High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies in Germany. Based in Bonn with an additional office in Berlin, it operates as a public-private partnership that supports high-tech startups across information technology, software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry and related fields. HTGF provides initial funding and follow-on capital to eligible young companies, often taking minority stakes and participating as lead or co-investor, while offering hands-on guidance from experienced investment managers and startup experts. Since its founding in 2005, the firm has backed numerous startups and facilitated the growth of portfolio companies through multiple funds aimed at early stages. The model combines both public support, involving government and financial institutions, with private investor participation to nurture startups from concept to market.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bentley Systems is a software company that develops infrastructure design, construction, and operations tools. It provides MicroStation for modeling and visualization, ProjectWise for project information management and collaboration, AssetWise for asset information management, and PlantSight for digital plant operations, along with SYNCHRO XR for mixed-reality construction planning. The company also offers iModelHub, OpenSite Designer, and iModel.js to accelerate digital twins and data interoperability across desktop, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its solutions support engineers, architects, planners, contractors, fabricators, IT managers, and operators, enabling design, modeling, simulation, project management, and data management of infrastructure assets. The largest end market is public works and utilities. Bentley Systems has strategic alliances with Siemens and Microsoft. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, the company focuses on enabling lifecycle workflows and digital twins for infrastructure projects.

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.

Turkey Development Fund is an economic development agency based in Istanbul, established in 2019. It aims to advance Turkey’s sustainable development by investing in companies and funds that support strategic sectors and cultivate the early-stage venture capital ecosystem, including through sub-funds. The organization seeks to develop the enterprise landscape by backing new generation startups. Assets are managed by a board of directors.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, it concentrates on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with notable focus areas including fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners manages over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies achieving an IPO. The firm combines capital with hands-on, right-sized software expertise to support portfolio companies on their growth journey from first investment to IPO.

Entrepreneur First is a London-based accelerator and seed-stage technology investor that supports exceptional individuals to found technology companies. It uses a talent-first model, funding and mentoring people before teams form, and operates six-month programs in Europe and Asia with global offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Singapore, Bangalore, New York and San Francisco to connect founders with startup ecosystems. The organization funds early-stage ventures and takes an equity stake in the companies it helps establish, aiming to increase the supply of high-potential tech startups worldwide by pairing standout talent with mentorship and capital.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that backs technology companies from seed stage through growth rounds. It targets a broad range of sectors including AI, cloud and software, fintech, robotics, life sciences, media, and mobility, and pursues global investments across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and resources for portfolio companies, aiming to help them scale beyond financing. It operates a pure investment fund alongside corporate venture funds formed with leading public companies across telecom, real estate, financial services, beverages, agriculture and food, logistics, and electronics.

Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley that funds seed- and early-stage technology and science startups. It concentrates on deep tech across the physical and life sciences, investing in biochemistry, material science, electronics, infrastructure, aerospace, satellites, drones, and space technologies, as well as software, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, genomics and synthetic biology. The firm takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build high-growth companies and has a track record of launching more than 20 portfolio companies. With a technically engaged approach, Lux supports portfolio progress by leveraging deep domain insight and industry connections to drive leadership and scale.

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2017. It operates as an early-stage investor backed by a network of over 420 Y Combinator alumni, and it seeks to back top YC startups. The firm maintains a broad sector scope, investing in consumer products and services, information technology, financial technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, life sciences, healthcare technology, real estate technology, ride-sharing, and SaaS and supply chain technologies, among others. Pioneer Fund positions itself as a generalist, technology-focused investor with activity across consumer, enterprise and emerging tech sectors.

Shenzhen Capital Group is a government-backed venture capital firm established by the Shenzhen Government in 1999. It focuses on cultivating national industries and brands, promoting economic transformation, and developing emerging sectors. The firm invests primarily in small to medium-sized enterprises and innovative high-tech companies across start-up, growth, and transformation stages, targeting industries aligned with national policies such as information technology, internet and new media, biopharma, new energy, environmental protection, chemical engineering, new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, and modern services. Through its portfolio, it aims to build national champions and support industrial upgrading in China, leveraging its capital base to support long-term value creation.

