Founded in 1936, Kinnevik is an investment company focused on building digital consumer businesses globally. It partners with talented founders to create and invest in fast-growing companies, aiming to deliver both shareholder value and positive social impact.
Thayer Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on technology companies serving travel and hospitality. It backs software, information technology, and SaaS providers across travel, transportation, hospitality, and related services, including foodservice, lodging, cruise lines, airlines, and travel tech. Founded in 2009, the firm is headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Valencia, California, and invests across seed, early, and growth stages in North America and globally.
Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It focuses on early and growth-stage technology startups, investing across software, cloud, data analytics, mobile technology, consumer services, fintech, security, healthcare, and information technologies. Accel seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to build world-class companies that define new categories and drive growth. Its portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Braintree, and Lookout Security, among others.
Founded in 1969, F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It invests globally in technology and healthcare sectors, supporting entrepreneurs with its extensive domain expertise and relationships.
Founded in Tokyo in 1998, Global Brain is a venture capital firm focusing on seed to late-stage investments across various sectors globally. They have invested in over 300 startups, facilitating 25 IPOs and 61 M&As through hands-on support services.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in seed, early, and growth-stage companies across technology, energy, financial services, healthcare, internet, mobile, outsourcing, manufacturing, media, and retail sectors. The firm seeks ambitious founders and aims to help them build long-lasting, scalable businesses, often taking the lead or significant co-investor roles and providing strategic guidance, networks, and resources. It maintains an international footprint, including investments in India and other regions, reflecting a global approach to partnering with fast-growing companies. Sequoia emphasizes strong teams, innovative products or services, and the potential for rapid growth, positioning itself as a long-term partner for companies that redefine their markets.
Established in 2002 through the merger of three subsidiaries, Mizuho Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm affiliated with Mizuho Bank. With approximately ¥50 billion JPY under management, it focuses on investments in information technology and biotechnology sectors.
Battery Ventures is a technology-focused investment firm founded in 1983 and based in Boston, Massachusetts. It engages in venture capital and private equity investments in technology companies, with emphasis on software (including application and infrastructure software), IT infrastructure technologies, consumer internet and mobile services, industrial technologies, and life science tools. The firm seeks to back category-defining businesses with potential for scalable growth, often supporting companies through multiple stages and across select global regions.
Founded in 2019, Journey Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. It invests in entrepreneurs and startups focused on tourism, travel technology, and hotel industries, offering investment, mentorship, and strategic business partnerships.
Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. Founded in 2012 as part of the Banco Português de Fomento group, it concentrates on investing in innovative, science- and technology-based companies and in tourism and industrial sectors. The firm targets early-stage funding, including pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, and also engages in expansion investments for small and medium enterprises seeking international growth. Its portfolio spans digital technology, manufacturing, therapeutics, health tech, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, virtual reality and augmented reality, internet of things, and related areas, aiming to stimulate the Portuguese economy and support global scaling. Portugal Ventures emerged from the merger of AICEP Capital Global, InovCapital, and Turismo Capital, consolidating state-backed private equity activity to back startups and scale-ups in Portugal.
Tiger Global Management is a New York based investment firm that manages public and private market strategies to pursue technology-driven growth opportunities worldwide. Founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman, the firm invests in leading global companies across various industries, with a particular emphasis on technology-enabled growth. In public markets it employs long/short and growth strategies, while in private markets it targets opportunities from early to late stage. The firm operates globally, including the United States, China, India, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and works with portfolio companies across their lifecycle to drive long-term value.
Established in 2019, IAN Fund is a venture capital firm based in New Delhi, India. It focuses on seed and early-stage investments across various sectors such as healthcare, software, fintech, big data, artificial intelligence, hardware, and more. The fund aims to provide not only financial backing but also mentoring, strategic inputs, and access to extensive networks.
