SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.

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.

StartUp Health is a health innovation platform founded in 2011 that supports a global portfolio of health technology companies through a network of entrepreneurs known as Health Transformers. Its mission is to achieve health moonshots by advancing solutions across Access to Care, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, End to Cancer, Women’s Health, Children’s Health, Nutrition and Fitness, Brain Health, Mental Health and Happiness, Addiction, Longevity, and Pandemic Response. The organization oversees more than 330 portfolio companies across six continents and 26 countries, working with leading health systems and investors to accelerate adoption and impact. By connecting entrepreneurs with health systems, researchers, and investors, StartUp Health aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people worldwide and transform healthcare delivery over a multi-decade timeframe.

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.

Goodwater Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame. It focuses on early-stage investments in consumer technology and related sectors, including housing, financial services, software, healthcare, education, and entertainment. The firm seeks to empower exceptional entrepreneurs solving pressing problems and believes consumer technology can reshape culture and the global economy. By backing founders who create products and platforms that consumers love, Goodwater aims to drive significant, scalable impact and improve billions of lives.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. It supports portfolio companies with momentum and mentorship to accelerate growth toward long-term success and typically engages across seed to growth stages, potentially taking minority or majority stakes. The firm targets a broad range of sectors enabled by software and technology, including consumer, enterprise, fintech, crypto, healthcare IT, and related areas, and maintains a multi-region presence with offices in North America and Europe to back companies as they scale globally.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company based in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of electronics and device solutions. Its portfolio spans consumer electronics (mobile devices, televisions, home appliances, cameras), information technology products (PCs, peripherals, printers), semiconductors, memory and storage, and display technologies. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure and related services, and conducts extensive research and development to advance core technologies. With a global footprint across Korea, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of smartphones, memory chips, and displays, and it coordinates significant manufacturing and supply chain activities to support its varied product lines.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across stages. The firm focuses on transformational technologies and has supported early backers of SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb. It pursues a founder-friendly approach that provides significant support with minimal interference, and it invests globally across sectors including software, artificial intelligence, aerospace, energy, healthcare, cybersecurity, biotech, and information technology. The firm targets opportunities from seed to growth stages and emphasizes solving difficult problems through innovative technology.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

HealthTech Capital is a private investor group that funds and mentors healthtech startups at the intersection of healthcare, computing, and mobility. The group aims to foster an ecosystem by connecting clinical providers, venture firms, and other strategic industry players to support healthtech innovation. Founded in 2010 and based in Los Altos Hills, California, it operates as an angel group investing in healthtech startups.

Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that provides funding, mentorship, and a broad network to early-stage startups. It offers investments ranging from 500K to 2 million per startup with incubation support for 18-24 months. Founded in 2016, it has built a large network of 4500+ angel investors across 36 cities in six countries, with co-investments from notable global investors. The organization prioritizes developing the startup ecosystem in Tier II and III cities in India, operating incubation programs in cities such as Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Raipur, Surat, Nagpur, as well as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. It supports seed and Series A rounds, provides strategic guidance and business-lead generation through its network, and helps startups access education and opportunities for investor engagement. More than 10 incubatee companies have raised Series A in recent years, underscoring its role in early-stage investments and incubation leadership.

Gaingels is a venture investment organization focused on LGBTQ+-founded and led companies and their allies, investing across stages from pre-seed to pre-IPO and maintaining a global portfolio. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it operates as a syndicate with more than 130 portfolio companies and around $70 million deployed. The organization supports inclusive leadership by backing ventures that promote diverse C-suite and board representation and actively assists portfolio companies in recruiting diverse executive talent. It also fosters a global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who pursue positive social change through business and successful investments.

Joyance Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups in technology, health tech, consumer, internet, and mobile sectors across North America, Europe, and Asia. Founded in 2012, the firm seeks companies that, through science and technology, cultivate joy and improve how people live, with emphasis on health and consumer applications from pre-seed to Series A.

Felicis Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm that backs founders building iconic, boundary-transcending companies. It focuses on early-stage investments across software, information technology, consumer internet, AI, health, and security, and complements capital with active mentoring and advisory support. The firm pursues global opportunities, maintains a diverse portfolio, and has backed over 120 technology companies, with around 50 exits. It was founded by Aydin Senkut, a former Google executive, and emphasizes reinvention of core markets and frontier technologies.

SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.

