Communication 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.

Andreessen Horowitz (also named a16z) is a US venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andresseen and Ben Horowitz in 2009.

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.

Techstars is a worldwide network of seed accelerators, startups events, and newsletters.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors.

StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education.

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.

Venture capital firm focusing on enterprise, consumer & bioengineering.

Tiger Global is an investment firm that was founded in 2001.

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.