Name | Description | Location | Key People | Founded Date | Blog | Official Website | Twitter URL | ||
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Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 2005. | 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. | 2011 | ||||||||
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. | November 1, 1972 | ||||||||
Andreessen Horowitz (also named a16z) is a US venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andresseen and Ben Horowitz in 2009. | 2009 | ||||||||
500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm discovering and backing entrepreneurs. | 2010 | ||||||||
Intel Capital is a venture capital division of Intel that manages corporate venture capital, investments, mergers, and acquisitions. | 1991 | ||||||||
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. | 1977 | ||||||||
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. | 2006 | ||||||||
Insight Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology and software companies. | January 1, 1995 | ||||||||
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. | 2009 | ||||||||
DFJ is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. | 1985 | ||||||||
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. | 2000 | ||||||||
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors. | 2009 | ||||||||
OurCrowd is a global equity crowdfunding platform founded in February 2013 by Jonathan Medved. | February 2013 | ||||||||
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in companies operating in a diverse range of technology sectors such as energy, transportation, space, financial, software, hardware, big data, agriculture, food, education, and materials. Khosla Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and was founded by Vinod Khosla in 2004. | January 1, 2004 | ||||||||
Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023. | 1983 | ||||||||
A venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California that was founded by Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian and Harjeet Taggar in 2012. The firm focuses primarily on making investments in the software industry. | 2016 | ||||||||
Tiger Global is an investment firm that was founded in 2001. | 2001 | ||||||||
Alumni Ventures Group is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mike Collins. | June 19, 20132013 | ||||||||
Pantera is an investment company which focused on ventures and projects related to digital currency, crypto assets and blockchain technology. | February 12, 2003 | ||||||||
Menlo Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1976 by Henry DuBose Montgomery. | 1976 | ||||||||
The Founders Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, investing in technology companies that was founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howry, and Luke Nosek. | 2005 | ||||||||
U.S-based venture capital and private equity firm investing on life sciences companies worldwide. | 1989 | ||||||||
StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education. | January 1, 2011 | ||||||||
Venture capital and private equity firm based in San Francisco. | 2016 |