Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

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.

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.

High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies in Germany. Based in Bonn with an additional office in Berlin, it operates as a public-private partnership that supports high-tech startups across information technology, software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry and related fields. HTGF provides initial funding and follow-on capital to eligible young companies, often taking minority stakes and participating as lead or co-investor, while offering hands-on guidance from experienced investment managers and startup experts. Since its founding in 2005, the firm has backed numerous startups and facilitated the growth of portfolio companies through multiple funds aimed at early stages. The model combines both public support, involving government and financial institutions, with private investor participation to nurture startups from concept to market.

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.

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.

Gaingels is a venture investment organization focused on LGBTQ+-founded and led companies and their allies, investing across stages from pre-seed to pre-IPO and maintaining a global portfolio. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it operates as a syndicate with more than 130 portfolio companies and around $70 million deployed. The organization supports inclusive leadership by backing ventures that promote diverse C-suite and board representation and actively assists portfolio companies in recruiting diverse executive talent. It also fosters a global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who pursue positive social change through business and successful investments.

Overtime is a New York–based sports media company that creates and distributes digital-first sports content and operates professional leagues to engage a global, youthful audience. It produces original programming across YouTube, Snapchat, and IGTV, plus short-form content on Instagram and TikTok, and it runs sports leagues that monetize through sponsorships, digital advertising, media rights, and merchandise. The company also develops Overtime, a video highlight app that enables filming, editing, and slow-motion replays for school and amateur sports, and it sells branded apparel and accessories online. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Overtime has backing from leading venture capital firms and industry figures. The business combines media production, league operations, and commerce to reach a large online community of young fans.

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.

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.

Morningside is a Boston-based investment firm founded in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family. It makes venture capital investments in companies with novel science and technology, with deep expertise in life sciences, digital health, artificial intelligence, materials, and technology. The firm takes a long-term approach to building companies and emphasizes ethical conduct. In addition to its investment activities, Morningside supports charitable initiatives in education, research and healthcare, including collaborations with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

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.

Vangoo Capital Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Beijing, China, with additional offices in Suzhou and Chengdu. Founded in 2008, the firm invests in early and growth stage companies in China, focusing on technology, healthcare, and education, with emphasis on information technology, digital signal processing, medical services and devices, and mobile health. It seeks to back high-growth Chinese enterprises and supports portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

Stardom Ventures is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in media-tech businesses. The firm targets opportunities in video technology, content, advertising technology, media, marketing, and commerce sectors.

ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings, founded in 2015 and based in Osaka, Japan, investing across Japan in early- to late-stage startups in services, technology, video distribution, video advertising, virtual reality, augmented reality, and near-future entertainment sectors.

STV Group is a Scottish digital media company that creates and broadcasts television programs, produces news and entertainment content, and operates digital platforms. It runs television channels in Scotland and delivers content on air, online, and on demand through STV Player and stv.tv, offering news, sports, weather, and entertainment across its services. The group operates STV Glasgow, STV Edinburgh, STV Aberdeen, and STV Dundee and generates revenue from advertising airtime and space as well as internet services. Its production arm, STV Productions, develops and co-produces programmes for the UK and international markets, often in partnership with distributors. Headquartered in Glasgow, the company serves the Scottish market with multi-platform access across apps and websites and pursues distribution and partnership arrangements to extend its reach beyond traditional broadcasts.

PowerHouse is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative companies focused on video, games, and artificial intelligence.

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

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.

Inveready Asset Management is a San Sebastián, Spain-based venture capital firm established in 2008 that specializes in incubation, seed and early-stage investments, venture debt and growth capital. It focuses on technology and biotechnology sectors across Spain and Europe, with a preference for opportunities in Catalonia and the Madrid region, and operates offices in Barcelona and Madrid. The firm backs startups in software, security, hardware, fintech, healthcare technology and related fields, typically investing at early to expansion stages. Through multiple investment vehicles, Inveready supports a broad portfolio of companies and seeks exits via acquisitions by multinational buyers or public listings. The group emphasizes a hands-on approach to help portfolio companies scale, and while its activity is anchored in Spain, it pursues a wider European tech and biotech investment scope.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cervin Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that concentrates on capital-efficient, early-stage investments in enterprise software and related B2B technologies. The firm primarily backs U.S.-based startups building tools, applications, infrastructure and SaaS, focusing on software, enterprise software and infrastructure. It leverages the operating backgrounds of its investors to help founders build enduring companies and avoid hype cycles. Cervin Ventures has backed a range of portfolio companies, including LaunchDarkly, Paystand and Celona, and aims to support founders with strategic guidance, network access and hands-on partnership to accelerate growth and long-term value creation.

GreenSky Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm that funds early-stage Canadian technology companies. It focuses on B2B technology ventures with protectable IP and experienced management, backing high-growth startups through affiliated accelerator funds. The firm pursues opportunities in information technology, cleantech, and medtech, providing not only capital but strategic guidance drawn from its technology, finance, and legal expertise. With a local footprint and experienced team, GreenSky Ventures supports entrepreneurs aiming to scale in the Canadian market.

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.

