Lighting venture capital investors

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

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.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is an american venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield.

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.

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

Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit organization and accelerator program for funding and launching new climate technology companies and projects.

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.

Advanced Technology Ventures focuses on investing in the ICT, infrastructure, consumer technology, bio-pharmaceuticals and medical industry.

Alumni Ventures Group is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mike Collins.

Bpifrance is a public-sector institution dedicated to economic development

Altos Ventures is typically a first-stage venture capital firm but also investments in mid venture, and late venture companies.

Bain Capital Ventures is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital that funds enterprise software opportunities across functions and industries.

Almi Invest is a venture capital company that invests in Swedish companies with scalable business models.

Dragonfly Capital is a crypto venture fund.

A venture capital firm in London that focuses on technologies.

Correlation Ventures is a venture capital firm based in the United States.

Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs in the financial technology, cloud, marketplaces, frontier technology, biopharmaceutical, digital health and medical technology industries.

Horizons Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Hong Kong, Hong Kong founded by Li Ka-shing, Debbie Chang, and Solina Chau in 1999 investing in disruptive technology companies.

A corporate venture capital company from California that focuses on startups that develop next-generation technologies