Insight Partners is the most trusted scale-up firm in the software industry. Their team of industry-leading experts partner with companies to drive extraordinary success that is fueled by know-how, grit, and hands-on collaboration. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity.

Sequoia Capital Global Equities extends Sequoia Capital’s technology investing efforts into the public markets. SCGE currently manages over $7 billion and invests in companies across the global technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors, primarily focusing on software, internet, financial technology, and technology-enabled consumer businesses. The firm’s portfolio consists of concentrated, long-term investments in leading companies across the world. While the majority of the portfolio is comprised of public companies, SCGE also partners with entrepreneurs through late-stage private crossover investments, often investing alongside Sequoia Growth funds. The firm’s private portfolio includes emerging leaders in the United States, China, India, Brazil, Korea, and Israel. As these private companies become public, SCGE grows the partnership with additional investments at the IPO and beyond.

We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $170 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.

The Techstars Dubai Accelerator in partnership with GINCO is expanding Techstars’ presence in the Middle East. GINCO is a full service general contracting firm, covering the full lifecycle of the construction process from concept to execution and supervision. Dubai is known for their leadership in technology innovation. Pioneering entrepreneurs leading innovative companies solving challenges in transportation, construction, wellness, IoT, robotics, & beyond should apply, no matter your location.

Battery Ventures is a technology-focused private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1983, with offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, and Israel. The firm specializes in investing in cutting-edge businesses across various sectors such as application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies. Battery Ventures seeks to invest in companies of all stages, from seed to late stage, and focuses on technology-driven companies globally. The firm typically invests between $5 million and $50 million over the life of the investment, with the ability to invest up to $100 million. Battery Ventures takes on board memberships in its portfolio companies and can act as a lead institutional investor, either taking a minority or majority stake in the companies.

Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies. The seed-stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. It seeks to generate financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu also follows the logical principles of portfolio construction. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs. In 2018, Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera established the firm in Palo Alto, California.

A Rockstart Accelerator is an intensive startup program that helps entrepreneurs take their companies from early traction to the global market in 6 months. It provides investment, office space, highly specialized knowledge, and access to a broad network of international mentors, partners and investors. During this program, the startups enroll in 30+ workshops on Lean Startup, Growth Strategies, Fundraising, Sales, PR & Marketing, Team & Personal development, Legal & Finance and more. After 100 days the entrepreneurs present their companies to investors, partners, entrepreneurs and industry journalists in Demo Day. Finally, in a month-long program in Silicon Valley startups expand their international network and learn from the world’s leading tech scene.

UV Partners, Inc., operating as Pelion Venture Partners, is a venture capital firm established in 1986, with a focus on early-stage investments in technology companies across the United States. They specialize in investing in information technology and life sciences companies, with a particular emphasis on B2B software. The firm's investment team, consisting of 7 members, leverages their deep and diverse industry experience to provide hands-on support to portfolio companies. Pelion Venture Partners seeks to invest in companies based in the Western United States, particularly in regions like the Intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, and Northern California. They typically invest between $0.5 million and $10 million in a company over multiple rounds of funding, aiming to take a lead investor role in the first institutional financing round and often securing a Board seat in their portfolio companies. With offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Manhattan Beach, California, Pelion Venture Partners aims to help entrepreneurs transform early-stage concepts into successful industry-leading companies.

Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of salesforce.com, inc. specializing in startups, co-investments, and late venture investments in companies that are raising an institutional round of financing. The firm seeks to invest in artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, enterprise technology, mobile technology and mobile enterprise companies creating apps for mobile phones including programs that work on the Salesforce1 mobile platform, listed on the firm’s app exchange, machine learning and intelligence, verticals, internet of things, and wearable smart devices and connected products. It prefers not to lead deals. Salesforce Ventures is based in San Francisco, California.

DFJ began in 1985 with a focus on early-stage companies. Tim Draper, a third-generation VC with a passion for technology and unconventional thinking, teamed with John Fisher, a former colleague of Draper's, known for his deep enterprise and tech finance experience. Together they shaped the firm's foundational philosophy of investing in people first. One of their first recruits was co-founder Steve Jurvetson. Together they went on to invest in break out companies like Baidu, Hotmail, and Skype. A decade ago, they added their Growth team dedicated to late-stage investing. Today, they have two teams investing two funds. Their Venture team works with founders in the early phases of company building. Their Growth team partners with companies entering hyper-growth mode. DFJ has backed 27 companies that have each achieved more than $1 billion in realized value through an initial public offering or acquisition.