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.
Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.
Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park that funds early-stage and growth-stage companies across consumer, enterprise technology, fintech, cleantech, healthtech, and software sectors. The firm backs startups from seed through expansion rounds, providing capital and strategic guidance to help entrepreneurs scale. It operates internationally with offices in the United States, China, India, and Israel, and has a history of investing in software, mobile, data, internet, and technology-enabled services. Lightspeed emphasizes identifying emerging trends, supporting talented teams, and pursuing opportunities in areas such as enterprise infrastructure, digital platforms, and consumer technologies. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious founders to accelerate product development, go-to-market execution, and global growth.
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.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, it concentrates on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with notable focus areas including fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners manages over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies achieving an IPO. The firm combines capital with hands-on, right-sized software expertise to support portfolio companies on their growth journey from first investment to IPO.
Founded in 2009, Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It manages funds investing primarily in Series A/B and late-stage companies, with a focus on biotechnology, software, consumer goods, materials, equipment, semiconductors, healthcare, communication, and surveillance sectors across Taiwan and Silicon Valley.
Ajax Health is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2017 and based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in New York. The firm focuses on investing across the healthcare sector through all stages of the lifecycle of a company, targeting medical devices, medtech, healthcare services, digital health, biotechnology, healthcare IT, and life sciences. It seeks to accelerate medical innovation by combining capital support with hands-on capabilities to help portfolio companies grow.
DST Global is a venture capital firm established in 2009 that focuses on late-stage investments in internet and technology sectors. It backs rapidly growing companies in areas such as information technology, mobile, software, e-commerce, IoT, and other TMT-enabled businesses, often in late-stage rounds. The firm maintains a global footprint with offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong, enabling it to source opportunities and support portfolio companies internationally. Founded by Yuri Milner and partners Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford, DST Global seeks to partner with ambitious internet and tech-enabled firms as they scale, including fintech and other software-enabled industries.
Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and based in Menlo Park, California. It funds startups across the entire lifecycle, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm backs companies in software, cloud infrastructure, digital platforms, data storage, and mobile and Internet services, as well as sectors at the intersection of technology with life sciences, such as bio healthcare and computational medicine. Its investments span artificial intelligence, fintech, consumer and enterprise software, crypto and blockchain, cybersecurity, and related infrastructure. Through strategic guidance and a hands-on approach, the firm aims to help portfolio companies scale and innovate.
Meritech Capital Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 1999. It focuses on late-stage and growth-stage investments in technology companies, with emphasis on software, information technology, communications and networking, and TMT sectors in North America, primarily the United States. The firm provides substantial capital to enable scaling of established tech companies.
Founded in Singapore in 2018, Blockchain Founders Fund is a venture capital firm investing globally in early-stage blockchain startups. It offers a Venture Program to aid entrepreneurs across key business functions for accelerated growth.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a long-established venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California, founded in 1911. The firm makes early-stage and growth investments across software, cloud, fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, biotech, healthcare, consumer services, marketplaces and other technology sectors, with global reach in the United States, Israel, Canada and India. It supports founders from seed to scale, providing strategic guidance and capital to build durable businesses. The firm has backed notable companies such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Shopify, Yelp, Twilio, DocuSign and Wix, among others, reflecting a history of funding transformative technology companies. Bessemer Venture Partners operates as a registered investment adviser and pursues opportunities across information technology, hardware and services worldwide.
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.
Portfolia is a venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2013. It focuses on women-led investment initiatives and backs innovative companies across sectors including health, fintech, longevity, media, sustainability, and emerging markets, aiming for returns and positive impact. The firm connects sophisticated investors with entrepreneurial teams, supporting collaboration, due diligence, and evaluation of products and teams throughout the investment process.
Goodwater Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that targets early-stage investments in consumer technology and related sectors, including housing, financial services, consumer products and services, healthcare, food, transportation, education, and entertainment. It backs exceptional entrepreneurs who create products and platforms that consumers love, with a focus on solving pressing problems and shaping the culture and global economy. Through its investments, Goodwater aims to enable startups capable of delivering broad, measurable improvements in billions of lives, reflecting a commitment to long-term positive impact.
