Celebrity venture capital investors

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.

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.

OurCrowd is a global equity crowdfunding platform founded in February 2013 by Jonathan Medved.

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.

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies including DiDi Chuxing, ele.me, Inke, ofo, Qunar, Shanghai DZH and Xiaohongshu.

Bain Capital is a Boston-headquartered global alternative investment firm specializing in private equity, venture capital, and credit products. It was founded in 1984 by Bill Bain, Mitt Romney, Coleman Andrews, and Eric Kriss.

The Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983 by Jim Swartz.

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.

Bain Capital Ventures is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital that funds enterprise software opportunities across functions and industries.

A microventure capital firm and syndicate in California that focuses on seed and early stage investments.

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.

Jsquare is a crypto investment and advisory company, aiming to be the top tier investment institution in the blockchain industry

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts making early and growth investments in startup companies.

SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of SoftBank focused on investing in technology companies. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017.

Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Howard Anderson, Rick Frisbie and Bob Barrett.

Atomico is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, England founded by Niklas Zennström in 2006, making series A and onwards investments in technology companies.

Seventure Partners is a venture capital firm investing in life science and digital technology companies that was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Paris, France.

Partech Ventures is a venture capital firm in France that focuses on investing at the seed, venture, and growth stages.

SoftBank Group is a multinational conglomerate holding company investing in businesses and technologies based in Minato, Tokyo-based company founded in 1981 by Masayoshi Son.

Highland Capital Partners invests in early stage enterprise and consumer technology companies in the United States.

Benchmark is an American venture capital firm invests in social, mobile, local and cloud companies.

A private equity firm in France that focuses on providing leveraged buyouts, debt, venture capital, growth capital, acquisition financing, public equity and buy-in investment solutions.