New Enterprise Associates is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across stages and geographies, supporting startups from seed to growth. The firm operates globally with investments in the United States, Asia, and Brazil among others, and has a long track record of portfolio IPOs and acquisitions. It has over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda, the firm is stage-agnostic, prioritizing seed and Series A investments in scalable businesses with strong unit economics and potential to become market leaders. Typical checks run from fifty thousand to five million dollars. FJ Labs leverages a broad network to support portfolio companies in fundraising and growth and frequently co-invests with other global funds to amplify impact. The firm emphasizes rapid decision-making to speed deployment and pursues opportunities in large economies with mature venture ecosystems.

Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional offices across the United States. The firm specializes in equity and debt investments, including growth equity, senior and subordinated debt, and mezzanine financing, with a focus on small businesses and underserved communities. It collaborates with state and federal economic programs to support local economic development and has financed companies in sectors such as manufacturing, technology, business services, energy, and agribusiness, including renewable and solar projects. The firm targets opportunities across growth stages and aims to create lasting economic impact by expanding opportunity in low-income areas through private investment and public-private partnerships.

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is an early and growth-stage investor that backs entrepreneurs building world-class technology companies across software, consumer, enterprise IT, information technology, healthcare, fintech, security, and media sectors. The firm emphasizes a global community of founders, operators, and resources, providing more than capital to help portfolio companies scale. Its investments span geographies including the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and other regions, and its portfolio has included notable companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, and many others. With decades of experience, Accel partners with teams to turn early-stage ideas into category-defining businesses and to accelerate growth through strategic guidance and networks. The firm focuses on practical, long-term support for scalable technology ventures.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It finances startups across seed, early, and growth stages, with a focus on technology-driven sectors such as information technology, internet, software, mobile, and telecommunications, as well as healthcare, energy, financial services, and related industries. The firm supports ambitious founders through capital allocation and guidance, aiming to help build durable companies that reach IPOs or acquisitions. Sequoia operates globally with investments in the United States and international markets, often engaging across multiple rounds and collaborating with portfolio companies throughout their growth lifecycle. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships, rigorous due diligence, and a hands-on approach to scaling operations, product development, and go-to-market strategies.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 that strengthens the Philadelphia region's technology ecosystem by providing capital, strategic guidance, and professional connections to technology startups and growth companies across Philadelphia, Bucks, Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery counties. It serves as a seed-stage capital provider and investor across information technology, health, and physical sciences, advancing technology commercialization through university–industry partnerships and regional initiatives. The organization aims to accelerate innovation, create jobs, and build a robust entrepreneurial community by offering funding, mentorship, and access to a broad network of resources.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. Founded in 2000 and based in the United States, the firm backs startups across consumer, enterprise software, fintech, crypto, and health technologies, offering mentorship and strategic guidance to help ideas scale. It participates in seed and growth rounds, often taking minority or majority stakes, and supports portfolio companies with resources and networks across North America and Europe.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, focused on seed-to-growth investments in deep tech, life sciences, hardware and software, with a strong emphasis on human and planetary health. The company operates startup development programs such as HAX and IndieBio, offering facilities, labs, engineering resources, mentorship, and collaborative workspaces to help founders advance technology and accelerate fundraising. Beyond capital, SOSV provides hands-on support to accelerate product development, customer acquisition and scaling, connecting portfolio companies with a global network of partners and investors. Its ecosystem spans multiple regions and markets, including cross-border ventures in Asia, and it maintains a portfolio of startups that have progressed to subsequent funding rounds. In addition to direct investments, SOSV’s programs and resources are designed to help early-stage companies mature toward scalable, sustainable growth while fostering innovation across sectors that address health, climate, and technology challenges.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, founded in 2013. It connects accredited individual investors—especially alumni from top entrepreneurial schools—to venture opportunities by pooling investments and backing companies with alumni connections alongside institutional lead investors. The firm offers diversified portfolios through focused funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, enabling access to venture deals across sectors, stages, and geographies. It emphasizes transparency, due diligence, and co-investment with established venture capital firms.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya. Founded in 2000, the firm backs companies across seed, early, and growth stages, investing in software, enterprise technology, consumer internet, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech sectors. It provides equity and debt financing and seeks opportunities globally, including the United States, Asia, and Israel. Lightspeed partners with entrepreneurs to scale businesses from inception through expansion, supporting a broad range of sectors such as AI, mobile, e-commerce, data infrastructure, and security. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships and hands-on involvement to help portfolio companies navigate growth and market dynamics.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm backs technology companies across stages from seed to growth, with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, and consumer internet and fintech, often investing at the intersection of computer science and other industries; it supports portfolio companies with capital and resources to drive innovation and scale.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It backs companies across the technology spectrum, including digital health, life sciences, healthcare, consumer and enterprise software, fintech, cybersecurity, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other information technology sectors, supporting them from early stages through growth and beyond. The firm partners with founders from inception to IPO, providing capital and strategic guidance to help turn bold ideas into scale. It maintains specialized efforts to assist seed-stage founders, including software-driven tools and services aimed at recruiting, financing, and operations, drawing on decades of investing experience. Through its global reach, Kleiner Perkins seeks long-term partnerships with ambitious teams across regions to accelerate product development, market adoption, and value creation.