ICONIQ Capital is a private investment firm and global multi-family office that provides financial advisory and family office services while managing direct investments across asset classes. The firm focuses on technology growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate opportunities, serving high-net-worth families and organizations. Headquartered in San Francisco, it maintains offices in New York, Palo Alto and Singapore to support activity across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Founded in 1962 and based in Palo Alto, California, Sutter Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm that concentrates on early stage technology and life sciences companies across the United States. It seeks investments in computer technology, software, internet services, telecommunications, healthcare, consumer sectors, and related fields, and provides hands on support through experienced operating executives, a broad industry network, and strategic guidance on business planning, partnerships, and building management teams. The firm pursues a long term, value driven approach, often investing its own capital alongside limited partners in an evergreen structure to support portfolio companies over time. It emphasizes direct involvement with portfolio companies, serving as advisors and mentors to help teams execute and scale, leveraging a network of executives and resources to accelerate growth.
Ten Eleven Ventures is a cybersecurity-focused, global venture capital firm that backs cybersecurity companies across stages worldwide, addressing digital security needs. The firm identifies, funds, and helps grow top cybersecurity businesses by leveraging its team, network, and experience. Since its founding, it has raised over $1 billion and completed around 40 cybersecurity investments, including KnowBe4, Darktrace, Twistlock, Verodin, Cylance, and Ping Identity.
Established in 2021 and headquartered in Naples, Florida, ROC Venture Group is a venture capital firm that uniquely empowers investors to actively participate in shaping their investment strategy. Unlike traditional VC funds, ROC enables investors to make their own decisions while benefiting from the firm's deal sourcing and diligence efforts.
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that backs emerging technology companies worldwide and helps entrepreneurs expand into North America, Asia, and Europe. The firm employs over 100 professionals across seven countries who bring broad domain expertise. It invests in and supports companies across sectors including artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, robotics, big data, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, FinTech, health IT, and other next-generation technologies, and it also engages in consumer electronics, automotive, original design manufacturing, enterprise, gaming, healthcare, finance technology, and hardware. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva that backs technology-driven startups worldwide. Since 1996 it has partnered with entrepreneurs to turn bold ideas into global businesses, investing across early and growth stages in sectors such as artificial intelligence, software, data, fintech, healthcare, media, mobility, security, and open source. The firm focuses on high-technology and life sciences and supports portfolio companies to scale internationally. Notable portfolio companies include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell.
Glynn Capital Management is a Menlo Park-based investment firm with an office in San Francisco that focuses on technology-oriented investments across private and public markets. Founded in 1974, it pursues long-term ownership in a small number of companies with strong management teams, sustainable business models, and meaningful growth potential. The firm concentrates on information technology, artificial intelligence, big data, cybersecurity, software, and fintech sectors, targeting opportunities in both private and public technology companies at early and growth stages. It emphasizes enduring relationships with portfolio companies and value creation through disciplined capital allocation and strategic support. The firm operates as an investment adviser, aligning its interests with those of its clients and portfolio companies.
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.
Flagship Pioneering is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based venture creation firm that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category ventures to transform human health, sustainability, and related fields. It fuses scientific discovery with entrepreneurial leadership and professional capital to systematically build companies at the frontier of biology, engineering, medicine, energy, and beyond. The firm pursues ambitious, seemingly unreasonable propositions and steers them through an evolutionary development process to achieve transformational outcomes. By combining deep scientific insight with a structured, capital-backed platform, Flagship Pioneering accelerates progress in health technology, biotechnology and life sciences.
Partner Ventures is a secondary direct venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Portola Valley, California. It provides liquidity to holders of preferred stock in high-quality companies, typically taking a seat on the board and working with portfolio company management to support growth, profitability and liquidity objectives. The firm targets investments in the United States across sectors including B2B, retail, B2C, financial services, healthcare, information technology, SaaS, big data, digital health, health technology and financial technology.
