Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 2005.
SOSV (formerly SOS Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Sean O'Sullivan that provides growth, seed, and venture capital funding to startups. SOSV runs six seed accelerator programs: HAX Accelerator, Chinaccelerator, MOX, IndieBio, RebelBio, and Food-X.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that has invested in companies like Google, Apple, Cisco, YouTube, AirBnB, and WhatsApp. The firm was founded in 1972 by Donald Valentine, and companies backed by Sequoia have created over $3.3 trillion dollars in market capitalization.
Andreessen Horowitz (also named a16z) is a US venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andresseen and Ben Horowitz in 2009.
500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm discovering and backing entrepreneurs.
Intel Capital is a venture capital division of Intel that manages corporate venture capital, investments, mergers, and acquisitions.
Techstars is a worldwide network of seed accelerators, startups events, and newsletters.
New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm that invests primarily in technology and healthcare. It has locations in the United States and China.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is an american venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield.
Plug and Play is a Sunnyvale, California-based company founded by Saeed Amidi that offers a service that includes accelerator programs, corporate innovation, and investment. Previous investments include Dropbox, PayPal, Lending Club, N26, FiscalNote, Honey, Rappi, Guardant Health, Shippo, and SoundHound.
SV Angel is an angel investment group founded in San Francisco in 2009 that primarily invests in early-stage technology companies. Notable companies SV Angel has invested in include Stripe, Reddit, Notion, Headspace, Color, Patreon, Credit Karma, Poshmark, and GitHub.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in start-ups with the potential to become global businesses. It was founded in 1996 and has locations all over the world.
Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of Salesforce focused on making investments in enterprise cloud companies.
Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983.
BlackRock is a US-headquartered multinational investment management corporation.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to build high-growth market-leading companies globally.
StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education.
Venture capital firm focusing on enterprise, consumer & bioengineering.
Tiger Global is an investment firm that was founded in 2001.
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage, seed, series A and startup investments.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer, enterprise and healthcare companies. It was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Alumni Ventures Group is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mike Collins.
Greylock is a venture capital firm that back entrepreneurs building consumer and enterprise software companies. Their investments include Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook , LinkedIn, Medium, Nextdoor, and Okta among others.
Bain Capital Ventures is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital that funds enterprise software opportunities across functions and industries.
Softbank is a multinational conglomerate holding company that owns stakes in technology, energy, and financial companies. As well, SoftBank invests in technology-focused companies through the Vision Fund.