Battery Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1983. It invests in category-defining technology companies across sectors such as application software, infrastructure software, consumer internet and mobile services, industrial technologies, and life science tools. The firm supports growth across various stages and geographies, including the United States, Europe, and Israel, with emphasis on software, TMT, and related tech-enabled opportunities. As a registered investment adviser, Battery Ventures backs companies that build scalable platforms and transformative products, helping them compete in rapidly evolving markets.

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.

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.

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.

ORIX Capital Corporation is the venture capital arm of ORIX Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Established in October 1983, it provides venture and growth capital to companies across multiple sectors, with an emphasis on information technology. The organization targets mid-stage ventures and growth opportunities and supports firms pursuing initial public offerings. As the corporate venture capital unit of ORIX, it leverages corporate resources and strategic alignment to back companies that fit ORIX's portfolio objectives.

Vnet Capital is a venture capital firm based in Bangkok, Thailand. It provides capital, strategic and financial guidance, and business networks to companies at various stages from startup to growth, and pursues opportunities in information technology, the internet of things, services, logistics, foods and supplements, and energy, including management buy-in and management buy-out activities. The firm operates a subsidiary that offers venture capital fund management services.

Blume Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups in India at the seed to pre-Series A stage. It focuses on tech-enabled ventures across consumer internet, enterprise software, SaaS, and deep tech, among other areas, including fintech and healthcare. The firm typically serves as one of the first institutional investors in its portfolio companies, and it pursues a collaborative approach by co-investing with like-minded angels and seed funds. It provides follow-on capital to portfolio companies and offers mentoring and strategic support to help them scale, with an investment horizon of roughly 8-10 years.

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

YFM Equity Partners is an independent private equity firm based in Leeds, United Kingdom, with offices in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield. Founded in 1982, it is owned by its senior management and investment team. The firm invests in growth and buyout opportunities across the United Kingdom, primarily targeting small and mid-sized companies in sectors including business services, software, manufacturing, technology-enabled services, and consumer brands. It typically makes equity investments in the range of a few million pounds per company (for example up to £10 million per company) and seeks to take board seats to support growth. Investments aim to exit within approximately five years through sale or listing. YFM focuses on SMEs and collaborates with management teams to drive expansion and value creation.

Paladin Capital Group is a global investment firm that provides venture, expansion, and growth capital to technology, product, and service companies, with a focus on dual-use solutions for commercial and government markets. It combines financial expertise with national security and technical know-how to add value across market sectors and company stages and aims to be an active investor by offering guidance, access, and relationships to portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes digital infrastructure resilience and backs technologies that enable monitoring, management, and defense of critical infrastructure dependent on cyberspace. Paladin is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg.

Storm Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in enterprise technology. Founded in 1997, it backs early-stage B2B software, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital health, and related technology companies across the United States. The firm draws on founders' experience as entrepreneurs to provide hands-on support and strategic capital, helping portfolio companies scale while respecting founders' autonomy when not needed. Storm Ventures operates from the California Bay Area and pursues a disciplined, founder-friendly approach to building technology businesses.

Scale Venture Partners is a Foster City, California-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies in the United States. It concentrates on intelligent business software, cloud, SaaS, artificial intelligence and machine learning, infrastructure, security, and related verticals, investing in software and platform-enabled businesses from seed to growth stages. Scale Venture Partners supports portfolio companies with a value-acceleration program that assists go-to-market strategy, product development, and operations, and provides access to a proprietary dataset of SaaS metrics covering growth, efficiency, churn, and burn to benchmark performance as companies scale. The firm seeks opportunities that leverage scalable software platforms and data-driven growth, helping teams move from initial customers toward market leadership.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Martello Technologies Group is a Canadian company headquartered in Ottawa that develops and sells software solutions designed to optimize the performance of real‑time applications across cloud and enterprise networks. Its product portfolio includes Mitel Performance Analytics, which monitors the status and performance of Mitel and third‑party systems; Martello Gizmo, which measures, alerts, and reports on Microsoft 365 user experience; Martello iQ, a service‑monitoring and analytics platform; Live Maps, a Windows authentication troubleshooting tool; and Vantage DX, a SaaS‑based digital experience management solution for collaboration services such as Microsoft 365, Teams, and Zoom. The company also offers unified communications testing, SD‑WAN, and technical support and training services. Martello serves a range of sectors—including education, government, healthcare, professional services, remote work, and service providers—both in Canada and internationally. Founded in 1981, the firm focuses on delivering proactive network performance management that detects and resolves issues before they impact service quality.

