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Antler

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.
Made 30 investments in Messaging

Bossa Invest

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.
Made 49 investments in Messaging

Goodwater Capital

Founded in 2014, Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California. It invests in early-stage consumer technology companies, empowering exceptional entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems and create global impact.
Made 29 investments in Messaging

Right Side Capital Management

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.
Made 46 investments in Messaging

Sequoia Capital

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.
Made 55 investments in Messaging

Alumni Ventures Group

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.
Made 30 investments in Messaging

Tiger Global Management

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.
Made 26 investments in Messaging

Sequoia Capital Israel

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.
Made 28 investments in Messaging

Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It provides capital and strategic guidance to startups across stages, focusing on technology-driven companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate and sustainability, enterprise software and services, fintech, digital health, medical technology and diagnostics, therapeutics, consumer products, and frontier technologies. The firm backs bold ventures with the potential to disrupt markets and improve lives, supporting companies from early to growth stages and working closely with entrepreneurs to apply science, technology and innovative business models. While primarily investing in North American technology companies, Khosla Ventures pursues opportunities globally and emphasizes experimentation and impact alongside financial returns. The firm also maintains related impact initiatives that support entrepreneurs addressing socio-economic challenges in emerging markets.
Made 21 investments in Messaging

New Enterprise Associates

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.
Made 44 investments in Messaging

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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.
Made 31 investments in Messaging

NextView Ventures

Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2010, NextView Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on seed and start-up companies, particularly those in the fintech sector. The firm invests in various industries including health, food and beverage, apparel, transportation, media and entertainment, ecommerce, B2B, software, consumer technology, and internet businesses. NextView Ventures prefers to make initial investments between $0.25 million and $0.5 million, with a focus on companies based in the United States East coast, particularly Boston and New York.
Made 22 investments in Messaging

General Catalyst

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.
Made 36 investments in Messaging

Greylock Partners

Founded in 1965, Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise software companies. It focuses on seed to growth-stage investments, with notable portfolio companies including Airbnb, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Palo Alto Networks.
Made 35 investments in Messaging

Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in London with offices in San Francisco and Geneva, focused on backing technology-driven startups across Europe, North America, and beyond. The firm specializes in high technology and life sciences, and invests across early and growth stages in sectors such as artificial intelligence, software, data, fintech, healthcare, media, mobility, open source, and security. Since its founding in 1996, Index Ventures has partnered with ambitious entrepreneurs to turn bold ideas into global businesses, providing strategic guidance and capital to help companies scale. Notable portfolio companies include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell, reflecting the firm’s track record of supporting market-changing technology companies.
Made 33 investments in Messaging

Accel

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.
Made 33 investments in Messaging

FJ Labs

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.
Made 22 investments in Messaging

SV Angel

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.
Made 49 investments in Messaging

Bessemer Venture Partners

Founded in 1911, Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. With over $4 billion under management, the firm invests globally across various sectors including artificial intelligence & machine learning, biotech, cloud, consumer, cybersecurity, deep tech, developer, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, and vertical software. Known for its long-standing support of entrepreneurs, Bessemer has backed companies such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, and Linkedin.
Made 30 investments in Messaging

Benchmark

Benchmark is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology companies from seed through growth stages. The firm focuses on software and services, mobile and social platforms, marketplaces, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence, with investments in the United States (notably the West Coast and New York), Europe, and Israel. Benchmark takes a hands-on, founder-friendly approach, often taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale and secure follow-on financing. It has a track record of backing industry leaders and notable exits, reflecting its emphasis on transformational technology companies.
Made 26 investments in Messaging

Atlantic Labs

Founded in Berlin in 2013, Atlantic Labs is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. They support ambitious founders across various sectors, with a recent focus on decarbonization, artificial intelligence, and industrial automation.
Made 17 investments in Messaging

Insight Partners

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.
Made 16 investments in Messaging

Andreessen Horowitz

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.
Made 19 investments in Messaging

Prosus Ventures

Prosus Ventures is a global venture capital firm founded in 2015. Based in Amsterdam, it invests in early-stage technology startups across sectors such as e-commerce, mobility, fintech, AI, and sustainability. The firm focuses on identifying high-potential companies with global ambitions and provides tailored support to help them become market leaders.
Made 6 investments in Messaging

