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.

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.

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.

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

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

Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of Salesforce focused on making investments in enterprise cloud companies.

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.

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

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.

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.

A venture capital firm in Vienna that focuses on fintech, insure tech, deep tech, industry, consumer tech, and network effects sectors

Global Founders Capital is a venture capital company. GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs.

Bpifrance is a public-sector institution dedicated to economic development

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.

Acton Capital Partners is an independent, partner-led specialist investor in internet-based, consumer-oriented businesses.

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