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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 | ||||||||
Techstars is a worldwide network of seed accelerators, startups events, and newsletters. | 2006 | ||||||||
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. | 1977 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is an american venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. | 1972 | ||||||||
Insight Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology and software companies. | January 1, 1995 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit organization and accelerator program for funding and launching new climate technology companies and projects. | 2012 | ||||||||
True Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies. | January 2005 | ||||||||
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors. | 2009 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Softbank is a multinational conglomerate holding company that owns stakes in technology, energy, and financial companies. As well, SoftBank invests in technology-focused companies through the Vision Fund. | September 3, 1981 | ||||||||
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. | January 1, 1984 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
A venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California that was founded by Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian and Harjeet Taggar in 2012. The firm focuses primarily on making investments in the software industry. | 2016 | ||||||||
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. | 1911 | ||||||||
Tiger Global is an investment firm that was founded in 2001. | 2001 | ||||||||
StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education. | January 1, 2011 |