Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 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.
Andreessen Horowitz (also named a16z) is a US venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andresseen and Ben Horowitz in 2009.
500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm discovering and backing entrepreneurs.
Techstars is a worldwide network of seed accelerators, startups events, and newsletters.
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.
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.
DFJ is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1985 by Tim Draper.
Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of Salesforce focused on making investments in enterprise cloud companies.
GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies including DiDi Chuxing, ele.me, Inke, ofo, Qunar, Shanghai DZH and Xiaohongshu.
Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983.
OurCrowd is a global equity crowdfunding platform founded in February 2013 by Jonathan Medved.
BlackRock is a US-headquartered multinational investment management corporation.
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.
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors.
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.
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage, seed, series A and startup investments.
The Founders Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, investing in technology companies that was founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howry, and Luke Nosek.
Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023.
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.
Alumni Ventures Group is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mike Collins.
Jsquare is a crypto investment and advisory company, aiming to be the top tier investment institution in the blockchain industry
Lux Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in NYC and Menlo Park that invests in early-stage science and tech ventures. Lux was founded in 2000.
Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and health