Talent Resources Ventures is a boutique venture fund established in 2020 and based in New York, New York. It serves as the corporate venture capital arm of Talent Resources, focusing on early-stage consumer-facing brands. The firm aims to leverage the comprehensive capabilities of its parent organization to identify and support promising companies within the consumer products and services sector.
Xiaomiao Langcheng is a venture capital investment platform that connects early‑stage companies with investors, offering funding, mentorship, and strategic support to accelerate growth.
Borderless Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 that invests in early-stage startups operating in web3 and infrastructure, with a focus on the Algorand ecosystem and related technologies such as Algorand Standard Assets. It partners with founders to accelerate access, bootstrap adoption and create value across Algorand and EdgeFi ecosystems.
TCV is a growth-focused investment firm based in Silicon Valley that provides capital to growth-stage private and public technology companies. Founded in 1995, the firm makes equity investments across a broad spectrum of tech sectors and supports portfolio companies with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to top talent, and connections with category leaders. Since its inception, TCV has deployed more than $14 billion in over 350 technology companies, with notable exits including Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and manages multi-stage investments, including dedicated growth vehicles such as TCV X.
Founded in 2016 by Fleur Pellerin, Korelya Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris with offices in London, Seoul, and Singapore. It manages over EUR 500 million and invests in ambitious tech startups across Asia and Europe, providing growth capital and access to Asian markets.
Premji Invest is a growth-focused investment firm and family office led by Azim Premji. Founded in 2006 and based in Bangalore, India, it engages in private equity and venture capital with a focus on growth and expansion opportunities in technology, consumer, fintech, enterprise, and healthcare sectors. The firm manages the founder’s personal portfolios and operates as a multi-family office, with a presence in the United States, including Menlo Park.
Canaan Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1987 that operates globally with offices in Israel and India. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, including software, fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, digital health, biopharma, and medtech, and it has a history of backing startups that achieve exits.
Established in 2023, Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm serving as the investment arm of Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority. It focuses on early-stage investments in sectors such as fintech, edtech, digital health, logistics, future of work, impact investing, AI/ML, consumer products & services, and e-commerce within the United Arab Emirates.
G Squared is a Chicago-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2011. The firm backs companies across B2B and B2C sectors, including software, fintech, insurtech, mobility, SaaS, IoT, e-commerce and data technologies, with a broad focus on growth and technology-enabled services. It aims to support private companies as they stay private longer by providing both primary capital to fuel growth and transitional capital to facilitate liquidity for early investors, employees and other sellers. G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle, adopting a differentiated approach from traditional venture firms. The firm has backed well-known consumer and enterprise platforms such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest and Spotify, along with next-generation disruptors like Asana, Blend, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast and Turo.
Founded in Munich, Germany in 2011, ALSTIN Capital is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies with significant market potential. It focuses on sectors such as fintech, insurtech, regtech, and cybersecurity.
Altos Ventures is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, founded in 1996, with an office in Seoul. It concentrates on early-stage investments in consumer and technology companies, including software and TMT, with emphasis on founder-led, capital-efficient businesses. The firm backs companies across the globe, primarily in the United States and Asia, and participates in multiple stages from seed to later rounds, often taking minority stakes and supporting growth through follow-on funding.
Menlo Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1976 that provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. The firm uses market-driven analysis to identify investment opportunities across sectors such as marketplaces, consumer services, Dev/Ops, SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, and life sciences technology. Its portfolio includes numerous notable companies and more than 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, underscoring a track record of growth and successful exits. Menlo is active in supporting its portfolio companies through multiple stages of development and pursues investments across software, cloud infrastructure, and related technology areas.
Epiq Capital is a growth-stage investment firm based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, established in 2016. The firm specializes in partnering with entrepreneurs to scale technology companies into large and sustainable enterprises. Epiq Capital focuses on supporting founders who are developing innovative solutions within the Indian technology sector, actively seeking the next promising entrepreneurs to foster long-term growth and success.