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It backs early- and growth-stage technology startups and seeks investments across software, cloud, consumer, enterprise IT, fintech, security, media, and related sectors. The firm operates globally, supporting entrepreneurs in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and other markets, with a track record of helping portfolio companies scale to category-defining leaders. Notable investments include Atlassian, Dropbox, Facebook, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Flipkart, Qualtrics, Lookout Security, and MoPub. Accel emphasizes hands-on mentorship and strategic guidance to build durable, world-class businesses that shape next-generation industries.

Archetype Ventures is a Tokyo, Japan-based venture capital firm that backs seed to early-stage technology startups. It focuses on B2B software and information technology, fintech, AI and deep tech, healthcare, sustainability, and marketing technology, with investments spanning Asia and the Americas.

Wesley Clover is a private global investment management and holding company based in Los Angeles, founded in 1972. It maintains active investments in innovative cloud and SaaS technology companies and holds interests in selected real estate properties. The firm focuses on early-stage technology ventures and related real estate opportunities, aiming to build value through strategic ownership and support for portfolio companies.

Development Bank of Wales is an independent financial institution that provides commercial funding to Welsh small and medium-sized enterprises. It mobilizes private and public funds, including European funds, to support growth through a range of debt and equity solutions, such as micro loans, bridge and development finance, expansion capital, and selective equity investments. The bank focuses on Welsh companies across sectors including technology, manufacturing, and services, supporting startups as well as established SMEs within Wales.

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.

Specialized Types is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. It invests in startups and offers technical advisory services, helping portfolio companies access engineers and other technical talent. The firm pursues investments alongside other venture capital investors, combining capital with hands-on technical support to assist technology-driven startups.

CIBC is a Canadian multinational bank offering a full range of financial services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and institutions. Its activities span commercial banking, wealth management, asset management, and investment banking, including corporate and investment banking, equity and debt financing, advisory services, and cross-border banking. The organization operates through divisions such as CIBC Bank (providing retail and commercial banking), CIBC Bank USA (Americas-based commercial banking), CIBC World Markets and CIBC Capital Markets (investment banking and capital markets), and asset management units including CIBC Asset Management and CIBC Global Asset Management. CIBC serves clients across North America with offices in Toronto, Chicago and other international locations, and focuses on serving mid-market companies, high net worth individuals, pension plans, and financial institutions. The bank emphasizes long-standing client relationships, community investment, and a broad geographic footprint in Canada and the United States.

Redpoint Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in Woodside, California, with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Shanghai. It partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones and makes investments across seed, early, and growth stages. The firm operates multiple funds and manages about four billion dollars in total. Its investment scope covers technology, media, and energy-related opportunities, including consumer Internet, software, enterprise IT services, fintech, and digital media, with a China-focused arm, Redpoint China Ventures, backing early-stage opportunities in China across technology, telecommunications, and related sectors. Redpoint seeks to be a lead or co-lead investor in its portfolio companies and pursues a global footprint, including the United States and international markets. The emphasis is on minority and early-stage bets in high-potential sectors, aiming to back founders with the potential to disrupt established industries.

