Social commerce venture capital investors

Y Combinator (also known as YC) is a US-based seed accelerator, which was started in March 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.

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.

Intel Capital is a venture capital division of Intel that manages corporate venture capital, investments, mergers, and acquisitions.

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.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is an american venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage start-ups in education, research, health care, and social work.

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.

Insight Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology and software companies.

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.

A venture capital firm in Stamford, Connecticut that focuses on the market of digital currency.

Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of Salesforce focused on making investments in enterprise cloud companies.

OurCrowd is a global equity crowdfunding platform founded in February 2013 by Jonathan Medved.

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023.

The Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983 by Jim Swartz.

A venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California that was founded by Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian and Harjeet Taggar in 2012. The firm focuses primarily on making investments in the software industry.

Seedcamp is a European investment firm and seed fund founded by Reshma Sohoni and Saul Klein in 2007.

BlackRock is a US-headquartered multinational investment management corporation.

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.