Tiger Global Management is a New York-based investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital to private and public markets worldwide, with a focus on technology, internet, consumer and financial services sectors, and regions including the United States, China, India, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The firm employs public equity strategies such as long/short and growth, alongside private investments across early to late stages, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and supporting portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle.

Morningside Group is a venture capital firm founded in 1986, originally established as a family office for the Chan family, and is based in the greater Boston area. The firm makes venture investments in companies with novel science and technology, pursuing a long-term, patient approach to company-building and emphasizing ethical practices. Its investment focus spans life sciences, digital health, artificial intelligence, materials science, and information technology. In addition to its investment activities, Morningside supports charitable initiatives in education, research, and healthcare, with partnerships including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

Insight Partners is a global private equity and venture capital firm that partners with growth-stage software, internet, and data-services companies to accelerate revenue growth and long-term value. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in New York, it focuses on software-enabled sectors including Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare, and has backed more than 750 companies worldwide, with numerous portfolio companies achieving IPOs. The firm provides capital, hands-on operational guidance, and a broad network to help growing software companies move from product-market fit to IPO, assisting with product development, M&A, efficiency, and geographic expansion. As of 2022, Insight Partners reported over 75 billion in assets under management and maintains offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto to support its global portfolio.

Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. It backs entrepreneurs across seed and growth stages and invests across consumer, enterprise and healthcare sectors. The firm has backed notable companies such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast, and it has about $19 billion in assets under management.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital and angel investment firm that backs early-stage software and technology-enabled companies across the United States. The firm provides business development, financing and strategic advisory services, including M&A support, leveraging its network to help founders at critical inflection points. Known for a high-volume approach, SV Angel evaluates and backs a broad slate of startups each year, aiming to accelerate growth and help build lasting companies through hands-on guidance and connections.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

Gaingels is a venture capital organization focused on supporting LGBTQ+ founders and leaders and their allies. It invests across stages and industries, building a global portfolio of 130+ companies and deploying around $70 million in capital. Beyond funding, Gaingels helps portfolio companies recruit diverse C-suite and board talent and fosters a global community of investors, operators, and entrepreneurs working toward inclusive leadership and positive social change through business.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests across seed to growth stages in science and technology companies addressing difficult problems. The firm backs ventures across sectors such as aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, consumer Internet, software, and related technologies, seeking transformative impact. It maintains a founder-friendly approach that emphasizes strong support with minimal interference. Founders Fund has backed notable companies including SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb, and pursues a global investment footprint across the United States and beyond.

Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based seed- and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology-driven startups across IT, software, internet-enabled services, EdTech, FinTech, IoT, digital media, and related sectors in the United States, with a Bay Area emphasis. Founded in 2008, the firm backs diverse entrepreneurial teams and frequently co-invests with other angels or venture funds in early rounds. Ulu is noted as the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is among the largest in the country by assets under management, with over $200M.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital investment firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. It focuses on software as a service investments and provides investment services to clients, informed by market trend analysis, and serves sectors such as finance, technology, and real estate.

