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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies in the U.S. with seed and early stage venture investments. | 1984 | ||||||||
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors. | 2009 | ||||||||
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. | January 1, 1984 | ||||||||
BlackRock is a US-headquartered multinational investment management corporation. | 1988 | ||||||||
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. | 1911 | ||||||||
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 firm focusing on enterprise, consumer & bioengineering. | 1970 | ||||||||
U.S-based venture capital and private equity firm investing on life sciences companies worldwide. | 1989 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Alumni Ventures Group is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mike Collins. | 2013June 19, 2013 | ||||||||
An independent venture capital firm based in Paris that provides funding for seed, early stage and late stage biotechnology ventures | 1972 | ||||||||
Bpifrance is a public-sector institution dedicated to economic development | 2012 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Lux Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in NYC and Menlo Park that invests in early-stage science and tech ventures. Lux was founded in 2000. | 2000 | ||||||||
Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and health | 1969 | ||||||||
A private equity firm focused on real estate investments involved in the cluster formation of science based companies primarily operating in the life science industry. | 1994 | ||||||||
Temasek Holdings is an investment company owned by the Government of Singapore that was founded in 1974. | 1974 | ||||||||
KKR is a private equity fund manager founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George R. Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg Jr.. | 1976 |