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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is an american venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. | 1972 | ||||||||
DFJ is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. | 1985 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Blackstone Group is a global investment firm focused on real estate, hedge fund investments, and financing. | 2015 | ||||||||
1955 Capital is a U.S.-based venture capital firm that invests in technologies developed in the Americas and Europe that are meant to solve underdeveloped countries' challenges. | 2015 | ||||||||
Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs. | 1983 | ||||||||
Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage investing. It was founded in 2008 by Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera in Palo Alto, California. | 2008 | ||||||||
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts making early and growth investments in startup companies. | 2005 | ||||||||
RebelBio was a pre-seed venture capital brand of SOSV that accelerated seventy eight biotech startups. It merged with SOSV’s IndieBio brand in 2020 and is now based in New York City. | 2014 | ||||||||
A startup accelerator for biotechnology companies located in San Francisco, California. | 2015 | ||||||||
Temasek Holdings is an investment company owned by the Government of Singapore that was founded in 1974. | 1974 | ||||||||
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. | 2006 | ||||||||
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. | 1997 | ||||||||
ICONIQ Capital is a family investment, private equity, and venture capital firm in California, which focuses on technology. | 2011 | ||||||||
Firstminute Capital is a $100m European seed-stage venture capital fund founded in 2017 by Brent Hoberman. | 2017 | ||||||||
Germany-based venture capital firm focused on European tech startups. | 1997 | ||||||||
Partech Ventures is a venture capital firm in France that focuses on investing at the seed, venture, and growth stages. | 1982 |