Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 2005.
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.
Techstars is a worldwide network of seed accelerators, startups events, and newsletters.
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.
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.
Insight Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology and software companies.
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.
Alsop Louie Partners is an early-stage technology venture capital firm.
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.
True Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology 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.
Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983.
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.
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage, seed, series A and startup investments.
Menlo Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1976 by Henry DuBose Montgomery.
Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023.
Arthur Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the information technology, life sciences, healthcare, and clean technology sectors.