IDG Capital is a Beijing-based venture and growth-stage investment firm that backs technology-enabled companies across global markets, with a strong emphasis on China and Asia. It invests across seed, early, later, and growth stages and pursues buyouts, with interests spanning information technology, software, consumer products and services, healthcare, energy, SaaS, mobile, TMT, and advanced manufacturing. The firm leverages a worldwide network of limited partners, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutional investors, and philanthropic and educational endowments, to support portfolio companies. With deep local market knowledge and extensive relationships with business leaders, IDG Capital combines global perspective with local execution to facilitate inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the broader Asian region.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. The firm focuses on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with emphasis on fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, DevOps, and healthcare. Based in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, Insight Partners has backed more than 750 companies worldwide and has more than 55 portfolio companies that have achieved an IPO. As of 2022, the firm reports over $75 billion in assets under management. It seeks to fund and work closely with visionary executives, providing practical, hands-on software expertise to support growth from initial investment through to IPO.
OakNorth Bank is a UK-based digital-first commercial bank that provides debt financing and related services to growth-oriented businesses. It targets the Missing Middle, established SMEs underserved by traditional banks, offering bespoke secured and unsecured loans, property funding, and related financial solutions, alongside savings products for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, the bank uses data-led analytics and forward-looking scenario analysis to assess risk and support scalable growth through cycles. Its client base includes property developers, care homes, schools, hotels, and other growth ventures, with lending supported by long-term partnerships rather than equity. The bank emphasizes a relationship-driven approach, with a sizable share of new lending generated through referrals and repeat borrowers.
Mumbai Angels is an early-stage venture capital firm and angel investment network based in Mumbai, India. Founded in 2006, it serves as a platform for startups to connect with larger corporations and financial investors, helping incubated ventures grow and scale.
Sequoia Capital Israel is a venture capital firm that backs startups and growth companies across seed to late-stage rounds, with a focus on Israel. It invests across sectors including fintech, financial services, internet, mobile, technology, and healthcare, spanning banking, payments, advertising, ecommerce, data, security, software, and related enabling tech. Typical commitments range from 100,000 to 1 million in seed, 1 to 10 million in early venture, and 10 to 100 million in growth rounds. The firm is based in Tel Aviv and operates as part of Sequoia Capital's global network.
Founded in 2021, Rockaway Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Prague, Czech Republic. It focuses on investing in startups across Central and Eastern Europe and the DACH region that are digitalizing traditional industries while adhering to ESG principles.
NUMA Group is a Berlin-based European operator of a fully digitized hospitality platform that provides modern, design-focused accommodations and acts as a reliable partner for investors, owners, and developers. The company uses proprietary technology-based operator solutions that largely automate operational processes and improve cost efficiencies and revenues. NUMA operates more than 8,000 units across major European cities, including Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Oslo, Prague, and Vienna. The platform offers features such as electronic check-in, configured apartments with kitchen and workspace, professional housekeeping, and locally curated recommendations, enabling travelers to have an authentic experience and an alternative to boutique hotels and managed short-stay flats.
Established in 2011 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain, Faraday Venture Partners is a private investment club that specializes in analyzing innovative startup projects requiring private financing. The company offers exclusive investment opportunities to its partners, along with active management and assessment of investments.
Enlightened Hospitality Investments is the strategic investment platform of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), focused on accelerating growth for values-aligned companies in the hospitality and technology sectors. Based in New York, it leverages USHG’s operations and network to identify and pursue growth opportunities in both internal and external ventures, aligning initiatives with the group’s standards and technology-enabled strategies.
True Global Ventures is an international early-stage investment firm founded by Dušan Stojanović, recognized as a leading angel investor in Europe. The firm comprises a network of successful technology entrepreneurs with extensive experience and a strong track record in startup operations and investments. True Global Ventures focuses on investing between $100,000 and $600,000 in early-stage companies led by serial entrepreneurs, particularly in the fields of Internet, software, and mobile applications. The firm offers more than just financial support; it specializes in five key areas: customer and partner acquisition, international expansion, refinancing through connections with traditional venture capitalists and other financial entities, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, and recruitment, especially for engineering talent. True Global Ventures primarily targets companies based in major global tech hubs, including Silicon Valley, New York, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, while excluding investments in hardware, cleantech, and medtech sectors.
Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited (FIL). It targets technology-enabled companies across stages from early venture to growth and late-stage, with a focus on healthcare IT, information technology, software and services, fintech, consumer and enterprise technology, telecommunications, and related sectors. It operates internationally with offices in Europe (London) and Asia (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Mumbai, Bengaluru) and partnerships in Israel, Singapore, and the United States, reflecting a broad geographic scope. It typically invests between modest seven-figures to tens of millions of dollars, seeks to lead or co-lead and often takes a board seat, supporting portfolio companies with strategic and operational expertise. The firm emphasizes long-standing partnerships and a hands-on approach, backed by FIL’s resources.
Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally. It focuses on backing exceptional founders from day one, offering a global community network of co-founders, talent, advisors, expansion support, and capital across various sectors such as technology, healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and more.
Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor group in the United States, with over 300 members across five networks in Southern California. Specializing in funding and guiding early-stage, high-growth companies, TCA invests in various industries such as life sciences, biotech, IT, services, retail, Internet, financial, software, media, and consumer products. Beyond capital, TCA offers mentorship, networking opportunities, and access to potential investors and partners. Ranked among the top angel groups in the US by CB Insights, Tech Coast Angels is known for its extensive connections and support for game-changing businesses in need of financial backing and strategic guidance.
Acrew Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, with an additional office in Palo Alto, California. It funds technology companies across seed to growth stages, focusing on data and security, fintech, health, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, and information technology, as well as infrastructure, financial services, and workplace technologies. The firm typically makes equity investments ranging from about $1 million to $15 million, often as lead or co-investor, and seeks to build long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs while diversifying perspectives and cap tables in its portfolio. The firm aims to support transformative technology companies and accelerate growth through capital and strategic guidance.
Headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally, Citi Ventures explores, incubates, and invests in innovative ideas across fintech, data analytics, commerce, security, marketing, property tech, distributed ledger technology, and digital assets. It collaborates with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation community to drive discovery of new value.
4G Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm specializes in a variety of sectors, including real estate, restaurants, event venues, and hotels. It focuses on providing vacation rentals, community projects, and development services, aiming to create a diverse portfolio of businesses and investments. Through its multifaceted approach, 4G Ventures seeks to foster growth and innovation across its various ventures.
Established in 2023, Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm serving as the investment arm of Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority. It focuses on early-stage investments in sectors such as fintech, edtech, digital health, logistics, future of work, impact investing, AI/ML, consumer products & services, and e-commerce within the United Arab Emirates.
Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.
Established in 2019, Silicon Gardens is a venture capital firm based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It focuses on investing in innovative and technology-driven companies.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.
Enlight Growth Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Shanghai, China, founded in 2017 by Perry Chui. The firm concentrates on early-growth stage opportunities in the Greater China region, with a focus on B2B companies operating in the supply chain, cloud, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things sectors. It emphasizes a rigorous due diligence process and value-driven investment approach, aiming to support outstanding Chinese entrepreneurs and generate long-term value for investors. The team leverages a China-centered network and sector knowledge to help portfolio companies scale.
Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.
Founded in 2014, Expert DOJO is a venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California. It specializes in early-stage startup acceleration and investment, focusing on visionary companies with high growth potential. Since its inception, it has invested in over 260 startups globally, providing an average of $50,000 initially, with follow-on investments up to $1 million for exceptional performers.
1Crowd is an equity crowdfunding platform based in Mumbai, India, dedicated to connecting investors with promising Indian start-ups and early-stage ventures. Established in 2015, the platform offers a comprehensive range of services that include capital raising support, business plan development, financial modeling guidance, proposal screening, due diligence, and post-investment monitoring. In addition to helping start-ups secure funding, 1Crowd provides access to a network of experienced mentors and partners who assist in nurturing business growth. The platform distinguishes itself by co-investing in the companies that raise capital through its services, further aligning its interests with those of the entrepreneurs. As part of its commitment to fostering innovation, 1Crowd is also developing a suite of exclusive capital solutions tailored for start-ups and investors.
