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.
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.
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.
Insight Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology and software companies.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage start-ups in education, research, health care, and social work.
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.
Aspect Ventures is an American venture capital firm.
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.
Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of Salesforce focused on making investments in enterprise cloud companies.
Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983.
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors.
StartX is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education.
Tiger Global is an investment firm that was founded in 2001.
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.
Menlo Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based company founded in 1976 by Henry DuBose Montgomery.
Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023.
Bain Capital Ventures is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital that funds enterprise software opportunities across functions and industries.
SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of SoftBank focused on investing in technology companies. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017.
ICONIQ Capital is a family investment, private equity, and venture capital firm in California, which focuses on technology.
Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Howard Anderson, Rick Frisbie and Bob Barrett.
Amino Capital is a venture firm focusing on data driven startups, and blockchain-powered next generation protocols.
Venture capital firm focused on early stage technology companies.
Seedcamp is a European investment firm and seed fund founded by Reshma Sohoni and Saul Klein in 2007.