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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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
DFJ is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. | 1985 | ||||||||
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors. | 2009 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Advanced Technology Ventures focuses on investing in the ICT, infrastructure, consumer technology, bio-pharmaceuticals and medical industry. | 1979 | ||||||||
StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education. | January 1, 2011 | ||||||||
U.S-based venture capital and private equity firm investing on life sciences companies worldwide. | 1989 | ||||||||
Venture capital and private equity firm based in San Francisco. | 2016 | ||||||||
Bpifrance is a public-sector institution dedicated to economic development | 2012 | ||||||||
RebelBio was a pre-seed venture capital brand of SOSV that accelerated seventy eight biotech startups. It merged with SOSV’s IndieBio brand in 2020 and is now based in New York City. | 2014 | ||||||||
A startup accelerator for biotechnology companies located in San Francisco, California. | 2015 | ||||||||
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. | 2005 | ||||||||
Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and health | 1969 | ||||||||
A private equity firm focused on real estate investments involved in the cluster formation of science based companies primarily operating in the life science industry. | 1994 | ||||||||
Temasek Holdings is an investment company owned by the Government of Singapore that was founded in 1974. | 1974 | ||||||||
Seventure Partners is a venture capital firm investing in life science and digital technology companies that was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Paris, France. | 1997 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation operates as a non-profit organization that focuses on healthcare, poverty, and educational sectors in developing countries. | January 1, 1997 | ||||||||
Fifty Years is a venture capital seed fund based in San Francisco, California founded by Seth Bannon and Ela Madej in 2016 and focuses on investing in the impact technology market. | 2013 |