Contrary is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017. It backs a small number of exceptional founders and the companies they build, applying a talent- and research-driven approach to identify and support early-stage opportunities.
Mars Growth Capital is a Singapore-based technology fund focused on providing non-dilutive, affordable, and liability-free growth capital to fast-growing startups and technology companies in the Asia-Pacific region. Established as a joint venture between Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's banking subsidiary and the Israeli fintech company Liquidity Capital, Mars Growth Capital aims to address the financial challenges faced by tech companies. The fund is dedicated to supporting the growth journey of startups by offering accessible funding solutions that do not compromise ownership or control.
Alpha Wave Global is an investment company with expertise in private equity, private credit, and public markets. Established in 2012, the company focuses on partnering with exceptional founders and management teams in growth-stage companies, primarily within the information technology sector.
Threshold Ventures, formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that provides venture and growth capital to technology companies. It emphasizes a high-conviction investment approach and partners with entrepreneurs building software, consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology ventures.
Employee Stock Option Fund is a San Mateo, California-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2012. It provides cash advances to employees participating in equity incentive plans to exercise private company stock options and cover associated taxes, enabling liquidity while preserving upside. The firm emphasizes rigorous due diligence and a fast transaction protocol to evaluate and close deals, and it focuses on technology sector investments across the United States, with roughly 500 million dollars under management.
Toy Ventures is an operator-led venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Berkeley, California, focusing on seed and early-stage investments and seeking minority stakes in its portfolio companies.
Adams Street Partners is a global, independent, employee-owned private markets investment management firm based in Chicago. Founded in 1972, it serves institutional investors by managing capital across private equity and private debt, with a primary focus on private equity and a smaller allocation to private debt. The firm also engages in venture capital investments across seed to growth stages, and it targets a broad range of industries. It emphasizes disciplined investing, extensive market knowledge, and strong client service, supported by a collaborative, globally resourced team. Adams Street Partners seeks to deliver solid investment performance through a long-term, risk-aware approach.
Mayfield Fund is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1969 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Mumbai, India. It specializes in early-stage to growth-capital investments in technology companies across sectors including enterprise software, data, communications and wireless, semiconductors, consumer internet, health tech, energy tech, and IT-enabled services. The firm typically targets companies with strong growth potential, supports co-investment networks and lead or co-lead roles in rounds, and often participates in follow-on financing. It pursues global opportunities, with a focus on California (San Francisco Bay Area) and cross-border investments in Europe, India, and China, as well as substantial operations in India and China. Investments range from seed to growth, including debt in select situations, and it emphasizes collaboration with founders from inception to scale iconic enterprise, AI-first, and health-tech ventures. The firm avoids public markets and leverages its global network and experience to help portfolio companies scale.
Sapphire Ventures is a global software-focused venture capital firm with teams across Austin, London, Menlo Park and San Francisco. It partners with visionary management teams and venture funds to back companies that can become category leaders and has backed hundreds of companies worldwide, generating a track record of public listings and acquisitions. The firm operates a multi-pronged platform—Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport—that combines growth and early-stage investing with a portfolio-growth team providing strategic resources and operational support to help portfolio companies scale. Sapphire Sport is an early-stage investment vehicle focused on the intersection of sport, media and entertainment technology, while the broader platform targets software, cloud, cybersecurity, AI and other technology-enabled sectors.
Founded in 2014, SGH Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Luxembourg. It focuses on disruptive business models and creative entrepreneurs across the US, Europe, and India, investing across various technology verticals.
IDG Capital is a Beijing-based venture and growth-stage investment firm that backs technology-enabled companies across global markets, with a strong emphasis on China and Asia. It invests across seed, early, later, and growth stages and pursues buyouts, with interests spanning information technology, software, consumer products and services, healthcare, energy, SaaS, mobile, TMT, and advanced manufacturing. The firm leverages a worldwide network of limited partners, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutional investors, and philanthropic and educational endowments, to support portfolio companies. With deep local market knowledge and extensive relationships with business leaders, IDG Capital combines global perspective with local execution to facilitate inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the broader Asian region.