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Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 2005. | 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. | 2011 | ||||||||
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. | November 1, 1972 | ||||||||
Andreessen Horowitz (also named a16z) is a US venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andresseen and Ben Horowitz in 2009. | 2009 | ||||||||
500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm discovering and backing entrepreneurs. | 2010 | ||||||||
Intel Capital is a venture capital division of Intel that manages corporate venture capital, investments, mergers, and acquisitions. | 1991 | ||||||||
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. | 2006 | ||||||||
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies in the U.S. with seed and early stage venture investments. | 1984 | ||||||||
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. | 2009 | ||||||||
Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of Salesforce focused on making investments in enterprise cloud companies. | 2009 | ||||||||
OurCrowd is a global equity crowdfunding platform founded in February 2013 by Jonathan Medved. | February 2013 | ||||||||
Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023. | 1983 | ||||||||
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. | January 1, 2004 | ||||||||
The Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983 by Jim Swartz. | 1983 | ||||||||
StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education. | January 1, 2011 | ||||||||
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage, seed, series A and startup investments. | 2012 | ||||||||
Lux Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in NYC and Menlo Park that invests in early-stage science and tech ventures. Lux was founded in 2000. | 2000 | ||||||||
U.S-based venture capital firm investing on early-stage startups. | 2004 | ||||||||
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts making early and growth investments in startup companies. | 2005 | ||||||||
A venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology, business services, communications, education, financial technology, healthcare, infrastructure, property, security, retail and travel and leisure companies. | 2008 | ||||||||
KKR is a private equity fund manager founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George R. Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg Jr.. | 1976 | ||||||||
Partech Ventures is a venture capital firm in France that focuses on investing at the seed, venture, and growth stages. | 1982 | ||||||||
A venture capital and private equity firm in London, England. | 1999 | ||||||||
SoftBank Group is a multinational conglomerate holding company investing in businesses and technologies based in Minato, Tokyo-based company founded in 1981 by Masayoshi Son. | 1981 | ||||||||
In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and known as In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology. | 1999 |