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.
Intel Capital is a venture capital division of Intel that manages corporate venture capital, investments, mergers, and acquisitions.
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.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is an american venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield.
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies in the U.S. with seed and early stage venture investments.
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.
Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit organization and accelerator program for funding and launching new climate technology companies and projects.
True Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies.
Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is the independent nonprofit technology transfer organization serving the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research.
BlackRock is a US-headquartered multinational investment management corporation.
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.
Advanced Technology Ventures focuses on investing in the ICT, infrastructure, consumer technology, bio-pharmaceuticals and medical industry.
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.
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.
Menlo Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1976 by Henry DuBose Montgomery.
U.S-based venture capital and private equity firm investing on life sciences companies worldwide.