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Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 2005. | 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. | November 1, 1972 | ||||||||
Andreessen Horowitz (also named a16z) is a US venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andresseen and Ben Horowitz in 2009. | July 6, 2009 | ||||||||
500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm discovering and backing entrepreneurs. | April 1, 2010 | ||||||||
Founded in 2018, Coinbase Ventures is the investment arm of Coinbase and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. The firm seeks to invests in early-stage companies operating in cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. | 2018 | ||||||||
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. | February 2006 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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. | 1996 | ||||||||
Antler is a Singapore-based accelerator and incubator firm investing in early-stage technology companies. | 2017 | ||||||||
Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983. | January 1, 1983 | ||||||||
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. | 2000 | ||||||||
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors. | 2008 | ||||||||
Tiger Global is an investment firm that was founded in 2001. | April 13, 2001 | ||||||||
Menlo Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1976 by Henry DuBose Montgomery. | 1976 | ||||||||
Blackstone Group is a global investment firm focused on real estate, hedge fund investments, and financing. | 2015 | ||||||||
SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of SoftBank focused on investing in technology companies. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017. | 2017 | ||||||||
NFX is a venture capital firm with locations in California and Israel . It was founded in 2015. | |||||||||
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts making early and growth investments in startup companies. | January 1, 2005 | ||||||||
U.S-based venture capital firm investing on companies worldwide. | 2006 | ||||||||
Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Howard Anderson, Rick Frisbie and Bob Barrett. | 1983 | ||||||||
KKR is a private equity fund manager founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George R. Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg Jr.. | January 1, 1976 | ||||||||
Temasek Holdings is an investment company owned by the Government of Singapore that was founded in 1974. | January 1, 1974 | ||||||||
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. | September 3, 1981 | ||||||||
IDG Capital Partners is an investment firm in China that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector | 1992 | ||||||||
The a16z Cultural Leadership Fund connects cultural leaders with emerging technology companies with the stated goal of enabling more African Americans to enter the technology industry. |