Unlock Venture Partners is a Seattle-based venture capital firm that backs seed-stage technology startups. Founded in 2017, it concentrates on early-stage software and other technology companies, primarily in the Seattle and Los Angeles markets. The firm pursues opportunities across metaverse, gaming, and Web3 applications, including use cases in digital media, fintech, insurance, e-commerce, and proptech.
Graham & Walker is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2017. The firm focuses on making investments in pre-seed and seed rounds within the health, software, and technology sectors. As an investment company, Graham & Walker aims to support innovative startups at their early stages, providing the necessary capital and resources to help them grow and succeed.
Imagen Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in Woodinville, Washington, that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in software, SaaS, data, and technology-enabled companies. The firm targets opportunities across the technology spectrum, with an emphasis on the Seattle area, and typically makes initial investments in the range of two to twelve million dollars. Established to support software, cloud, infrastructure, and related technology sectors, Imagen Capital Partners aims to back ambitious entrepreneurs during the early stages of product development and market entry.
Engineering Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Mountain View, California. The firm concentrates on early-stage technology investments in information technology, cybersecurity, and software as a service across the United States. It typically acts as the first outside investor in seed rounds, often leading and anchoring these rounds to form a long-term partnership with a select group of entrepreneurs and to define new categories within information technology. As of the latest information, the firm manages roughly $32 million in investment capital.
Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada. It engages in private equity and venture investments, focusing on technology and financial services sectors, including early-stage investments in exchange-related startups and opportunities in buyouts and distressed assets, often pursuing majority stakes.
Revolution is a Washington, DC-based venture capital firm that builds and supports regional startup ecosystems through its Rise of the Rest platform. Launched in 2014 to spotlight emerging startup hubs outside New York City, Silicon Valley, and Boston, the firm collaborates with regional ecosystem leaders and co-investors to identify and fund seed- and early-stage companies located outside coastal hubs. Its Rise of the Rest initiative seeks to diversify innovation geography and is supported by a network of iconic entrepreneurs and business leaders. Through Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and related programs, Revolution backs U.S.-based software, services, and technology-enabled startups, helping to scale the next generation of national regional champions.
Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that concentrates on early-stage technology investments, with a focus on seed opportunities. It manages multiple funds and has a team of investing partners, supporting technology startups through the initial funding stages.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.
Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that provides seed-stage and early-stage investments to technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on technology companies across software, telecommunications, media, and other TMT sectors, offering early funding and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.
Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, investing across North America. The firm backs founders building the future, taking early bets on talented, driven teams across sectors such as software, fintech, marketplaces, consumer products and services, education, energy, media, ecommerce, gaming, and related technology-enabled businesses. Founded in 2011, Golden Ventures focuses on seed investments in the United States and Canada and pursues opportunities across a broad range of industries, with emphasis on technology-driven platforms and early-stage companies.
Keiretsu Forum is an international investment community of accredited private equity investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors. Founded in San Francisco in 2000, it operates as a worldwide network that structures access to high-quality deal flow and investment opportunities through regional chapters across the United States, Europe and Asia. It is described as the world’s largest invitation-only angel investor network, with thousands of investor members who participate in funding opportunities for early- to growth-stage companies in technology, healthcare, energy, consumer products and other sectors. The forum emphasizes collaboration among members and partner resources to support due diligence, syndication and capital deployment, enabling private capital to back high-potential ventures.
Digital Currency Group is a Stamford, Connecticut-based corporate venture capital and investment firm focused on the digital currency and blockchain ecosystem. It provides funding and support to fintech and blockchain companies across bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and related sectors, and it owns and operates notable subsidiaries including CoinDesk, a media and events platform; Genesis Trading, a bitcoin brokerage; and Grayscale Investments, a digital currency asset management firm.
Polychain Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2016, that invests in blockchain technologies, protocols, and companies to advance global adoption of cryptocurrencies. The firm supports the development of the blockchain ecosystem and provides capital to projects across the space. It operates as a registered investment adviser (RIA).
Speciale Invest is a Chennai-based venture capital investor focused on early-stage technology startups. Established in 2017, the firm backs companies in enterprise software, software as a service, and frontier technologies, aiming to support ventures that leverage innovative tech to address complex problems and enable transformative solutions.
Trinity Ventures is an early-stage technology investment firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1986. It partners with entrepreneurs to turn innovative ideas into viable businesses, focusing on seed and early-stage investments in software, information technology and TMT, with emphasis on social commerce, digital media, SaaS and cloud infrastructure. The firm targets U.S.-based startups and has over $1 billion under management, prioritizing personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with entrepreneurs.
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology companies across the United States, with a focus on the Pacific Northwest and West Coast. It invests across stages from seed to growth, typically in information technology, software, consumer internet, digital media and advertising, fintech, data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, hardware and robotics, and often takes board seats in its portfolio companies. The firm supports early-stage to growth ventures, pursuing opportunities in areas such as the future of work and low-code/no-code, with typical investments ranging from $2 million to $10 million as lead investor.
Clear Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that focuses on very-early and early-stage investments in business technology and services. The firm supports startup teams with access to customers, talent, and strategic insights to help their ideas grow into market-leading companies.
Founded in 2017, CMT Digital is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It focuses on investments in the crypto asset and blockchain technology sectors, with an emphasis on early-stage startups.
IOBC Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley that makes early-stage investments in companies operating in web3, blockchain, and artificial intelligence.
IOSG Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Hong Kong, focused on the blockchain and crypto sectors. As a research and thesis-driven entity, IOSG Ventures aims to empower founders in creating community-driven protocols that can significantly impact the future of Web3. The firm invests in a diverse array of early-stage projects, including those in decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming (GameFi), and social finance (SocialFi), as well as infrastructure and middleware solutions. Its portfolio features notable investments such as 1inch, Illuvium, Arbitrum, and StarkWare, among others. IOSG Ventures is committed to fostering innovation in the crypto space by supporting developers and founders with a long-term perspective.
Maven 11 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2015. The firm concentrates on blockchain and distributed ledger technology, including cryptocurrency and digital assets, and invests in ventures that utilize these technologies.
RockawayX is a Prague-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in blockchain and digital assets, including infrastructure, DeFi, and NFTs. It invests globally in startups and blockchain-related ventures that advance cryptocurrency-enabled financial services and related technologies, seeking long-term value through a diversified portfolio of digital-asset opportunities.
Fenbushi Capital is a Shanghai-based blockchain-focused venture capital firm founded in 2015 by veterans from blockchain and traditional finance. It positions itself as a pioneering investor in the space and has supported numerous blockchain projects across multiple continents, spanning finance, healthcare, supply chain and consumer goods. The firm aims to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem and serves as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio companies.
Foundry Group is a Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that specializes in information technology, Internet and software companies across North America. It funds both early-stage and later-stage ventures and has launched multiple funds, including a fifth fund of about $225 million. Since inception it has invested in more than 100 companies as institutional investors and in more than 50 as angel investors, with a focus on software, digital services and related technology sectors.
Menlo Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1976 that provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. The firm uses market-driven analysis to identify investment opportunities across sectors such as marketplaces, consumer services, Dev/Ops, SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, and life sciences technology. Its portfolio includes numerous notable companies and more than 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, underscoring a track record of growth and successful exits. Menlo is active in supporting its portfolio companies through multiple stages of development and pursues investments across software, cloud infrastructure, and related technology areas.
dRx Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on healthcare technology and digital medicine. It makes early-stage investments in companies developing data-driven health solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data analytics, R&D optimization, patient care, and pharmaceutical supply chain and commercialization. The firm also backs technology platforms in mobile IT and digital health that expand access to care and transform medical practice. It operates as the investment arm of Novartis and Qualcomm, positioning its portfolio at the intersection of pharma, digital health, and data-driven healthcare.
Qiming Venture Partners is a China-based venture capital firm founded in 2006, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It manages USD and RMB funds totaling about 9.5 billion in capital and backs early- and growth-stage technology, consumer, and healthcare companies. The firm has backed more than 530 portfolio companies, with over 200 exits via IPOs or M&A, and more than 70 unicorn or super unicorn companies.
NanoDimension is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early to mid-stage companies across various sectors, including disruptive technologies, life sciences, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Founded in 2002 and based in Grand Cayman, with additional offices in Zurich and Woodside, California, NanoDimension targets investments in innovative startups primarily located in the US and Europe. The firm seeks to support exceptional entrepreneurs and focuses on companies involved in pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, and materials technology, among others. Typical investment amounts range from €0.5 million to €10 million, with an average commitment of €2 million to €5 million over the lifespan of a company. NanoDimension adopts an active investment approach, leveraging its expertise and network to foster the growth of portfolio companies that address critical global challenges.
Logos Capital is a hedge fund manager based in San Francisco, founded in 2019, specializing in fundamental biotechnology investments. The firm combines in-house data analytics with scientific and clinical expertise to rigorously evaluate potential therapies and treatment platforms. It uses fundamental and sector-focused equity strategies and applies statistical modeling of clinical data to strengthen diligence and identify compelling opportunities with the aim of delivering uncorrelated returns. By integrating medical, scientific, and statistical perspectives, Logos Capital seeks to deepen its conviction in investment ideas and maintain disciplined risk management.
TCG Crossover, also known as TCG X, is a healthcare-focused investment firm that backs companies developing disruptive medicines to improve patient outcomes. It invests in both private and public biotech companies led by entrepreneurial teams and operates with offices in Palo Alto and New York City. Founded in 2020, the firm focuses on opportunities in the United States and Europe, with emphasis on drug discovery and medicine sectors.
Vivo Capital is a healthcare-focused investment firm founded in 1996 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Asia. The firm operates a multi-strategy platform including growth equity, private equity, venture capital, and public equity, and invests across biopharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare services. It pursues opportunities globally, including the United States and China, and has invested in more than 290 companies. The team comprises physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, operating executives, and industry experts, and the firm manages about $5.8 billion in assets.
OrbiMed is a healthcare-focused investment firm based in New York, founded in 1989, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management. It engages in private equity, venture capital, and growth investments across the global healthcare landscape, spanning biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences tools, medical devices, diagnostics, health care services, and digital health. The firm invests across the development spectrum, from startup ventures to mature companies, and pursues opportunities worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia, Israel and India, leveraging a long-standing specialization in the sector. Through its diversified capital programs, OrbiMed partners with management to advance innovative therapies, tools, and services that address significant medical needs.
SignalFire is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests in seed- and growth-stage technology companies across North America. It provides data-driven insights and tailored advisory programs across sectors such as health, fintech, and cybersecurity, and supports founders with a centralized infrastructure for recruiting, business development, and customer acquisition through a distributed network of entrepreneurs, product and engineering leaders, and investors. The firm seeks to back leaders leveraging data and technology to disrupt large markets, combining hands-on support with broad connectivity to help portfolio companies scale.
Zetta Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 that concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in enterprise software, with a particular focus on analytics and artificial intelligence. Headquartered in San Francisco and with a Utah presence, the firm pursues opportunities across North America and Western Europe, aiming to back roughly twenty analytics- and AI-driven startups. Typical initial investments range from 0.5 to 2 million USD, with follow-on capital available as companies grow. By combining domain expertise in analytics with an extensive network of operators and investors, Zetta supports portfolio companies in scaling, product development, and market capture within AI-native and business-to-business software sectors.
Redpoint Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in California, with offices in Woodside, San Francisco, and Beijing and Shanghai. It backs startups across seed, early, and growth stages in technology, media, consumer internet, and enterprise software, including energy-related technology. The firm supports founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones and manages $4 billion across multiple funds.
Kearny Jackson is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco. It backs early-stage technology companies, with a focus on software-as-a-service, fintech, and infrastructure businesses.
ConsenSys is an Ethereum software company that enables developers, enterprises, and individuals to build decentralized applications, deploy modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite—Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence—serves millions of users and supports billions of blockchain queries and digital assets. The company supports an ecosystem through ConsenSys Academy, which aims to bridge Ethereum knowledge globally, and through initiatives like ConsenSys Mesh, which combines investment, incubation, and development to accelerate Web3 breakthroughs.
Brick Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Juno Beach, Florida, founded in 2017. It funds pre-seed, seed and late-seed investments in technology and non-technology startups with activity in North America and beyond. The firm is led by Andrew Craissati, who has held senior investment and operational roles at Virgin Group, National Geographic Society and NBCUniversal, and Bill Brandt, an entrepreneur who built American Woodmark into a large NYSE-listed company. Its portfolio has generated 675 jobs, of which 84% are female and 45% are non-white.
Inovia Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital firm established in 2007 that backs technology founders with global ambitions. It operates as a full-stack investor, providing capital, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network to support early- and growth-stage software startups. The firm targets software-driven companies across North America and Europe, including business-to-business and business-to-consumer SaaS, as well as sectors such as commerce, digital health, enterprise platforms, the future of work, security, travel, and hospitality, along with applied services and infrastructure. It emphasizes forming long-term partnerships and helping portfolio companies scale internationally.
Two Small Fish Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2014. It supports founders across seed, early, and later stages in Canada and the United States, with a focus on artificial intelligence, blockchain, consumer, enterprise, and technology sectors. The firm emphasizes hands-on investing from engineers and experienced operators, leveraging the partners’ track records as serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits to help the next generation of founders. The firm aims to recycle experience, knowledge, and capital gathered from previous ventures to back ambitious startups.
Ignition Partners is a Bellevue, Washington-based venture capital firm that backs software companies in the United States, focusing on B2B, enterprise software, SaaS, artificial intelligence, cloud technology, and cybersecurity. Founded in 1999, the firm provides capital along with hands-on operational support, industry insight, and strategic connections to help entrepreneurs turn ideas into scalable businesses. The team leverages experience from building successful technology companies and offers guidance across product, go-to-market, and scaling efforts, with a history of working with leaders in the software and technology sectors.
Adams Street Partners is a global private market investment management firm that serves institutional investors with private equity and venture capital capabilities. An independent, employee-owned firm with a history dating to 1972, it leverages global resources and a disciplined investment approach to navigate private markets and deliver investment performance and client service. The firm focuses on opportunities across private equity and related strategies, drawing on deep market knowledge and collaboration to support long-term value creation for its clients.
SVB Financial Group is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, offering banking, asset management, wealth management, investment services, and funds management. Founded in 1983, it operates internationally through Silicon Valley Bank and related subsidiaries, providing online banking, deposits, payments, fraud prevention, investments, credit solutions, and strategic advisory services such as deal sourcing and valuations. The group includes SVB Asset Management, a private investment manager established in 2002 and based in San Francisco, as a subsidiary, and SVB Capital, the venture capital arm that engages in fund of funds and direct investments, predominantly in technology companies in the United States.
Camber Creek is a venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled real estate businesses. Based in New York with an office in Rockville, the firm invests in real estate technology companies across the United States. Founded in 2011, Camber Creek emphasizes opportunities in information technology and real estate technology within construction, property management, development, leasing, and related activities. It supports portfolio companies by leveraging its real estate industry expertise, operating experience, and network of partners, investors, and advisors to provide strategic value beyond capital.
Amazon is a multinational technology company that operates Amazon.com and AWS. Through its corporate venture capital arm, the Alexa Fund, based in Seattle, it invests in early- to growth-stage companies worldwide in areas such as artificial intelligence, voice technology, IoT, robotics, healthcare, fintech, and digital health, among others. The company also runs The Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars, a 13-week Seattle program that supports startups focused on transforming customer experiences through voice-powered interactions, with mentorship from Amazon technologists and industry leaders.
Xsolla is a video game business engine offering a suite of tools and services to operate, monetize, and sell games. Serving the video game industry from indie to enterprise, the platform includes Xsolla Pay Station and its anti-fraud solution, Xsolla Partner Network, Xsolla Site Builder, Xsolla Store, Xsolla Login, and Xsolla Launcher; these components address distribution, marketing, payments, and monetization to help developers, publishers, and platform partners reach larger audiences and increase revenue. Headquartered in Los Angeles with global offices, Xsolla acts as a merchant and seller of record for major gaming entities such as Valve, Twitch, Ubisoft, Epic Games, and PUBG Corporation.
Round13 Capital is a Toronto-based venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2013. It invests in high-potential Canadian companies across sectors including vertical software, e-commerce, tech-enabled services, disruptive retail, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on supporting long-term growth. The firm leverages a team of experienced investors and operators to provide strategic and operational guidance, aiming to help portfolio companies reach their full potential and to create durable value for investors.
ZhenFund is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Bob Xu and Victor Wang in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. Headquartered in Beijing, it focuses on seed and early-stage investments, supporting entrepreneurs with mentorship, resources, and a large network. The firm has a portfolio of more than 800 companies, including numerous unicorns in China, and offers services such as biannual demo days, ZhenHR, marketing and PR consulting, and fundraising assistance. Its extensive CEO network enhances collaboration among entrepreneurs, notably through its WeChat platform. ZhenFund has earned recognition as a leading early-stage investor for multiple years, and its founders and partners have frequently appeared on prestigious lists such as the Midas List, reflecting its prominence in China’s startup ecosystem.
D1Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and located in Beijing, China. The firm focuses on investing in a range of sectors associated with the decentralized economy, including decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain infrastructure and tooling, gaming and the metaverse, and Web3 social applications. Additionally, D1Ventures targets investments in various blockchain ecosystems such as Polkadot, NEAR, Cosmos, and Moonbeam, as well as in areas related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and privacy solutions. The firm's mission is to support the growth of the open economy by backing innovative projects and technologies in these emerging fields.