UP Partners is a Santa Monica, California-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on mobility. Founded in 2020, it seeks to invest in early-stage startups that advance multi-dimensional mobility. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to develop products and services in the mobility space and operates as a registered investment adviser.

Quantonation is a Paris-based venture capital firm focused on quantum technologies and related advanced fields. Founded in 2018, it backs startups working in deep physics, molecular design, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and ultra-precise sensing, aiming to translate scientific advances into commercially available products. The firm emphasizes scientific expertise to identify and support early-stage companies that can transition quantum innovations into practical applications across industry.

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.

Matterwave Ventures is a Munich-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that focuses on early-stage investments in industrial hardware and software. The firm adopts a sector-neutral approach, seeking opportunities across Europe in areas such as materials, components, systems, and software that advance industrial value creation. It supports portfolio companies with market knowledge, industry connections, and strategic investment expertise to help them become global leaders.

Anorak Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that backs early-stage startups and aligns incentives with founders to provide capital and support for growth. Founded in 2016, the firm has made about 40 investments and has raised follow-on funding totaling around $250 million, contributing to a portfolio valued at roughly $1.8 billion. Its focus spans business products, business services, consumer products and services, and information technology, reflecting an emphasis on technology-enabled companies that address practical market needs.

IQ Capital is a Cambridge and London based venture capital firm that backs early‑stage and growth technology companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, with a focus on deep tech capable of global leadership. The firm invests in seed and Series A rounds and can provide follow‑on capital through a Growth Fund, with initial checks typically in the hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of pounds. Its portfolio spans software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, health tech, advanced engineering, semiconductors, energy and cybersecurity. IQ Capital has a track record of more than 30 exits to major tech companies and takes a hands‑on approach, often supporting portfolio companies with governance and strategic guidance to scale internationally.

Join Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm that makes minority investments across seed, early-stage, and later-stage rounds in Europe. It focuses on industrial, B2B software, and technology sectors, including Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech, backing companies that develop smart machinery, robotics, and data-driven systems for manufacturing and supply chains. The firm supports technologies such as machine learning, cloud computing, IoT, and smart sensors that optimize operations, manufacturing processes, and global production systems.

BDC Venture Capital is a major Canadian venture capital investor that supports technology-based startups from seed through expansion. It provides financing, consulting services and securitization to help build strong Canadian businesses, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and high growth potential. Established in 1975, it has invested in more than 400 companies spanning life sciences, telecommunications, information technology and advanced technologies, aiming to help Canadian companies become dominant players in their markets.

Parkwalk Advisors is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage to growth-stage technology companies, with a particular emphasis on spin-outs derived from UK universities and research institutes. It targets UK-based, often unquoted companies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, big data, life sciences, materials, cleantech, future mobility, medical technology, quantum computing and related fields, and operates with a stage-agnostic approach from seed through later rounds. The firm leverages academic networks, technology transfer channels and venture networks to access deal flow and support portfolio companies. Founded in 2009, it has been aligned with IP Group as part of its corporate structure, reinforcing its focus on intellectual property-backed innovation. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 that supports the region's technology ecosystem. Based in Philadelphia, it acts as a capital provider and catalyst for early-stage and growing technology companies across information technology, health, and physical sciences by offering seed-stage funding and related resources to accelerate commercialization. The organization facilitates university–industry partnerships and regional initiatives that connect scientific research with market opportunities, with the aim of creating jobs and strengthening entrepreneurial communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Through its programs and partnerships, it supports adoption of new technologies and helps build a robust regional innovation ecosystem.

Owl Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that specializes in education technology investments across early childhood, K-12, higher education and career learning. The firm maintains a hands-on approach to help edtech startups scale into category-leading companies and has invested in around two dozen education technology companies, leveraging deep domain expertise to guide product development, deployment and growth.

FTTF is a venture capital firm based in Munich, Germany that invests in pre-seed and seed startups across software, industrial tech, energy, agritech, space and proptech, with a focus on deeptech and companies leveraging Fraunhofer technologies.

Investible is a venture capital firm based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2014, that backs seed and early-stage technology companies. It focuses on climate tech, smart cities, food and agriculture, transport, industrial, and clean tech sectors across Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia, and its portfolio includes more than 100 early-stage companies across 11 countries and 20 sectors. The firm supports portfolio companies by connecting them with capital, expertise, and networks to help them grow and scale globally. Its operations include offices in Sydney and Singapore, reflecting an international footprint.