Viola Group is an Israel-based technology-focused investment group with multiple dedicated arms, including Viola Ventures, Viola Growth, Viola Credit, Viola Partners and Viola FinTech. Founded in 2000, the group provides long-term capital and value-added support to tech companies across stages, from early venture to growth and credit financing, with a broad geographic reach in Israel and globally. Viola Group manages over three billion dollars in assets and has backed more than 200 technology companies, leveraging specialized teams, extensive networks, and strategic partnerships to help portfolio companies scale in sectors such as software, cybersecurity, fintech, semiconductors, and deep technology. The firm operates as a multi-strategy house, allowing independent arms to pursue distinct investment approaches while sharing services and expertise to drive durable returns for global institutional investors and private partners. Its approach combines capital with hands-on partnership to build transformational technology businesses.

Legend Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm and the investment arm of Legend Holdings, established in 2001 to become a leading venture capital manager in China. It manages up to about US$700 million across four funds and focuses on high-growth ventures with operations in China or markets related to China, particularly in early-stage information technology including network applications and services, outsourcing and professional services, and infrastructure components such as IC design, as well as mid-market growth in consumer goods, clean technology, healthcare, equipment manufacturing, and modern services. As an active investor, Legend Capital provides portfolio companies with strategic resources, business development support, and market guidance to help them scale in the Chinese market. Notable investments include Joyo.com, SinoCom, Solarfun Power, Spreadtrum Communications, China Sunshine Paper, and VanceInfo, among others.

Abstract Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments across multiple sectors. Founded in 2016, the firm supports founders through a broad network of investors, peers, and industry leaders, helping with fundraising, talent, customers, and strategic guidance. Its sector-agnostic approach backs companies from pre-seed through Series A and beyond, including biotechnology, consumer tech, crypto-blockchain, and enterprise frontier technologies. Abstract Ventures emphasizes building connections and providing practical enablement to help portfolio founders win, scale, and compete, leveraging its ecosystem to accelerate growth and drive long-term value.

Founded in 2006, Z47 is a venture capital firm based in Bengaluru, India. It invests in technology startups focused on the Indian consumer market and global enterprise solutions, typically at seed, early, and early growth stages.

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.

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.

Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional offices across the United States. The firm specializes in equity and debt investments, including growth equity, senior and subordinated debt, and mezzanine financing, with a focus on small businesses and underserved communities. It collaborates with state and federal economic programs to support local economic development and has financed companies in sectors such as manufacturing, technology, business services, energy, and agribusiness, including renewable and solar projects. The firm targets opportunities across growth stages and aims to create lasting economic impact by expanding opportunity in low-income areas through private investment and public-private partnerships.

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.

Addor Capital is a growth-capital investment firm headquartered in Nanjing, China. Founded in 2014, it invests in seed-stage through growth-stage companies across sectors including clean technology, health, new materials, advanced manufacturing, consumer services, cultural industries, and TMT in China.

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

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that, as of March 2024, operates as two separate brands: Granite Asia, based in Singapore, which invests across the Asia-Pacific region including Southeast Asia, Japan, China, India, and Australia; and Notable Capital, based in Silicon Valley with offices in San Francisco and New York, which invests in the United States, Israel, Europe, and Latin America. Founded in 2000, the firm has a long track record of providing expansion and early-stage capital to technology companies in the United States and China, and it supports portfolio companies across software, IT, cloud, and related technology sectors.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that backs technology companies from seed stage through growth rounds. It targets a broad range of sectors including AI, cloud and software, fintech, robotics, life sciences, media, and mobility, and pursues global investments across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and resources for portfolio companies, aiming to help them scale beyond financing. It operates a pure investment fund alongside corporate venture funds formed with leading public companies across telecom, real estate, financial services, beverages, agriculture and food, logistics, and electronics.

The FSE Group is a UK-based not-for-profit investment group consisting of several subsidiaries that deliver funds and related services. Surpluses are reinvested to support its mission rather than being distributed to shareholders. The group provides funding through its subsidiary finance and fund management entities, including Finance East, which funds businesses in the East of England, and a regulated fund manager that delivers regulated activities. The organization focuses on early-stage and growth-stage ventures in renewables and social enterprise, aiming to support startups and growing businesses with regional and sector-specific funding.

