Educational entertainment venture capital investors | 57 results

Name	Description	Location	Key People	Founded Date	Blog	Official Website	Twitter URL
Y Combinator	Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 2005.	Mountain View, California United States	Paul Buchheit Geoff Ralston Ali Rowghani Jared Friedman Jon Levy Michael Seibel Aaron Epstein Eric Migicovsky Tim Brady (entrepreneur) Harj Taggar (entrepreneur) Adora Cheung (entrepreneur) Dalton Caldwell (entrepreneur) Aaron Harris (entrepreneur) Gustaf Alstromer Carolynn Levy Kirsty Nathoo Anu Hariharan Kat Manalac	2005	blog.ycombinator.com ycombinator.com/blog	ycombinator.com	twitter.com/ycombinator
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)	Andreessen Horowitz (also named a16z) is a US venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andresseen and Ben Horowitz in 2009.	Menlo Park, California United States San Francisco New York	Marc Andreessen David George David Ulevitch Chris Dixon Ben Horowitz Peter Levine (venture capitalist) Martin Casado Alex Rampell Scott Kupor Satish Talluri Andrew Chen (investor) Jeff Jordan (entrepreneur) Arianna Simpson Angela Strange Anish Acharya Frank Chen Julie Yoo Naithan Jones Kristina Shen John O'Farrell (entrepreneur) Rex Salisbury Chris Lyons Alex Immerman Ali Yahya Andy Tran (Investor) Anne Lee Skates Bennett Carroccio Connie Chan (Investor) D’Arcy Coolican Eddy Lazzarin Jade Lai Jamie Sullivan Jennifer Li Jonathan Lai Jorge Conde (investor) JT Evans Dr. Judy Savitskaya Dr. Justin Larkin Kathryn (Katie) Haun Kimberly Tan Lydia Green Matt Bornstein Matthieu Hafemeister Mehul Mehta Nicole Stanners Peter Lauten Sarah Wang Seema Amble Dr. Vijay S. Pande Dr. Vineeta Agarwala	2009	a16z.com/news a16z.com/posts	a16z.com	twitter.com/a16z
500 Global	500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm discovering and backing entrepreneurs.	Mountain View, California San Francisco Istanbul United States Vietnam	Christine Tsai Tim Chae Bedy Yang Khailee Ng Courtney Powell ‌ Tony Wang ‌ Rina Onur Santiago Zavala Vishal Harnal Paul Yoo Brinda Dutta	2010	500.co/blog 500.co/blog/istanbul 500.co/theglobalvc	500.co	twitter.com/500GlobalVC
Techstars	Techstars is a worldwide network of seed accelerators, startups events, and newsletters.	Boulder, Colorado New York Canada London	David Brown (entrepreneur) Jared Polis David Cohen (entrepreneur) Brad Feld Jag Singh Jenny Fielding Ted Serbinski Sunil Sharma (entrepreneur) Cody Simms Amos Schwartzfarb Matt Kozlov Jason Seats Barry Givens Bob Moczydlowsky Isaac Kato Fabio Maffioli Evan DiLeo KJ Singh Matthew Miller Elle Navarro Bruno Keith Camhi Audun Abelsnes Vijay Tirathrai Lesa Mitchell Martin Olczyk Ben Liao	2006	techstars.com/content techstars.com/newsroom	techstars.com	twitter.com/techstars
Intel Capital	Intel Capital is a venture capital division of Intel that manages corporate venture capital, investments, mergers, and acquisitions.	Santa Clara, California California United States	Tammi Smorynski Arun Chetty Andy Fligel Yair Shoham Roi Bar-Kat Anthony Lin Dave Flanagan Tamiko Hutchinson Mark Rostick Trina Van Pelt Nick Washburn Jen Ard Sean Doyle Abdul Guefor Dave Johnson Sunil Kurkure Mark Lydon Tianlin Wang Noam Kaiser Chiara Sommer Ranjeet Alexis Thomas Urban Srinivas Ananth Gerald Chan Don Faria Eric King Elana Lian Nebiu Mela Dave Mueller Yibo Nian Vijay Reddy Sunil Sanghavi Karen Stafford Divya Sudhakar Zhenyu Tang Erica Wu Indeshaw Adenaw Asaf Araki Adi Caspi Josiane Ishimwe Tyler Welt Alexandra Farmer Maya Matthews Lital Shiryan Shira Vissoker Christian Buerger Eric Cooper Bill Huang Arturo Litvin Matt Stone	1991	intel.com/content/www/us/en/intel-capital/news.html#/type=All/page=0/term=/tags=	intelcapital.com	twitter.com/intelcapital
Plug and Play	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.	Sunnyvale, California Cleveland New York City Munich Tokyo Beijing Shanghai Amsterdam Paris Stuttgart Berlin Frankfurt Milan Abu Dhabi Jakarta Singapore Bangkok California New York United States	Saeed Amidi Alireza Masrour Fan Wen	2006	plugandplaytechcenter.com/resources plugandplaystartupcamp.com/blog	plugandplaystartupcamp.com plugandplaytechcenter.com plugandplaytechcenter.com/abu-dhabi plugandplaytechcenter.com/insurance	twitter.com/plugandplaytc
Silicon Valley Bank	Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023.	California India United States United Kingdom Canada Germany Denmark Sweden Israel Santa Clara, California Palo Alto, California		1983	svb.com/newsroom	svb.com svb.com/svbcapital svb.com/svb-capital svb.com/uk	twitter.com/svb_financial
Tiger Global Management	Tiger Global is an investment firm that was founded in 2001.	New York City New York London	Chase Coleman Kalyan Krishnamurthy Feroz Dewan	2001	rimzy.net/category/tiger-global-management	tigerglobal.com/home	twitter.com/Tiger_Global
StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)	StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education.	Palo Alto, California	Cameron Teitelman Joseph Huang Amélie Marichal Bella Fojut Amanda Dawson Amanda Brief Darsh Mann Ana Japaridze Pierre Collignon	January 1, 2011	startx.com/med	startx.co startx.stanford.edu startx.com	twitter.com/startx
Acton Capital Partners	Acton Capital Partners is an independent, partner-led specialist investor in internet-based, consumer-oriented businesses.	Munich Germany		2007		actoncapital.com	twitter.com/ActonCapital
Great Oaks Venture Capital	A venture capital firm with a focus on investing in early stage start-ups. It was founded in 2005 and is located in New York City, New York.	New York City New York United States	Andrew Boszhardt Jr. Celine Kwok	2005	greatoaksvc.com	greatoaksvc.com	twitter.com/GreatOaksVC
GGV Capital	GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.	Menlo Park, California San Francisco Singapore Shanghai Beijing New York	‌ Erica Yu ‌ Jixun Foo Hans Tung ‌ Jenny Lee (entrepreneur) Jeff Richards (entrepreneur)	2000	ggvc.com/insights/category/global	ggvc.com	twitter.com/GGVCapital
Balderton Capital	A venture capital firm in London that focuses on technologies.	London United Kingdom	Suranga Chandratillake ‌ Bernard Liautaud	2000	medium.com/balderton	balderton.com	twitter.com/balderton
Northzone	A European venture capital firm investing in technology companies.	Stockholm London New York City Oslo United Kingdom	Tellef Thorleifsson Lea Bajc Michiel Kotting Jeppe Zink	1996	medium.com/northzone	northzone.com	twitter.com/northzonevc
DreamIt Ventures	DreamIt Ventures is an accelerator and venture capital firm that focuses on investing in the healthcare, internet of things, and real estate technology sectors	Philadelphia New York City New York United States	David Bookspan ‌ Steve Welch (entrepreneur) Steve Barsh	2008	dreamit.com/blog	dreamitventures.com dreamit.com	twitter.com/dreamitinsightly
Foundry Group	A Boulder-based venture capital firm that invests in companies within the information technology sector	Boulder, Colorado		2007	foundrygroup.com/blog	foundrygroup.com	twitter.com/foundrygroup
Amazon Alexa Fund	The Alexa Fund is a venture fund provides up to $100 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation for developers, device-makers, and companies.	Palo Alto, California Seattle United States	‌ Paul Bernard Rodrigo Prudencio	2015	developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/news	alexafund.com developer.amazon.com/alexa-fund	twitter.com/alexadevs
Valor Capital Group	A venture capital firm in New York that focuses on Brazil and US-Brazil cross-border opportunities.	New York City San Francisco São Paulo New York Brazil	Clifford Sobel ‌ Scott Sobel	2011		valorcapitalgroup.com	twitter.com/valorcapgroup
Kapor Capital	Kapor Capital is the venture capital investment arm of the Kapor Center for Social Impact based in Oakland, CA.	Oakland, California				kaporcapital.com	twitter.com/KaporCapital
NewSchools Venture Fund	An entrepreneurship program and venture capital firm in California that focuses on entrepreneurial ventures serving high-need students within public education.	Oakland, California		1998	newschools.org/blog	newschools.org	twitter.com/nsvf
InnoVen Capital	A venture debt firm in India that focuses on providing debt financing.	Mumbai	‌ Tarana Lalwani	2008	innovencapital.com/News_in?lang=in	innovencapital.com	twitter.com/innovencap_in
Mohr Davidow Ventures	Mohr Davidow Ventures is a venture capital firm in California that focuses on early stage technology-based startups.	Menlo Park, California San Mateo, California California Virginia		1983	mdv.com/2019/03	mdv.com	twitter.com/mohrdavidow
Rothenberg Ventures	Rothenberg Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mike Rothenberg.	San Francisco United States	Mike Rothenberg	2012	medium.com/@mikerothenberg/adventures-in-frontier-technology-bed4591cbce6#.z4blfy9cu	rothenbergventures.com	twitter.com/TheFrontierVC
Hack VC	Hack VC is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments	San Francisco United States		2021	medium.com/hackvc	hack.vc	twitter.com/hack_vc
Swisscom Ventures	Swisscom Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Swisscom, that specializes in early stage tech investments.	Zürich Bern Lausanne Switzerland		2007		swisscom.ch/en/business/sem.html ventures.swisscom.com	twitter.com/Swisscom

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.