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that, as of March 2024, operates as two distinct brands: Granite Asia, headquartered in Singapore, investing in the APAC region including Southeast Asia, Japan, China, India and Australia; and Notable Capital, based in Silicon Valley with offices in San Francisco and New York, investing in the United States, Israel, Europe and Latin America. The firm backs early- and growth-stage technology companies and leverages an international network to help portfolio companies scale across borders.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.

Battery Ventures is a global technology-focused investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1983, the firm is a private equity and venture capital investor that backs technology companies across stages, with emphasis on application software, infrastructure software, consumer and industrial technologies, and life science tools. It pursues growth opportunities in software, information technology, and related sectors, providing capital and value-added support such as talent acquisition, business development, and growth strategies to help portfolio companies scale from early stage to market leaders.

Redpoint Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in Woodside, California, with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Shanghai. It partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones and makes investments across seed, early, and growth stages. The firm operates multiple funds and manages about four billion dollars in total. Its investment scope covers technology, media, and energy-related opportunities, including consumer Internet, software, enterprise IT services, fintech, and digital media, with a China-focused arm, Redpoint China Ventures, backing early-stage opportunities in China across technology, telecommunications, and related sectors. Redpoint seeks to be a lead or co-lead investor in its portfolio companies and pursues a global footprint, including the United States and international markets. The emphasis is on minority and early-stage bets in high-potential sectors, aiming to back founders with the potential to disrupt established industries.

Founder Collective is a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in New York. It invests in technology startups across the United States at seed and pre-seed stages, supporting founders from initial concept through outcomes. Built by successful entrepreneurs, the firm prioritizes founder alignment and capital efficiency, fostering a community of founders through insights and collaboration. The investment approach emphasizes long-term partnerships with ambitious, technology-focused teams, investing in software and TMT sectors.

Service Provider Capital is a venture capital firm that co-invests in seed and Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds. Founded in 2014 and based in Colorado, the firm operates multiple regional funds across the United States, including Rocky Mountain and View regions, to support early-stage technology companies. Its focus spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, hardware, information technology, robotics, and health technology sectors.

RA Capital Management is a Boston-based investment management firm specializing in growth-oriented and early-stage support for healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health companies. The company deploys capital across private seed rounds, series financings, and public markets, with a focus on drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and tools that advance patient care. It leverages a science-driven approach through its research platform TechAtlas and provides value-added services such as board representation, executive recruitment, and market intelligence to portfolio companies. The firm operates an incubator program called Raven to nurture biomedical innovation and maintains an Innovator Resources program to guide company development. RA Capital emphasizes evidence-based investing, long-term partnerships, and social responsibility, aiming to drive value creation from inception through commercialization.

Venrock is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. Based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York City, it specializes in seed and early-stage investments across technology and healthcare, including information technology, software, cybersecurity, genomics, and digital health. The firm supports entrepreneurs with capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network to help build enduring companies. Notable portfolio entries include Apple, Illumina, Gilead Sciences, Intel, Nest, Endeca, and SlideShare, reflecting a history of backing influential technology and life sciences ventures.

Sand Hill Angels is a member-driven angel investor group based in Mountain View, California, with a 60-plus member network that supports early-stage technology startups. Founded around 2000, the group provides seed to Series A funding, mentorship, and meaningful connections to customers, partners, and venture capital firms to help startups scale. Typical investments range from $300,000 to $500,000 in rounds with pre-money valuations under $5 million, and it backs companies across sectors such as semiconductors, enterprise software, storage, and communications, as well as clean technology, internet, information sciences, and life sciences including medical devices, diagnostics, and bioinformatics. Sand Hill Angels collaborates with other venture funds and angel organizations to foster the Bay Area ecosystem and broader North American tech growth, sourcing deals and building long-term partnerships.

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.

Threshold Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Menlo Park, California, that backs technology-focused startups at early stages, primarily in Series A and B rounds. It emphasizes a sustained, hands-on partnership with founder-led companies, offering strategic guidance, operational input, and access to networks beyond capital, and often takes board seats to support product development, market positioning, hiring, and go-to-market planning. The firm backs disruptive consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies and pursues a high-conviction investment approach with a nimble operating style to help founders achieve scalable growth.

OrbiMed is a global healthcare investment firm founded in 1989 and based in New York, with a worldwide presence that includes offices in several regions. It allocates capital across private equity, venture capital, and public equity to support healthcare companies at various stages, from startups to established firms. Its focus spans biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences tools, and digital health, as well as healthcare services. The firm pursues opportunities across major markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, often leveraging region-specific teams to invest in companies in Israel, China, India, South Korea, and other jurisdictions. OrbiMed emphasizes building world-class companies by providing strategic financing, industry expertise, and global resources to portfolio companies in pursuit of medical breakthroughs and sustainable growth.

Global Founders Capital is a global venture capital firm and platform established by Rocket Internet, founded in 2013 and based in Berlin. It operates as a stage-agnostic investor that backs early-stage technology companies worldwide, working with exceptional founders across diverse sectors and providing support from the initial growth phase. The firm emphasizes global reach and seeks opportunities in software and technology sectors, aiming to help high-potential teams scale rapidly.

Norwest Venture Partners is a global technology venture capital and growth equity firm based in California. Founded in 1961, it has funded hundreds of companies across seed to growth stages in software, IT infrastructure, Internet and consumer, enterprise services, financial services, healthcare, and life sciences. The firm operates across North America, Israel, India and other markets, leveraging a broad network and operating experience to help CEOs and founders scale. It provides capital and strategic guidance, supporting portfolio companies through multiple rounds as needed, and offers resources designed to accelerate growth and build long-term value. Norwest emphasizes a collaborative approach, partnering with entrepreneurs to navigate milestones and expand market reach, with the goal of fostering durable, high-impact businesses.

Notable Capital is a U.S.-based venture capital firm that backs early-to-growth stage technology companies, focusing on cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications. It invests across the United States, Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities. The firm supports portfolio companies across various software and tech sectors, including cloud infrastructure, security, developer tooling, and consumer software, with examples such as Affirm, Airbnb, HashiCorp, Slack, Zendesk, Vercel, Ibotta, Orca Security, Quince, Brightwheel, Drata, Handshake, Slice, StockX, and Stori.

Spark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco with offices in Boston and New York City. It backs founders developing innovative products across all sectors and stages, guiding them to achieve success on their own terms. The firm has funded notable companies including Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker and Tumblr, illustrating its willingness to back consumer, software, and technology leaders. Spark Capital emphasizes flexibility over prescriptive playbooks, supporting entrepreneurs from seed through growth rounds, and partners with portfolio companies to help scale products and go-to-market strategies while spanning sectors such as consumer, software, fintech, media, and education.

First Round Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on pre-seed, seed, and early-stage investments in technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. It aims to build a community of technology entrepreneurs and provides founder-focused services to help companies grow from inception, including hands-on involvement and networking opportunities. The firm has offices in San Francisco and New York and typically makes initial investments around $500,000, with a track record of helping portfolio companies raise follow-on capital and advance to later rounds. Notable portfolio companies include Uber, Square, and Warby Parker.

Citigroup is a global diversified financial services firm that provides a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions. It operates primarily through two segments: Global Consumer Banking, which offers traditional retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and related services to individual customers, and Institutional Clients Group, which delivers wholesale banking products and services including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivatives, research, corporate lending, investment banking and advisory, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a worldwide footprint with operations across multiple regions and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility as part of its growth and economic progress initiatives.

Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva that partners with entrepreneurs to turn bold ideas into global businesses. Founded in 1996, the firm backs technology-driven startups across sectors including artificial intelligence, data, software, fintech, healthcare, media, mobility, and consumer platforms, providing early and growth-stage funding along with hands-on support to scale product, go-to-market, and operations. It has backed notable companies such as Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell, reflecting a history of helping portfolio teams grow internationally. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and a collaborative approach to help startups realize global reach and market leadership.

BoxGroup is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology startups from pre-seed to Series A across consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life sciences, marketplaces, and related sectors. The firm supports entrepreneurs working at the start of movements in existing markets or new markets yet to be created and seeks category-defining companies. It has invested across SaaS, mobile, biotech, climate tech, and other tech, with typical checks ranging from tens of thousands up to about one million dollars. BoxGroup targets opportunities in New York City, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles, takes a global investment view, and historically does not take board seats.

True Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 2005 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in early-stage technology startups, providing seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in the United States. The firm emphasizes active founder support through The True Platform, which offers programs to inspire professional and personal growth for portfolio companies. True Ventures maintains a team of experienced professionals and advisers and has backed more than 350 companies, helping to create 85,000 jobs worldwide. The firm manages more than $3.8 billion in capital across multiple funds and has been recognized for its contributions to the entrepreneurship ecosystem, including being named Venture Firm of the Year in 2018 by the National Venture Capital Association.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company headquartered in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a broad range of electronics and information technology products. The company operates in consumer electronics, mobile communications, IT, and device solutions, offering smartphones, tablets, TVs, home appliances, PCs, memory and storage products, and other electronic components. It is a leading producer of semiconductors and display technologies and supplies components for its own devices as well as external customers. Samsung Electronics maintains a worldwide presence across regions including Korea, North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific, supports repair and service for its products, and invests in research and development to advance advanced materials, processing, and new architectures. It is widely regarded as the largest smartphone and television manufacturer in the world, underpinning a broad ecosystem of devices and technologies.

Polaris Partners is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1996. It invests in technology and life sciences companies across the United States and Europe, supporting multiple stages from early development to growth. Its portfolio spans software, healthcare information technology, digital health, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and related life sciences, with emphasis on molecules, platforms, therapeutics, genomics, and data-driven healthcare solutions. The firm maintains a presence in Boston and San Francisco and emphasizes deep engagement with founders, offering strategic guidance and network resources to accelerate growth.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma. It provides seed- and early-stage capital to technology startups, occasionally supporting later rounds such as Series B, and often invests alongside co-investors. The firm emphasizes strategic introductions and hands-on guidance to help portfolio companies scale, with a focus on software, TMT, and other technology sectors. By partnering with founders and other investors, Liquid 2 Ventures aims to align capital with long-term company growth.

Crosslink Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1989 and based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and media companies across the United States, supporting founders from seed-stage through growth and pre-IPO rounds. The firm seeks market-disrupting category creators across enterprise and consumer technology, with investments spanning software, digital media and internet services, energy technologies, computing and semiconductors, and related sectors. Through its portfolio, Crosslink has backed notable companies such as Bleacher Report, Chime, Postmates and Omniture, reflecting a history of helping early-stage firms scale and achieve strategic exits.

Matrix Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 and based in San Francisco that funds early-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on applied AI, B2B software, fintech, health tech, infrastructure and hardware, and supports ventures from idea to Series A with a hands-on, founder-friendly approach drawn from its team of former entrepreneurs. It has backed and partnered with companies such as Apple, FedEx, Oculus, Canva, Zendesk and HubSpot, Postmates and Fivetran, illustrating a history of broad technology investments across the United States, China and India. Matrix Partners combines local knowledge with global experience to help portfolio companies scale into category-leading businesses.

WI Harper Group is a cross-border venture capital firm with offices in Beijing, Taipei, and San Francisco. Founded in 1993, it focuses on early and early expansion investments across the United States, Greater China, and the Asia Pacific, with a history of backing technology, healthcare, clean technology, and related sectors. The firm pursues a global-local approach, providing financing, strategic guidance, and partnerships to help startups through early growth toward exits such as IPOs or acquisitions.

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 1995. The firm backs early-stage and growth-stage technology startups across sectors including enterprise software, fintech, consumer technology, data platforms, security and privacy, and digital energy. It emphasizes hands-on, conviction-based investing and founder-led partnerships, often acting as lead investor and taking board seats to support portfolio companies from formation through scale. Notable areas of focus include software, information technology, fintech, and emerging technologies such as AI and blockchain; the firm has backed companies across consumer, enterprise, and fintech ecosystems and has facilitated IPOs and acquisitions for portfolio companies.