8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm based in San Francisco that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies. The firm aims to create long-term economic and societal value through its investments, spanning healthcare, energy, consumer goods, financial services, infrastructure, information technology, manufacturing, enterprise, logistics, defense, and other sectors. By backing ambitious teams and providing strategic support, 8VC seeks to enable industry transformation and global innovation.

Trifecta Capital Advisors is a Gurgaon, India-based lender established in 2014 that focuses on venture debt, growth equity, and financial advisory services. It is described as India’s first independent venture debt firm, offering specialized debt financing to growth-stage companies underserved by traditional banks. Venture debt typically combines a loan with limited equity rights (warrants) and targets sectors including financial services, consumer goods, healthcare, and technology.

Artis Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2001 that provides capital and strategic support across the investment lifecycle, from initial investment to exit. It targets opportunities across multiple stages of venture investing and focuses on companies operating in artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, smart data, engineering, diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, medical devices, wellness, software, and related technology sectors.

Cisco Systems is a global technology company that designs, manufactures and sells networking hardware, software and related services. It offers routers, switches, network security products, wireless and mobility solutions, collaboration tools, data center technologies and observability software. Cisco serves businesses, organizations, service providers and individuals to build and manage networks, enable communications and enhance connectivity across industries. The company provides services in addition to its products, including technical assistance and advanced services, and manufacturing is largely outsourced with a large worldwide sales and marketing presence. With about 80,000 employees, Cisco is a leading provider of networking equipment and software, with a broad portfolio that includes security, collaboration (Webex) and enterprise networking solutions.

DNX Ventures is a San Mateo-based venture capital firm founded in 2011, with an additional office in Tokyo. It backs early-stage B2B startups, typically at seed and Series A rounds, across the United States and Japan, with focus areas including SaaS/cloud, cybersecurity, deep tech, sustainability, hardware, retail, and finance. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser and leverages a CXO network to help portfolio companies validate product-market fit and connect with Fortune 500 firms, enabling partnerships and commercial opportunities.

Skip Capital is a venture capital firm based in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 2018, Skip Capital backs technology-enabled startups across multiple stages, including early, mid, and late venture, with a focus on high-growth sectors such as SaaS, artificial intelligence, health tech, IoT, robotics, energy, education, data infrastructure, and infra-tech. The firm also supports genomics, waste and recycling infrastructure, renewable energy and decarbonization initiatives, and related technologies that address global problems. Skip Capital seeks experienced founders and teams solving complex challenges, investing in companies with strong potential to scale globally.

Square Peg Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices in Melbourne, Singapore, and Tel Aviv. It focuses on early to growth-stage investments in online and technology companies, particularly in artificial intelligence, fintech, and software-as-a-service, across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and Israel, with a broader reach that includes North America. The firm collaborates closely with entrepreneurs, leveraging extensive experience in building, investing in, and advising technology businesses from startup to scale, with a capacity to invest typically between A$20 million and A$40 million per opportunity.

Notable Capital is a U.S. venture capital firm that invests in early‑to‑growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the United States, Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select global opportunities. The firm partners with founders who pursue innovative ideas and champion causes, building remarkable companies. Its portfolio includes companies such as Airbnb, Block, HashiCorp, Slack, and Zendesk, among others.

Vulcan Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Vulcan, a global technology and investment organization founded by Paul G. Allen. It engages in investments across all stages of corporate development, including leveraged buyouts, growth and early-stage ventures, distressed/turnaround opportunities, and select public market strategies. The firm targets sectors such as healthcare, software, media and entertainment, Internet services, mobile, telecommunications, energy, data intelligence, and infrastructure, with a global reach focused on the United States, Europe, and Asia. Typical deal sizes range from about $10 million to $100 million, and investments can be held for up to a decade. Vulcan Capital is headquartered in Seattle, with an additional office in Palo Alto.

Markd is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Boulder, Colorado. It concentrates on funding and partnering with transformative insurtech companies to accelerate growth and innovation in the insurance technology sector. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser.