Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and based in Menlo Park, California. It funds startups across the entire lifecycle, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm backs companies in software, cloud infrastructure, digital platforms, data storage, and mobile and Internet services, as well as sectors at the intersection of technology with life sciences, such as bio healthcare and computational medicine. Its investments span artificial intelligence, fintech, consumer and enterprise software, crypto and blockchain, cybersecurity, and related infrastructure. Through strategic guidance and a hands-on approach, the firm aims to help portfolio companies scale and innovate.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.

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.

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.

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.

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology and consumer startups from seed through growth stages. It focuses on information technology, software, digital media and advertising, e-commerce, data analytics, fintech, cloud, mobile, and AI, as well as related infrastructure, hardware, and robotics. The firm primarily targets companies in the Pacific Northwest and the broader West Coast, and often leads investments with a goal of taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale from early development to market leadership.

Founded in 1995, SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in New Jersey. It focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments in deep tech innovations, primarily in bio-tech/life sciences and hardware/robotics sectors, with a commitment to human and planetary health.

New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 and based in Menlo Park, California, with offices in the United States, India and China. It makes investments across technology and healthcare startups at multiple stages, from seed to growth, including software, cloud, data, internet services, fintech, AI, e-commerce, and enterprise technology, as well as healthcare information technology, life sciences, medical devices, and biopharma. It also considers energy technology and infrastructure opportunities, such as solar, batteries and smart grids. The firm pursues a global approach, with activity in the United States, Asia and other regions, and supports companies through rounds of financing ranging from small to sizable investments as they scale. NEA focuses on building portfolios in software, IT services, consumer technology, and healthcare technology, backing ambitious entrepreneurs across sectors and geographies.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development finances projects and provides advisory services to the public and private sectors. It supports new ventures and expansion in existing companies through project financing, loans, and equity or quasi-equity investments, including equity funds and guarantees, and it partners with private entities to invest across sectors such as banking, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, information technology, and services. The bank also helps publicly owned entities privatize and restructure municipal services and engages in policy reform dialogue and advisory services, along with trade finance and loan syndication. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in London, it operates across regions including Southeastern and Central Europe, the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and parts of the Middle East and Africa, aiming to foster market-oriented change and private sector development by mobilizing capital for sustainable investments. It has invested more than €130 billion in over 5,200 projects.

Founded in 1972, Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It specializes in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies across various sectors including technology, healthcare, life sciences, and consumer goods. The firm partners with founders from inception to IPO, supporting them to maximize the potential of their ideas.

Mayfield Fund is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 1969 and headquartered in Menlo Park, with an additional office in Mumbai. It focuses on early-stage to growth investments in technology companies across sectors including enterprise software, data infrastructure, semiconductors, communications, artificial intelligence, consumer technology, health and wellness, energy tech, and related services. The firm pursues global opportunities, with emphasis on California—especially the San Francisco and San Jose area—and cross-border investments in Europe, India and China, including companies with substantial operations in India or China. Typical investments range from about $1 million to $15 million, with follow-on rounds and the potential for debt investments around $1 million. Mayfield often leads rounds or co-invests with other investors and helps assemble syndicates to support portfolio companies.

Founded in 1999, Redpoint is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It partners with visionary founders to create new markets and invests across seed, early, and growth phases of startups. The firm manages over $4 billion across multiple funds, focusing on technology, media, and alternative energy companies.

NFX is a venture capital firm founded in 2014, based in San Francisco. It invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across various sectors including software, fintech, bio, gaming, AI, space, proptech, marketplaces, and cryptocurrency. NFX operates as a transformative investor focused on improving the startup experience for founders, leveraging its entrepreneurial background to support fearless innovators.

Founded in 2019, Uncorrelated Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It focuses on investing in early-stage infrastructure software companies.

Robot Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage fintech and blockchain companies, including those in cryptocurrency. It supports founders with ambitious visions and contrarian perspectives, seeking teams that challenge conventional thinking. Founded in 2019, the firm focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage investments, providing capital and guidance to navigate rapidly evolving financial technologies. Robot Ventures targets ventures at the intersection of finance and digital assets with the potential to transform payment systems, capital markets, and related services.

Founded in 2015, Liquid 2 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in seed-stage investments for technology startups.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

MH Ventures, established in 2021 and headquartered in London, UK, is an early-stage venture fund focused on supporting founders within the Web3 ecosystem.

Samsung NEXT is an innovation group within Samsung Electronics that focuses on identifying and pursuing new growth opportunities. Through Samsung NEXT Ventures, it acts as the company’s venture capital arm, investing in early-stage startups and technologies with potential to redefine multiple industries. The group targets areas including artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, media technology, software, and related fields such as robotics and drones. By combining internal startup acceleration with external investments, Samsung NEXT aims to accelerate technology adoption and create scalable platforms that complement Samsung’s hardware and software ecosystems.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage, pre-seed technology startups in underserved segments of the ecosystem. It invests in a high-volume, capital-efficient portfolio, typically funding rounds of 50,000 to 500,000 and making roughly 75 to 100 investments per year. The firm targets opportunities across the United States and internationally, including Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, prioritizing companies with scalable products and prudent capital use outside major metro hubs. Since its inception, it has built a broad portfolio across many states. It commits to a fast decision process, often delivering a yes or no within two weeks to help founders establish momentum.