Fireside Ventures is a Bengaluru-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer brands and digital startups in India, focusing on consumer products and services across sectors.

Calm/Storm Ventures is a Vienna-based boutique venture capital firm and founder network founded around 2019–2020. It makes early- and growth-stage investments across Europe and the United States, with a focus on digital health, health tech, healthcare, software, AI, fintech, and related sectors. The firm emphasizes health and wellbeing solutions and supports entrepreneurs through lifelong learning, empowering them with unique access to successful founders.

DSG Consumer Partners is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that focuses on identifying and investing in consumer brands in India and Southeast Asia. It typically takes minority equity stakes but will pursue control transactions with the right management team, and provides capital for growth with liquidity options via secondary exits. Since 2004 it has backed leading consumer brands, including Sula Wines, Saffronart, Cleartrip, Bakers Circle, Mocha, Salt Water Café, Redmart, Mswipe Technologies, Exito Gourmet, Tierra Food, Saraf Foods and Veeba Food Services, aiming for long-term value creation in the consumer sector.

Torch Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs consumer technology companies and the infrastructure layers that power them. It supports visionary founders using technology to transform how consumers and businesses operate, focusing on opportunities in the consumer and technology sectors.

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London and Bangalore. It funds early- and growth-stage technology companies across software, cloud, SaaS, consumer, enterprise IT and related sectors, and it supports portfolio companies as they scale internationally. With a global network and more than three decades of experience, Accel seeks to help entrepreneurs build world-class, category-defining businesses. Notable investments include Atlassian, Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Braintree, Cloudera and Qualtrics, among others. Accel operates multiple funds and programs to back companies at different stages, continuing a long track record of backing ambitious technology founders around the world.

Forerunner Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on consumer-led technology and branded consumer companies in North America. The firm targets early-stage and high-growth opportunities, backing entrepreneurs who connect offline and online commerce, social and mobile commerce, and internet marketplaces with enabling tools and services. It provides capital alongside strategic guidance and consumer insight to help portfolio companies scale within evolving retail and digital ecosystems. Its focus spans sectors such as consumer products and services, health and wellness, finance, entertainment, and productivity, with emphasis on opportunities where brands meet modern consumers and technology enhances the consumer experience.

Jumpstart Foundry is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Nashville, Tennessee, that funds and supports early-stage healthcare companies. It connects portfolio startups with industry stakeholders and provides guidance on strategic marketing, talent and growth, while operating a 14-week core program and a six-week micro-accelerator for startups, as well as a corporate-focused micro-accelerator. The firm concentrates on healthcare information technology, consumer health products and services, tech-enabled services, and diagnostic devices in the United States, aiming to accelerate growth, market adoption, and collaboration with industry leaders.

Pitango Venture Capital is a Herzliya-based venture capital firm, founded in 1993, with additional offices in New York and Silicon Valley. The firm manages multiple funds, including Pitango First, Pitango Growth, and Pitango HealthTech, and pursues early to growth-stage investments across Israel and international markets. Its focus spans information technology, software and TMT, health tech and digital health, artificial intelligence, IoT, and related sectors. Pitango emphasizes hands-on support for portfolio companies, including strategy, talent, fundraising help, and scale-related guidance, and has a long track record with approximately 300 portfolio companies and 91 exits, backed by funds totaling several billion dollars.

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.

Inflection Point Ventures is an Indian angel investor network based in Gurgaon, founded in 2018. It connects startups in early to mid stages with a broad network of institutional and individual investors, including CXOs, high-net-worth individuals and family offices, to provide capital, mentorship and market access. The organization emphasizes accessibility and transparency in angel investing, with a low membership fee and small initial investment per investor, supported by extensive upfront due diligence led by industry experts. It operates across multiple sectors, including healthcare, software, clean technology, deep technology, e-commerce, edtech, fintech, gaming and social platforms, HR tech, IoT, logistics, mobility, proptech, retail technology, sports and fitness, and consumer durables. By leveraging its network, Inflection Point Ventures aims to assist entrepreneurs with guidance, customer acquisition and strategic connections, helping founders scale startups in diverse domains.

