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 | ||||||||
Intel Capital is a venture capital division of Intel that manages corporate venture capital, investments, mergers, and acquisitions. | 1991 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
True Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies. | January 2005 | ||||||||
A corporate venture capital firm in California that focuses on life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology sectors. | 2009 | ||||||||
Silicon Valley Bank was a commercial bank specializing in investing capital into technology companies. It was shut down in March 2023. | 1983 | ||||||||
The Accel Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto founded in 1983 by Jim Swartz. | 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 | ||||||||
Venture capital firm focusing on enterprise, consumer & bioengineering. | 1970 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Global Founders Capital is a venture capital company. GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs. | 2013 | ||||||||
Venture capital and private equity firm based in San Francisco. | 2016 | ||||||||
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. | 2017 | ||||||||
Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Howard Anderson, Rick Frisbie and Bob Barrett. | 1983 | ||||||||
Atomico is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, England founded by Niklas Zennström in 2006, making series A and onwards investments in technology companies. | 2006 | ||||||||
In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and known as In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology. | 1999 | ||||||||
A venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology, science, society, and culture. | |||||||||
U.S-based global venture capital firm investing on companies from seed-stage to later-stage. | 2006 | ||||||||
Highland Capital Partners invests in early stage enterprise and consumer technology companies in the United States. | 1987 | ||||||||
The a16z Cultural Leadership Fund connects cultural leaders with emerging technology companies with the stated goal of enabling more African Americans to enter the technology industry. | |||||||||
DCM Ventures is a company founded in 1996 by David Chao. | 1996 | ||||||||
Soma Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Aneel Ranadive. | March 9, 2015 |