Research and development venture capital investors
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies in the U.S. with seed and early stage venture investments. | 1984 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Antler is a Singapore-based accelerator and incubator firm investing in early-stage technology companies. | 2017 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
High-Tech Grunderfonds is a German venture capital firm that focuses on seed or startups by providing early venture, seed capital and mezzanine financing. | 2005 | ||||||||
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. | 2005 | ||||||||
Menlo Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1976 by Henry DuBose Montgomery. | 1976 | ||||||||
U.S-based venture capital and private equity firm investing on life sciences companies worldwide. | 1989 | ||||||||
Alumni Ventures Group is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mike Collins. | June 19, 20132013 | ||||||||
Global Founders Capital is a venture capital company. GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs. | 2013 |