Hard Yaka

Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada, founded in 2010. It pursues technology investments across private equity and venture capital, including buyouts and distressed opportunities, and it frequently seeks majority stakes. The firm focuses on digital transformation infrastructure, including portable identity, payments, marketplaces, and regtech, and also backs early-stage opportunities in exchange space startups, targeting verticals within exchange markets as well as horizontals such as messaging and payments across exchange sectors.
Made 3 investments in Messaging

SOSV

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.
Made 27 investments in Messaging

ENIAC Ventures

ENIAC Ventures is an independent seed and early-stage technology focused venture capital firm based in New York, with activity across North America and Western Europe. It leads seed rounds and invests in software, mobile, artificial intelligence, fintech, enterprise, consumer, healthcare, and other transformative technologies, partnering with bold founders to help them bring products to market and pursue follow-on rounds. The firm combines capital with a hands-on platform that provides talent recruitment, public relations and marketing support, operations resources, business development and networking opportunities, and fundraising guidance and syndicate building. The team emphasizes a collaborative approach, acting as a founding partner to portfolio companies and leveraging its network to open doors and accelerate growth.
Made 20 investments in Messaging

Slow Ventures

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.
Made 28 investments in Messaging

Liquid 2 Ventures

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.
Made 17 investments in Messaging

Endeavor

Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global non-profit organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. With operations in nearly 40 countries, Endeavor's network comprises over 2,000 entrepreneurs who have created more than 3.9 million jobs and generated revenues exceeding $28 billion.
Made 7 investments in Messaging

Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, construction technology, education technology, fintech, agriculture technology, advertising technology, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, legal technology, oncology, pet technology, real estate technology, ride-hailing, SaaS and supply chain technology. The firm benefits from a network of more than 420 Y Combinator alumni, enabling it to identify and support YC-backed startups.
Made 10 investments in Messaging

Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 with roots in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in New York. The firm is built by entrepreneurs who have founded and exited technology companies, and it aims to back founders by providing practical capital and guidance to navigate the risks of venture funding. It concentrates on early investments in technology companies, with an emphasis on software and information technology, and it makes bets across the United States and beyond, though its roots are on the East Coast. The team partners with portfolio companies to help them scale, often supporting startups that seek modest initial financings. Through its network and hands-on approach, Founder Collective seeks to partner with ambitious teams to grow durable, technology-driven businesses.
Made 16 investments in Messaging

True Ventures

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.
Made 25 investments in Messaging

IVP

IVP is a late-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, investing in information technology and other growth-stage technology companies in North America. With a 40-year history, IVP has partnered with numerous breakout companies to achieve sustainable scale and public offerings, and its portfolio includes notable firms such as Amplitude, Brex, Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Discord, Klarna, Slack, Snap, and Twitter. The firm focuses on guiding founders through growth, product, and go-to-market challenges, serving as a strategic partner to help portfolio companies reach their full potential.
Made 26 investments in Messaging

Greycroft

Founded in 2006, Greycroft is a venture capital firm based in New York and Los Angeles. With over $1 billion under management, it focuses on early-stage investments in consumer internet, financial technology, healthcare, and enterprise software sectors across the United States. The firm leverages its extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and bring products to market.
Made 22 investments in Messaging

Betaworks

Betaworks is a New York-based startup studio, accelerator, and ecosystem builder that creates, funds, and scales technology companies. Founded in 2008, it operates an accelerator program and supports early-stage ventures across information technology, software as a service, gaming, e-sports, and frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual and augmented reality. Betaworks also runs Betaworks Studios, a New York City membership space that enables collaboration, mentorship, events, work sessions, and company-building activity within its network. Through Betaworks Ventures, the firm maintains a product-focused seed investment arm with a presence in New York and San Francisco, having invested in more than 150 companies.
Made 27 investments in Messaging

First Round Capital

First Round Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that concentrates on seed- and early-stage investments, often supporting pre-revenue startups across sectors including enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, consumer, hardware, artificial intelligence, and web3. The firm emphasizes a community-driven approach, providing founder-focused services, mentorship, and access to a broad founder network to help companies grow. It operates nationally with offices in San Francisco and New York and seeks to take an active role in portfolio companies to aid scaling and access to follow-on funding.
Made 31 investments in Messaging