Pareto Holdings is a venture capital firm and venture studio founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York. It focuses on early-stage and pre-seed investments across industries and geographies, often backing entrepreneurs at the outset. The company invests its own capital rather than raising external funds and operates with a lean, globally distributed team. It has completed hundreds of investments to date, and provides hands-on support to startups through its venture studio activities.

Creandum is a European early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Stockholm with offices in London, Berlin, and San Francisco. It backs technology and consumer businesses across Europe and North America, providing capital as well as strategic and operational support to help portfolio companies scale from seed to exit. The firm leverages a broad network and hands-on involvement to help founders recruit, grow, and navigate international markets. Notable portfolio companies include Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic, Pleo, and Neo4j.

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.

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.

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.

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York City. It focuses on early-stage investments across technology-enabled sectors, supporting founders with flexible, founder-centric backing. The firm has backed high-profile consumer and software companies such as Twitter, Discord, Oculus, Warby Parker, Tumblr, Niantic, and Anthropic, reflecting a tendency toward ambitious products and teams that reshape consumer, media, and technology markets.

Honeystone Ventures is an early-stage software investment firm based in Palo Alto, California. It backs software startups at the earliest stages of development, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds to help founders build and validate products.

Founded in 2012, D11Z Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Heilbronn, Germany. It invests in early-stage companies operating in technology sectors across Germany and Israel.

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.

HV Capital is a Munich- and Berlin-based venture capital firm that supports founders in building internet and technology companies. Founded in 2000 as HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, it has financed around 200 startups across growth stages and has backed notable portfolio companies such as Zalando, Delivery Hero, FlixMobility and SumUp. The firm invests across a broad range of sectors including fintech, B2B, e-commerce, enterprise, travel, education, mobility, healthcare and retail, and provides capital from early to growth rounds, reflecting its ability to fund companies through multiple growth phases.

Peterson Partners is an independent investment management firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It manages assets across private equity, seed-stage venture, search funds, and real estate, and adopts a value-add partnership approach with entrepreneurs, seeking more than capital. Founded in 2003, the firm has invested in over 200 companies, primarily in the United States with activity in Canada, Europe, Mexico, Brazil, and India. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including business services, software, internet, retail, consumer health, transportation, industrials, fintech, digital commerce, and consumer technology.

Tiferes Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York, that invests in ambitious startups.

SeedFunders is a Florida-based venture capital firm and angel investor network focused on early-stage technology startups. Based in Saint Petersburg with activity in Orlando, it supports pre-seed and seed companies through capital, mentorship, and strategic guidance to develop products and scale operations. The firm engages across sectors including business software, financial services, healthcare IT, cloud technology and other technology-enabled industries, offering ongoing support such as regular steering meetings with founders and key stakeholders, technical assistance, and advice on building a minimum viable product.

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.

Ayre Group is a multinational investment company based in Antigua and Barbuda that targets opportunities in technology and related industries, with a portfolio spanning real estate, blockchain, media and publishing, health and wellness, travel and leisure, and technology-enabled sectors including artificial intelligence, big data, computing, supply chain, payments, data storage and security, advertising, and finance.

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.

Fil Rouge Capital is a Europe-focused venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology and tech-enabled companies. It pursues investments across sectors such as IT, software as a service, e-commerce, consumer and business products and services, IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced manufacturing, and infrastructure, typically deploying equity or debt and aiming to complement founders' technical and entrepreneurial backgrounds. The firm operates across Europe, with activity reported in Luxembourg, Croatia and Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovenia, Austria and Southern Germany, and has shown willingness to invest opportunistically in other European markets. Typical investment sizes range from 0.5 to 5 million euros.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm headquartered in Munich that pursues a long-term, flexible capital approach. It targets pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds across sectors including financial services, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, crypto and web3, deeptech and e-commerce. The firm works closely with ambitious founders to help build category leaders by offering strategic guidance and operational support, including marketing and sales expertise, talent access, and connections to its broad B2B and investor network to assist fundraising. With a philosophy of staying engaged throughout the lifecycle of portfolio companies, Picus Capital has backed more than 50 ventures to date, combining disciplined investment thinking with entrepreneurial pragmatism.

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.

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.

Wonder Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Malibu, California that invests in technology startups at the early stage. It focuses on companies spanning software, blockchain, consumer technology, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, transportation and logistics. While anchored in Southern California, Wonder Ventures actively supports teams in major markets such as Los Angeles, New York City and Silicon Valley, seeking to back founders with strong ideas and long-term solutions.

Everywhere Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2017. It operates as a community-powered, early-stage investor that combines capital, mentorship, and operational experience from founders and operators across ten micro funds. The firm funds pre-seed startups globally, with emphasis on purpose-driven teams in the money, health, and work verticals, and typically participates in the first financing round. Its limited partners include more than 500 founders and operators who provide hands-on guidance and contribute to the fund's capital. The model centers on founders helping founders, aiming to accelerate the next generation of entrepreneurs through a collaborative platform rather than a traditional fund structure.

Dentsu Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Dentsu Group, focused on investing in startups from seed to growth stages. Based in Tokyo, Japan, it seeks opportunities in the marketing and communications sectors across the United States, Europe, and Asia.