Precursor Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds in North America. It invests in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware across sectors including consumer, digital health, education, enterprise, fintech, marketplace, SaaS, information technology, media, and more. The firm tends to support companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Toronto, with activity in other U.S., Canada, and Mexico markets. Typical investments range from USD 0.1 million to 0.25 million per company. Founded in 2015, Precursor Ventures emphasizes investing in people and has adopted a Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Optum is a health services and innovation company dedicated to helping people live healthier lives. It designs a healthcare system that connects people, places, and ideas across the ecosystem to deliver personalized care, including medication, healthcare financial services, and guidance, along with technology and services for health plan providers. The company offers a broad range of medical services, including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, women's health, substance use treatment, and mental health, as well as care for common conditions of the eyes, ears, skin, and nervous system. By integrating data, insights, and digital tools, Optum seeks to improve access, care coordination, and the efficiency of the medical system for patients, providers, and employers in collaboration with health plans and other partners.

Human Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm and partner that supports early-stage founders. Drawing on its own experience building businesses, the firm adopts a hands-on approach to backing category-defining startups at pre-seed and seed stages. It pursues opportunities within the Human Needs Economy, focusing on areas such as health and wellness, the future of work and finance, the attention economy, and human connection through experiences. By partnering with founders to validate ideas, refine products, and accelerate growth, Human Ventures aims to help portfolio companies address meaningful consumer and social needs. The firm emphasizes a collaborative approach and long-term value creation rather than merely providing capital.

Expert DOJO is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Santa Monica, California, that supports early-stage startups through funding and acceleration programs. It focuses on pre-seed and seed companies worldwide, prioritizing visionary technology ventures and minority or female-founded teams. The firm engages with a global portfolio, providing capital typically in the range of tens of thousands to around one million dollars, with follow-on support to scale. Its programs aim to help startups gain traction and accelerate growth beyond what they could achieve independently.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Israel. The firm backs early and growth stage start-ups across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, healthtech, cleantech, and information technology, and pursues opportunities in the United States, Asia, and Israel. It funds a broad range of rounds, including seed, early, later, and expansion, and also provides debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed focuses on helping entrepreneurs scale through capital, strategic guidance, and operational support, and maintains a diversified portfolio across enterprise, consumer, big data, mobile, and internet-enabled sectors.

Titan Capital is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2011 and based in Gurugram, India. It prioritizes early-stage investments in companies headquartered in India and the United States, spanning consumer, internet, direct-to-consumer brands, health tech, business-to-business services, software-as-a-service, and fintech sectors. The firm supports world-class entrepreneurs aiming to generate wide-scale positive impact in India and globally.

Maverick Capital is a global investment firm established in 1993 that manages capital through long/short hedged equity strategies and private investments, with offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Philadelphia and Dallas. The firm seeks to grow and preserve capital for qualified investors, conducting deep fundamental research and actively partnering with portfolio companies to support growth, including deploying resources and taking board seats. Maverick Capital also operates Maverick Ventures, its venture arm based in San Francisco, which funds startups from seed through growth across healthcare, software and deep technology, leveraging the parent firm’s resources and experience to help entrepreneurs build scalable businesses.

What If Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Frisco, Texas, that backs startups in healthcare and aerospace and defense. Founded by Stephen Hays around 2019–2020, the firm targets early-stage companies from seed to Series C and has deployed nearly $100 million across more than 80 healthcare startups. Hays' background as a U.S. Army veteran and West Point graduate, with prior experience in aerospace and defense investment banking, informs a focus on large, fragmented markets with complex regulation and significant government and commercial customers. The firm seeks to fund disruptive innovations that can improve lives or enhance safety, tackling industries where new entrants historically struggle to gain traction against established incumbents.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that provides seed-stage and early-stage investments to technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on technology companies across software, telecommunications, media, and other TMT sectors, offering early funding and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.

Everywhere Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2017. It operates as a community-powered, early-stage investor that combines capital, mentorship, and operational experience from founders and operators across ten micro funds. The firm funds pre-seed startups globally, with emphasis on purpose-driven teams in the money, health, and work verticals, and typically participates in the first financing round. Its limited partners include more than 500 founders and operators who provide hands-on guidance and contribute to the fund's capital. The model centers on founders helping founders, aiming to accelerate the next generation of entrepreneurs through a collaborative platform rather than a traditional fund structure.

BoxGroup is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups, typically investing in pre-seed to Series A rounds. It supports companies across consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life sciences, marketplaces, and related sectors, prioritizing teams with strong vision and momentum. The firm seeks entrepreneurs launching movements in existing markets or creating new ones and aims to help category-defining businesses at the outset. While geographically active in major innovation hubs, BoxGroup evaluates opportunities across the United States and beyond, with a preference for early involvement and smaller initial checks.

