Name | Description | Location | Key People | Founded Date | Blog | Official Website | Twitter URL | ||
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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 | ||||||||
500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm discovering and backing entrepreneurs. | 2010 | ||||||||
Techstars is a worldwide network of seed accelerators, startups events, and newsletters. | 2006 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage start-ups in education, research, health care, and social work. | January 1, 2000 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
OurCrowd is a global equity crowdfunding platform founded in February 2013 by Jonathan Medved. | February 2013 | ||||||||
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors. | 2009 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Menlo Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1976 by Henry DuBose Montgomery. | 1976 | ||||||||
Global Founders Capital is a venture capital company. GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs. | 2013 | ||||||||
Alumni Ventures Group is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mike Collins. | June 19, 20132013 | ||||||||
NFX is a venture capital firm with locations in California and Israel . It was founded in 2015. | 2017 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts making early and growth investments in startup companies. | 2005 | ||||||||
Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Howard Anderson, Rick Frisbie and Bob Barrett. | 1983 | ||||||||
ICONIQ Capital is a family investment, private equity, and venture capital firm in California, which focuses on technology. | 2011 | ||||||||
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. | 1981 | ||||||||
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways. | 2010 | ||||||||
Venture capital firm focused on early stage technology companies. | 1999 | ||||||||
A venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology, science, society, and culture. |