multiple funds. Its investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowments, and family offices, reflecting a diversified capital base to back ambitious entrepreneurs in the digital economy.

IP Group is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on commercialising intellectual property from research-intensive institutions. It creates value by identifying early-stage IP, developing it into commercially viable opportunities, and forming strategic partnerships to support portfolio companies. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and industry insight to science- and technology-based businesses, with emphasis on clean technology, life sciences, and deep tech. With more than twenty years of experience, IP Group supports the growth of science and technology companies from inception toward scale, helping translate research into market-ready products and accelerate their impact.

Hiventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. It backs startups across multiple sectors and supports high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises, with the aim of fostering a sustainable and competitive SME and enterprise ecosystem in Hungary and the broader Central and Eastern Europe region. The firm is described as one of the largest and most active venture capital partners in Central and Eastern Europe.

DBJ Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of the Development Bank of Japan, based in Tokyo. Established in 2010 from the integration of two DBJ venture firms, it mobilizes the DBJ Group to provide growth equity and financing solutions for technology-driven firms, spanning information technology services, biotechnology, healthcare, frontier technologies, and other industrial sectors. It invests in venture firms and startups that use new technologies and business models to compete globally, while offering hands-on value enhancement to help commercialize intellectual property and technologies developed by companies, research labs, and universities. Through its activity, DBJ Capital supports Japan's economic revival by fostering growth and helping innovative firms establish a market presence.

Web3.com Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Singapore, founded in 2013, that focuses on equity and crypto investments in web3 and related technologies. It seeks to back companies operating across web3, artificial intelligence, developer tools, foundational infrastructure, decentralized finance, cryptocurrency, scalability, asset management, and privacy technologies.

Inovo Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2011 and based in Warsaw, Poland, with over €50 million in assets under management. The firm focuses on investing in high-growth technology companies at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages, particularly within the Central and Eastern European region. Inovo specializes in sectors such as developer tools, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, healthcare, and SaaS-enabled marketplaces. The firm has earned recognition as a leading venture capital investor in Poland, having supported over 20 companies through direct investments and as business angels. Notable investments from its first fund include Booksy and Brand24, while its second fund has backed companies like Allset and Tidio. Inovo's team comprises experienced professionals with backgrounds in prominent organizations, enabling them to effectively identify and nurture companies that are poised to transform their industries and achieve market dominance.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in Paris, New York, and San Francisco. Founded in 2017, it invests in asset-light technology companies at all stages, typically from €100,000 to €100 million. Backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, Aglaé Ventures focuses on software, SaaS, content platforms, consumer apps, and information technology companies, and operates primarily in the United States and France.

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.

BeAble Capital, founded in 2016 and based in Madrid, Spain, is a venture capital firm focused on science and technology driven opportunities. It concentrates on deep science and technology transfer, intellectual property rich industrial endeavors, and sectors such as advanced materials, nanotech, photonics, micro and nano electronics, ICT platforms, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energy, environment, healthcare and wellbeing, medtech, robotics, artificial intelligence, agriculture and food. The firm supports the creation and development of technology-based companies from early stages, emphasizing strong IP and long research and development backgrounds. Services include identifying technologies, valuing and transferring IP, company creation, fundraising, marketing, internationalization, and strategic and managerial guidance to help startups scale within Spain and beyond. BeAble Capital positions itself as a science-first investor that bridges scientific discovery with entrepreneurship to foster technology transfer and the growth of startups grounded in solid research and IP.

Service Provider Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that funds seed-stage technology companies across domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, hardware, robotics, information technology, health tech, and cannabis. The firm also co-invests in Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds, providing capital and guidance to startups in the United States, including the Midwest and Southeast regions.

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.

MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups aiming for IPO. It focuses on companies in fintech, SaaS, healthcare, artificial intelligence, e‑commerce, foodtech, and environmental technology.

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.