7wire Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in Chicago. It focuses on early-stage investments in digital health, healthcare IT, mobile and technology-enabled services in the United States. The firm seeks to back companies that disrupt traditional approaches and provides funding along with operating guidance to help turn innovative ideas into scalable businesses. By combining capital with hands-on support and industry insight, 7wire Ventures aims to accelerate the development of digital health solutions and related technologies, guiding portfolio companies from early stages toward growth opportunities and lasting impact.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.

Founded in 2019, Sauce.vc is a venture capital firm based in New Delhi, India, that backs early-stage consumer brands across food and beverages, personal care, apparel, and lifestyle categories. The firm emphasizes high engagement with its portfolio and leverages a broad service-partner network to provide scaling support for Indian brands, helping them expand operations, distribution, and market presence.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

Astarte Medical is a clinical intelligence company that uses software and predictive analytics to improve outcomes for children with medical complexity. Its platform provides digital tools to support standardized care protocols, care planning, and decision-making in acute and complex pediatric settings, enabling hospitals to monitor growth, nutrition, and clinical outcomes. The company offers a universal view of real-time clinical data to assess conditions such as preterm infant gut health and feeding, with features that standardize feeding practices in NICUs and support protocol-driven care across medically complex pediatric populations.

Aspire Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It invests in technology companies across artificial intelligence, information technology, and mobile sectors, and also focuses on healthcare technology and the Internet of Things, leveraging capital, intellectual property, and domain expertise to help portfolio companies address complex problems.

Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2014. It invests in early and growth-stage startups across a broad range of sectors, including B2B, B2C, energy, healthcare, financial services, information technology, agriculture, and various technology areas such as AI, clean technology, and climate tech, with an emphasis on companies that pursue both profit and social impact. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser.

NextView Ventures is a Boston- and New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that focuses on seed and early-stage investments across a broad set of sectors including fintech, software, B2B and consumer technologies, health, and internet-enabled businesses. The firm operates on a hands-on, high-conviction approach, often taking a lead or board role in portfolio companies and supporting them through early growth. It targets U.S. startups, with a notable emphasis on the Boston and New York ecosystems, and maintains an accelerator program that provides investment and guidance to a small number of pre-seed and seed ventures. NextView emphasizes thematic investing and aims to help entrepreneurs build companies of significance to shape a future of collective prosperity.

Headline is a San Francisco based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that operates globally with a presence in seven cities and leads rounds across stages. It maintains a multi fund approach, with Early Stage funds across the US, Europe, Asia and Brazil and a Growth Fund based in San Francisco that backs companies from Series B onward, enabling it to identify local trends and back scale across geographies. The firm backs a broad range of sectors including consumer, media, financial services, healthcare, information technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, e commerce, artificial intelligence and digital health, and has a notable portfolio featuring Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, GoPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble and Yeahka. Headline also runs an Asia arm, Headline Asia, based in Tokyo, investing in East, South and Southeast Asia across B2B, media, fintech, healthcare, IT, e commerce, AI and other sectors, with activity including a 2020 vintage Asia IV fund focused on the region. Headline positions itself as a global, founder friendly investor that seeks to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs to build lasting companies.

LAUNCH is an Austin, Texas-based early-stage investment firm and accelerator platform that combines capital with education for startups. It provides syndicate funding and operates a suite of programs to support builders, including Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, and Startup Tuneup, as well as events such as Remote Demo Day. The LAUNCH ecosystem pairs investment with structured training, community access, and practical guidance to help founders move from idea to growth. By coordinating funding and educational programs, LAUNCH aims to accelerate startup development and enable teams to scale.

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and based in Singapore, investing in technology startups across Southeast Asia, including Singapore and Indonesia. It provides early-stage investments and, as described by sources, supports a multi-stage approach from seed to growth across sectors such as e-commerce, software, fintech, health tech, edtech, crypto, logistics, and AI. The firm has backed notable Southeast Asian tech companies, illustrating an active role in developing the regional startup ecosystem and supporting portfolio companies through growth in dynamic markets.

Pareto Holdings is a venture capital firm and venture studio founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York. It focuses on early-stage and pre-seed investments across industries and geographies, often backing entrepreneurs at the outset. The company invests its own capital rather than raising external funds and operates with a lean, globally distributed team. It has completed hundreds of investments to date, and provides hands-on support to startups through its venture studio activities.