Curriculum venture capital investors

Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 2005.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

True Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies.

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

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.

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

Venture capital firm focusing on enterprise, consumer & bioengineering.

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.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm in New York City which has backed companies such as Twitter, Foursquare and Zynga.USV is a small collegial partnership that manages over $1B across seven funds. Our portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets.

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

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.

Bowery Capital is an early-stage venture capital investor based in New York.