GGV Capital

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across various stages and sectors. Established in 2000, the firm has offices in Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Beijing, providing expansion capital ranging from $5 to $25 million for initial investments. GGV Capital focuses on companies operating in the U.S., China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, Europe, and Israel.
Made 16 investments in Messaging

Speedinvest

Speedinvest is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, with offices in Berlin, Paris, London, Munich, and San Francisco, that focuses on early-stage technology investments across Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe. The firm backs seed to early growth rounds in areas including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, consumer tech, software-as-a-service, and network effects, with a platform philosophy and hands-on support via an in-house Platform+ team that provides growth marketing, human resources, US business development, and networking assistance from day one. Typical investments range from a few hundred thousand euros up to about three million euros, with a preference for minority stakes up to around 20% and for taking co-entrepreneurial operational roles for six months to a year. Speedinvest was founded in 2011 and is known for combining capital with hands-on operational support to help portfolio companies scale.
Made 8 investments in Messaging

Alchemist Accelerator

Founded in 2012, Alchemist Accelerator is a San Francisco-based startup accelerator focused on seed-stage ventures that generate revenue from enterprises. It invests up to $40,000 and provides a six-month program offering mentorship, structured path to traction, fundraising, and community support for around 75 enterprise-focused startups annually.
Made 17 investments in Messaging

Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands is a venture capital firm focused on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It leverages gamification and blockchain technology to develop, market, and invest in mobile applications, games, and additional products centered around educational learning, ensuring transparency, security, and new business models.
Made 4 investments in Messaging

East Ventures

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009, headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Singapore and Indonesia. It operates as a sector-agnostic investor, providing multi-stage capital from seed to growth for technology startups across Southeast Asia. The firm has backed more than 300 companies in the region, including notable names such as Tokopedia, Traveloka, Ruangguru, and Xendit, and focuses on early-stage technology companies to drive regional growth. East Ventures emphasizes active involvement in the Indonesian and broader Southeast Asian ecosystems and is recognized for its long-standing commitment to responsible investing, having signed the Principles for Responsible Investment. The firm combines investment with guidance and ESG-aligned practices to support sustainable development of the regional tech sector.
Made 12 investments in Messaging

Seedcamp

Seedcamp is a London-based venture capital firm and seed platform that backs early-stage startups across Europe and globally, with a focus on fintech, healthcare and technology. It identifies world-class founders addressing large, global markets and provides immediate access to smart capital, mentorship, and a lifelong, global community built on more than a decade of experience backing exceptional talent. Through its broad network of partners and mentors, Seedcamp helps portfolio companies scale, access strategic resources, and navigate early growth, with a geographic reach that spans North America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Made 10 investments in Messaging

Lerer Hippeau

Lerer Hippeau is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in New York City, founded in 2010. It invests early in a wide range of sectors and provides hands-on support to founders as they build companies, drawing on operating experience. The firm has backed a broad portfolio across consumer and enterprise startups, including Allbirds, Guideline, MIRROR, K Health, ZenBusiness, Thrive, and Blockdaemon.
Made 27 investments in Messaging

CRV

Founded in 1970, CRV is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. With nearly $1.5 billion under management, the firm focuses on seed to series B investments in technology, consumer goods, and healthcare companies across North America.
Made 21 investments in Messaging

IDG Capital

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.
Made 27 investments in Messaging

Gaingels

Founded in 2014, Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community. It invests globally in companies led by LGBT+ founders or C-suite executives at all stages of growth, focusing on inclusivity and positive social change.
Made 12 investments in Messaging

Kleiner Perkins

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.
Made 35 investments in Messaging

Wayra UK

Wayra UK is the corporate venture arm and accelerator of Wayra, the global open-innovation program of Telefónica. It runs accelerator programs for early-stage technology startups across industries including health care, information technology, cybersecurity, smart transport and smart city, and 5G, providing investment and acceleration support. The unit connects startups with Telefónica’s networks and partners to enable collaboration and scale opportunities, aiming to generate joint business opportunities between innovators and Telefónica. As part of a worldwide network spanning multiple countries, Wayra UK positions itself as a bridge between entrepreneurs and corporate-scale opportunity, facilitating access to capital, mentorship, and business development.
Made 28 investments in Messaging

Gradient Ventures

Founded in 2017, Gradient Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It focuses on investing in seed-stage and early-stage companies operating in the information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning sectors.
Made 7 investments in Messaging