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.

Glilot Capital Partners is an Israel-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein. It concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in technology companies, with a focus on security, cybersecurity, enterprise software, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data, software-as-a-service, information technology, internet of things, and fintech. The firm primarily backs startups based in Israel and tends to invest several million dollars per opportunity, offering flexible funding by leading or co-investing in rounds and using convertible notes. Headquartered in Herzliya Pituach, Glilot Capital Partners supports portfolio companies with hands-on guidance, leveraging its industry network to help early-stage businesses scale and reach growth milestones.

Outlier Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm and accelerator focused on Web3 and blockchain technology. Founded in 2014, it was among the first to invest in the crypto ecosystem and supports early-stage startups across DeFi, NFTs, infrastructure and metaverse use cases. The firm runs Base Camp, an accelerator launched in 2019 that provides launchpad support and incubation space for pre-seed projects. Through its investments and accelerator activities, Outlier Ventures has supported more than 220 portfolio companies and helped raise over $350 million in seed funding. It maintains a blockchain-agnostic approach and collaborates with leading ecosystems, including Aptos, Filecoin/IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot, to host dedicated accelerator tracks. The firm aims to accelerate the development of Web3 technologies and the Open Metaverse by backing global projects and fostering interoperable infrastructures.

National Grid Partners (NGP) is the investment arm of National Grid, focusing on investing in and developing innovative technologies and business models in the energy sector. With a mission to drive the future of energy, NGP seeks out opportunities to collaborate with startups and entrepreneurs to transform the industry and create sustainable solutions for a cleaner, more efficient energy system. By leveraging their expertise and resources, NGP aims to support and accelerate the growth of innovative companies that are shaping the future of energy.

Cisco Investments is the corporate venture arm of Cisco Systems, based in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Moscow. It invests in technology companies across stages, from startups to growth and pre-IPO rounds, with a broad sector focus that includes cloud, data center networking, Internet of Things and Internet of Everything, security, storage, silicon and optics, analytics, SaaS, and related applications and infrastructure. The firm pursues global opportunities, including in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, China and Russia, and typically takes minority stakes in its portfolio companies, often ranging from smaller seed investments to tens of millions of dollars. Cisco Investments leverages deep market and technology expertise to help portfolio companies reach outcomes such as IPOs or acquisitions, supported by a sizable team of investment professionals and an active, multinational portfolio.

Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology startups. With over $3 billion under management, they focus on seed and Series A financing across sectors like commerce, consumer, hardware, health, and infrastructure technologies.

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.

Threshold Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It pursues a high-conviction, early-stage investment strategy and partners with entrepreneurs to build technology-driven companies in consumer, enterprise, and healthcare sectors. The firm provides venture and growth capital to technology companies and has historical ties to the broader Draper Fisher Jurvetson network. Threshold focuses on supporting early-stage ventures across software, consumer, and healthcare technologies, and seeks to back innovative teams aiming to reach market leadership.

Borderless Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2018 that concentrates on early-stage investments in Web3 and infrastructure companies. The firm seeks opportunities aligned with the Algorand ecosystem, including projects that leverage Algorand 2.0 features and Algorand Standard Assets, as well as infrastructure initiatives supporting Algorand. It partners with founders to accelerate access, bootstrap adoption, and create value across Algorand and EdgeFi ecosystems.

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund is a public-private partnership that mobilizes capital from both public and private sources to lend to infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides long-term debt and mezzanine financing on commercial terms to infrastructure developments, with funding directed primarily to projects owned, managed, and operated by private sector businesses. The fund concentrates on building and upgrading infrastructure across the region, including in fragile states where traditional lenders are often reluctant to deploy capital. Based in Ebene, Mauritius, the entity is managed and advised by Investec Asset Management, aligning capital providers with private sector-led infrastructure development.

Founded in 2021, Big Brain Holdings is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies operating in the blockchain, fintech, and web3 sectors.

Founded in 2015, Soma Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco. It focuses on investing seed capital in early-stage software startups globally, with a notable track record including investments in companies now valued at over $60 billion combined.

Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. As a global corporate venture capital fund, it invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on mobile and adjacent industries. With over $4 billion under management, Qualcomm Ventures has invested in more than 350 companies across 15 countries.

IQT focuses on advancing innovative technology solutions tailored for the intelligence and defense sectors. By fostering the development of cutting-edge tools, IQT aims to enhance the capabilities of these communities in their efforts to ensure national security. The organization plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between emerging technologies and their practical applications within government agencies, ultimately contributing to the safety and protection of the nation.

