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.
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.
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.
Uncorrelated Ventures specializes in investing in infrastructure software. The firm focuses on identifying and supporting innovative companies within this sector, aiming to foster growth and development in technologies that enhance and streamline infrastructure capabilities. By leveraging their expertise, Uncorrelated Ventures seeks to invest in solutions that address the evolving needs of businesses and organizations in an increasingly digital landscape.
Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, is one of the largest worldwide corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment. With an overall strategy to stimulate advances in computing and communications, the Intel Capital team seeks out, and invests in, promising companies worldwide, working together to establish new and innovative technologies, develop industry standard solutions, drive Internet growth, and advance the computing platform. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than $11.6 billion in approximately 1,437 companies in 57 countries. In that timeframe, 212 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 377 were acquired or participated in a merger.
Cervin Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, pre-Series A, startups, and early stage investments. The firm does not consider investments in any B2C plan. It seeks to invest in the technology sector with a focus on enterprise software, B2B software and services, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, mobile, and social media. The firm typically invests $2 million to $5 million. It may consider early exit options from its portfolio companies. Cervin Ventures is based in Newark, California with additional office in Palo Alto, California.
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.
WI Harper Group, founded in 1993, is a venture capital firm with a focus on early and early expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Silicon Valley. Managing over $1B in capital through 9 funds and 19 dedicated investment professionals, the firm specializes in technology, clean technology, and healthcare sectors. With a track record that includes successful investments in companies like DivX, Focus Media, Vizio, SiRF, and Commerce One, WI Harper Group is known for its strategic investments in start-up companies. Operating from offices in Beijing, Taipei, and San Francisco, the firm continues to play a significant role in fostering innovation and growth in the startup ecosystem.
Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc. They’ve invested in more than 300 companies that push the edge of what’s possible. In the fields of life science, healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, cyber security, and agriculture, their companies aim to improve lives and change industries.
They’ve built a team of world-class engineers, designers, physicians, scientists, marketers, and investors who work together to provide these startups exceptional support on the road to success. They help their companies interface with Google, providing unique access to the world’s best technology and talent.