Established in 2014, Lead Angels is India's first angel network dedicated to supporting startups founded by alumni of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The network comprises successful entrepreneurs who provide both capital and mentorship to early-stage companies across various sectors, with a focus on disruptive technologies.
Established in 2007, The Chennai Angels is a group of successful entrepreneurs who invest in early-stage companies across various sectors, with a focus on ventures based out of South India. They typically invest between INR50 Lakh to INR3 Crore, and besides providing capital, they offer mentorship and help entrepreneurs navigate the fundraising lifecycle.
Founded in 2018, Arches Capital is a group of business angels based in Amsterdam. They invest in early-stage companies across sectors such as FinTech, Data Science, E-commerce, Cybersecurity, MedTech, and Software. The firm differentiates itself by providing not just capital but also active engagement, knowledge sharing, and follow-on investment support to accelerate growth.
Founded in 2015, FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on stage-agnostic investments in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investment range varies from $50,000 to $5,000,000, typically at seed or series A stages.
Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm that funds seed and early-stage technology startups globally, with a strong focus on Europe and France. The firm typically participates in rounds from seed to Series A, often as a lead investor, and aims to be a significant minority shareholder while co-investing with angels and other funds. It supports portfolio companies with a network of founders and experts to accelerate growth, speed fundraising, and help teams scale. Kima emphasizes rapid decision-making and founder-aligned support, viewing fundraising as one step in a broader journey. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Paris and maintains an office in London, reflecting its European reach and global activity, and it has backed hundreds of startups across multiple countries.
Established in 2017 and headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, Net Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth capital investments. It focuses on transformative and disruptive technologies sectors.
Founded in Luxembourg in 2006, Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on digital businesses, including internet, e-commerce, and media companies, with global investment scope.
Redalpine is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2006 that blends financial investment, operational expertise, and an extensive international network to help entrepreneurs turn their vision into reality. With offices in Zurich and Berlin and a presence in London and San Francisco, it backs software and science companies across Europe from early stages onward, managing over 1 billion in assets. The firm supports a broad portfolio of disruptive startups, including N26, Taxfix, Inkitt, 9fin, Carvolution, vivenu, and Infinite Roots, through hands-on guidance and strategic connections across its network. It focuses on Europe-wide investments in information technology, healthcare, fintech, and related sectors, aiming to drive value creation through active involvement with portfolio companies.
Founded in 2001, ScOp Venture Capital is a Santa Barbara-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage companies. It invests primarily in software, SaaS, AI, and e-commerce sectors across the U.S., seeking scalable opportunities that meet fundamental consumer or business needs. The firm partners with passionate founders, taking a long-term perspective and aiming for profound impact.
Established in 2002, The FSE Group is a venture capital firm based in Hampshire, UK. It focuses on investing in early-stage and growth-stage startups operating within the renewable energy and social enterprise sectors.
Calculus Capital is a London-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on established and mature small and medium-sized UK companies. It targets growth and expansion investments, management buyouts or buy-ins, acquisitions, and financing for generational change, as well as pre-IPO finance and growth capital across various sectors including media, energy, software and services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. The firm typically invests between £2 million and £5 million in companies with positive EBITDA and annual sales of up to £50 million, and it commonly takes a board seat. Investments are generally held for about four to five years. Founded in 1999, Calculus Capital operates from London and concentrates on United Kingdom-based opportunities rather than startups or overseas ventures.
TiVenture is a venture capital firm based in Lugano, Switzerland, founded in 2012. It focuses on seed investments in early-stage companies that demonstrate innovative technologies and significant growth potential, particularly in southern Switzerland. The firm actively seeks to support exceptional founders and entrepreneurs who are developing scalable products aimed at the global market. TiVenture maintains a diversified portfolio, primarily investing in the life science, medical, high-tech, and IT sectors.
Founded in 2011, Slow Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm. It invests in innovative companies operating at the intersection of technology, science, society, and culture across various sectors such as software, biotechnology, e-commerce, fintech, and more.
Founded in 2018, Inflection Point Ventures is an angel investment network based in Gurgaon, India. It supports early-to-mid stage startups by providing capital and leveraging its extensive network of investors to offer market access, guidance, and mentorship.