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.

Menlo Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 1976 that provides capital to consumer and technology companies across the United States. It funds seed through growth-stage ventures in sectors including computer hardware, software, big data, fintech, and healthcare, as well as related areas such as life sciences technology and smart cloud infrastructure. Based in San Francisco, the firm pursues a market-driven approach to identify opportunities and supports portfolio companies through multiple stages of development. Menlo Ventures emphasizes backing capital-efficient businesses with potential to disrupt large markets and maintains an active role in the companies it supports, alongside a track record of notable investments in diverse technology and consumer sectors. The firm seeks opportunities in early and growth-stage companies across the technology spectrum and strives to partner with teams delivering innovative products and services.

NGP Capital is a California-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage B2B technology companies. Formerly Nokia Growth Partners, it operates globally from Palo Alto and backs companies from Series A onward, with investments across Europe, Israel, and the United States. The firm follows a thesis-driven approach and targets sectors including enterprise software, industrial technology, cybersecurity, and data infrastructure, aiming to support scale and digital transformation. Over its history, NGP Capital has backed a diverse portfolio of companies, including several unicorns and IPOs.

Founded in 2018, Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It focuses on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto investments using data science and artificial intelligence. The team consists of investors, engineers, and scientists who use these tools to model venture-backed private companies, measure quantitative product-market fit, and provide deep insights to accelerate sustainable growth.

Waterdrip Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2017 and headquartered in Shanghai, China. The firm specializes in investments within the blockchain industry, focusing on innovative projects and companies that leverage blockchain technology. Waterdrip Capital aims to support the growth and development of the blockchain ecosystem by providing financial backing and guidance to promising ventures in this sector.

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.

Subhkam Ventures, established in 1999 by Rakesh S. Kathotia in Mumbai, India, operates as a family office specializing in private equity, venture capital, and public market investments. With over 20 years of experience in financial services and capital markets, Subhkam focuses on investment opportunities in midsized companies, offering growth capital and, in select cases, initial-stage funding. The firm aims to identify and capitalize on robust investment prospects that promise substantial medium to long-term capital appreciation. In addition to providing financial resources, Subhkam actively supports its investee companies in realizing their potential through strong partnerships. Its investment portfolio spans a diverse array of industries, including infrastructure, biotechnology, financial services, aerospace, telecom, real estate, tourism, waste management, and healthcare.

Founded in Singapore in 2018, Blockchain Founders Fund is a venture capital firm investing globally in early-stage blockchain startups. It offers a Venture Program to aid entrepreneurs across key business functions for accelerated growth.

Binance Labs is the venture arm and incubator of Binance, focusing on startup and social impact investments in blockchain technologies and Web3. It funds ventures across public blockchains, decentralized exchanges, wallets and payments, stable digital currencies, security token platforms, fintech, and dApps, and seeks opportunities in emerging markets such as India.

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation is the corporate venture arm of Samsung Electronics, founded in 1999 and based in Seoul. It maintains a global presence with activity in innovation hubs such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Tokyo, and Beijing, and it backs emerging technology startups across Europe, Asia, and North America. The firm sources and invests in technology companies at multiple stages, from early-stage to pre-IPO, focusing on areas including semiconductors, materials, mobile services, internet, software, security, and enterprise solutions, as well as bioengineering and medical tech. Its investment approach targets companies developing AI, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, cybersecurity, 5G, next generation displays, battery technology, digital health, and insurtech, among others, to support shaping future technologies.

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.

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.

Matrix Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 and based in San Francisco that backs early-stage and Series A technology companies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, B2B software, consumer technology, fintech, health tech, infrastructure, and semiconductors. The firm emphasizes practical, founder-centered collaboration, often supporting concepts from idea stage through Series A and taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale. It operates globally, including Matrix Partners China, which focuses on long-term relationships with entrepreneurs in China and has a track record of IPOs and strategic exits. The team combines former founders and experienced investors to bring local execution and global perspective. Notable investments span across the technology landscape, reflecting a history of involvement with companies like FedEx, Apple, Oculus, Canva, Zendesk, HubSpot, Postmates, Fivetran, Sila, and GOAT, illustrating the firm’s ability to support companies from early development to scale.

Founded in 2000, Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York and Silicon Valley. It manages over $5 billion in assets, focusing on seed to growth investments at the intersection of technology and sciences. Lux actively supports entrepreneurs building successful businesses in high-growth sectors such as biochemistry, material science, electronics, infrastructure, aerospace, genomics, synthetic biology, and robotics.

Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.

Founded in Abu Dhabi in 2008, Mubadala Technology is a principal investment firm focusing on advanced technology sectors, with a primary focus on the semiconductor industry. It invests globally, including Abu Dhabi, Europe, the United States, and Asia.