CAS Star is a venture capital firm based in Xi'an, China, with an additional office in Beijing. It engages in high-tech industry investment and incubation, aiming to build a scientific and technological entrepreneurial ecosystem that connects research institutions, angel funds, incubators, and entrepreneurship training to support technology entrepreneurs. The firm targets sectors including optoelectronic chips, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, aerospace, smart manufacturing, information technology, energy, oncology, advanced manufacturing, software as a service, and space technology.

IP Group is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on commercialising intellectual property from research-intensive institutions. It creates value by identifying early-stage IP, developing it into commercially viable opportunities, and forming strategic partnerships to support portfolio companies. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and industry insight to science- and technology-based businesses, with emphasis on clean technology, life sciences, and deep tech. With more than twenty years of experience, IP Group supports the growth of science and technology companies from inception toward scale, helping translate research into market-ready products and accelerate their impact.

Boost VC is a San Mateo-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in deep technology startups. Founded in 2012 by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, the firm backs hardware and software companies across aerospace, robotics, bio/health, AI, crypto, VR/AR, energy and climate, defense, oceans, and materials. It typically participates in pre-seed rounds and has a track record of leading early rounds, targeting rapid initial funding to help startups establish product-market fit. The firm emphasizes transformative technologies and long-term impact, supporting companies from inception through initial growth stages.

Hiventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. It backs startups across multiple sectors and supports high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises, with the aim of fostering a sustainable and competitive SME and enterprise ecosystem in Hungary and the broader Central and Eastern Europe region. The firm is described as one of the largest and most active venture capital partners in Central and Eastern Europe.

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.

IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) is a late-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, that backs North American information technology companies. It focuses on growth-stage opportunities across sectors such as artificial intelligence, enterprise software, SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, digital health, gaming, and cryptocurrency, providing capital and strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale. The firm serves as a trusted partner to founders and executives seeking to accelerate growth and market leadership.

Meritech Capital Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 1999. It focuses on late-stage and growth-stage investments in technology companies, with emphasis on software, information technology, communications and networking, and TMT sectors in North America, primarily the United States. The firm provides substantial capital to enable scaling of established tech companies.

Shasta Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 that focuses on early-stage software investments in the United States. It backs startups in software as a service, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence, and consumer subscription sectors, typically supporting seed to Series B rounds. The firm operates from Portola Valley, California, and provides tailored resources to help founders navigate early-stage challenges rather than offering a one-size-fits-all program.

2xN is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that invests in technology companies.

Amadeus Capital Partners is a London-based global technology investor and venture capital firm founded in 1997. It backs technology companies across stages, from seed to growth, across sectors including software, cybersecurity, healthcare IT, fintech, hardware and semiconductors, communications and networking, and clean energy. The firm also participates in secondary investments to provide founders with additional runway and partners with entrepreneurs to scale. To date it has backed over 130 companies and raised more than a billion dollars for investment, with a focus on Europe and selective opportunities in Israel.

Bluepoint Partners is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Daejeon, South Korea, with offices in Daejeon and Seoul. It supports high-tech entrepreneurs by providing accelerator programs and early-stage funding, helping them launch, grow, and raise capital through connections to investors, strategic partnerships, talent, advisors, and media exposure, and by facilitating potential exits. The firm focuses on biotechnology, medical tech, cleantech, data, artificial intelligence, food tech, healthcare, technology, and industrial tech.

Earlybird Venture Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 1997 that backs technology companies across Europe from early stages to growth. It focuses on consumer and enterprise technology, mobility and logistics, the internet of things, marketplaces, artificial intelligence, fintech, health tech, and related software-enabled services, often investing as lead or minority investor and taking board seats where appropriate. The firm provides strategic support and access to international networks and capital markets to help portfolio companies scale. It operates from Berlin with additional offices in Munich, Istanbul, and the United States, and is regarded as one of Europe’s most established and active VC firms.

