Coaching 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.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is an american venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage start-ups in education, research, health care, and social work.

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.

DFJ is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1985 by Tim Draper.

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.

Antler is a Singapore-based accelerator and incubator firm investing in early-stage technology companies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

ICONIQ Capital is a family investment, private equity, and venture capital firm in California, which focuses on technology.