Parkway Venture Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2019. It acts as a registered investment adviser and focuses on early to growth-stage deep-tech companies, spanning climate tech, quantum tech, generative design, business intelligence, health tech, metaverse, and consumer B2C sectors. The firm emphasizes investments in companies applying software and hardware technologies to enable digital transformation, including data science, AI, simulation, automation, IoT, AR, and optimization. Portfolio targets firms with software-as-a-service offerings, distinctive technology, and valuable patents or IP that support high growth and potential strategic value for acquirers.

Elaia is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris that backs early-stage technology companies in Europe, focusing on the digital economy and deep tech. Founded in 2002 by Philippe Gire and Xavier Lazarus, it combines extensive venture capital and digital industry experience to provide close, proactive support to its entrepreneurs. With more than €700 million under management, Elaia pursues software, B2B, cybersecurity, fintech, life sciences, cloud technologies, and related tech sectors, helping startups navigate from initial rounds to scalable global leaders.

Amplify Partners is a Menlo Park-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology companies across the United States. It focuses on seed and Series A investments in enterprise software, infrastructure technologies, and related areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, data and analytics, cybersecurity, and information technology. The firm seeks technical founders solving enterprise problems and supports them through multiple rounds of funding, with typical initial checks in the tens of thousands to several millions of dollars. It emphasizes Infrastructure 2.0 opportunities and avoids consumer internet and cleantech sectors. The firm is registered as an investment adviser and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Quiet Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. It invests across enterprise, consumer, fintech, marketplaces, deep tech, healthcare, and crypto sectors, and operates as a registered investment adviser.

FirstMark Capital is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2008 that backs early-stage technology companies. It collaborates with exceptional founders to build iconic enterprise and consumer software and platform companies and has supported notable businesses such as Pinterest, Shopify, DraftKings, Discord, Airbnb, StubHub, Riot Games, and InVision.

Airbus Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Airbus Group, based in Menlo Park, California. It makes early-stage investments in autonomous mobility, electrification, a low-carbon economy, advanced materials, manufacturing systems, next-generation computing, sensing, and security, among other technology areas. The firm provides hands-on support to its portfolio companies and leverages the resources and networks of its parent company, Airbus, and its supply chain. It also taps into the broader ecosystem of investors and partners to help startups scale. By combining strategic value with financial discipline, Airbus Ventures aims to back startups that advance aviation, mobility, and related infrastructure while driving innovation for Airbus and its ecosystem.

TransLink Capital is a Palo Alto-based independent venture capital firm that provides seed-to-expansion stage investments in technology companies. Founded in 2007, the firm maintains offices across Asia and targets opportunities in the United States, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions including Europe and Israel. It backs early to growth-stage firms across sectors such as AgTech, Fintech, artificial intelligence, IoT, enterprise software and SaaS, mobility, digital health, retail tech, consumer platforms, robotics, and semiconductors. Typical investments span a few million dollars, reflecting a focus on companies poised to scale internationally and form strategic partnerships, particularly between the United States and Asia. By leveraging relationships with major Asian companies, TransLink Capital helps portfolio companies establish long-term partnerships and expand their footprint in Asia and beyond.

CDP Venture Capital is an Italian venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Rome. It invests in startups and growth companies across Italy, spanning sectors such as consumer products and services, information technology, fintech and insur-tech, healthcare and life sciences, software as a service, artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual reality, big data, advanced manufacturing, energy, education and training, agriculture materials, and other technology-driven areas. By backing early and growth-stage ventures, it aims to support Italy's economic development and the innovation ecosystem.

Credo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in Central and Eastern Europe. It seeks high-growth, internationally ambitious companies and supports their expansion, including to the United States, across information technology, software, Internet, mobile, B2B enterprise software, cybersecurity and healthcare sectors. Typically a minority investor, the firm backs seed through Series B rounds, with investment sizes usually ranging from €0.5 million to €10 million, and is based in Prague, Czech Republic, with an office in San Francisco to facilitate global engagement.

Founded in 2023, Kvanted Ventures invests in early-stage companies across Northern Europe, focusing on innovative software and hardware solutions. The firm backs companies from pre-seed to Series A that demonstrate tangible products or services, with a particular interest in robotics, AI, autonomous systems, connectivity, data processing, sensing technology, circularity, and biomaterials.