Detroit Venture Partners

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. It is one of the earliest, largest and most successful venture capital funds in the world.

Bessemer Venture Partners is the oldest venture capital firm in the United States, and invests in enterprise, consumer and healthcare technology startups around the world. Bessemer invests from seed stage to growth, and across the technology and services stack. With a history that includes early investments in Yelp, LinkedIn and Skype, Bessemer has earned a reputation for spotting fledgling stars in the notably hard to predict world of consumer tech.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture fund that invests in revolutionary technologies. We focus on investing in smart people solving difficult problems - to do so, we will invest at all stages across almost any sector. Unlike many venture firms in Silicon Valley, this means that Founders Fund does not limit itself to internet-based technology and software. Founders Fund has and will continue to invest in areas including biotechnology, energy, hardware, and aerospace. Founders Fund was founded by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek in 2005 and raised its first fund that year. In 2016 Founders Fund raised a $1.3 billion fund, its sixth fund to date.

Ribbit Capital is a global venture capital firm focused exclusive on financial technology (fintech) investments. We have deep expertise in financial businesses, understand the associated complexity and challenges, and work actively with our investee companies. Our goal isn't just to write checks. It's to deposit and grow ideas. Ribbit Capital was founded by Meyer Malka in 2012. Meyer Malka previously founded and sold Patagon.com, an online brokerage in Latin America, for more than $700 million.

Khosla Ventures is a seed and later stage venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled companies with huge potential. Fundamentally, we are looking for 'black swan' ideas or a significantly better mousetrap. High impact innovation with significant upside. Big markets and short innovation cycles. At the seed stage we look for crazy ideas addressing well articulated problems. We look for companies with unfair advantages - be it science, IP, business-model innovation or a partnership. At later stages, we expect to see more progress. The problem the company is solving should now be clearly identifiable in one sentence. The market size and potential should be identified using bottom-up analysis. There should be a clear go-to-market strategy.

8VC is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. 8VC's mantra is: 'the world is broken: let's fix it', and this defines our investment mantra. We look to invest in software, biotechnology, hardware, and other technology-enabled startups. We have raised separate seed stage, early-stage, co-invest and follow-on funds. 8VC was founded in 2015 by Joe Londsdale, Alex Kolicich, Jake Medwell, and Drew Oetting. We are based in San Francisco and invest throughout North America.

GV is an independent venture capital firm launched as Google Ventures in 2009, with Alphabet as its sole limited partner. It invests from seed to growth in technology and life sciences and provides operating-partner support to founding teams.

B Capital Goup invests in B2B startups in four areas: consumer enablement, financial services & insurance, health & wellness, and industrial & transportation. Our team has substantial expertise and connections in these areas and is able to leverage this skillset to assist our investee companies in reaching scale. We look for transformative startups and invest in an early expansion stage (usually Series B or C), at a time when the company is reading for rapid growth and acceleration. We focus on India, South East Asia and the United States and we have a partnership with Boston Consulting Group and its BCG Digital Ventures accelerator. B Capital was founded by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly.

Spark Capital is a US venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs who are driven to move people with the products and experiences they create. We invest in companies at all stages of their life cycle, and have invested in some of the most successful global startups including Twitter, Tumblr, Oculus, Cruise and Slack. Spark Capital has raised seven funds since its founding in 2005, including its two most recent funds, a $400 million early-stage venture fund and a $600 million venture growth fund. Spark Capital primarily focuses on technology startups in the media, entertainment, and mobile sectors, and frequently co-invests with Union Square Ventures.

Bain Capital Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on high-growth enterprise software opportunities, including SaaS, data services, marketing-tech, fin-tech, healthcare and software. We partner with great B2B founders and accelerate their market vision. Our investments span $1 million seed capital through to $100m growth equity cheques. We draw on a global network of experience, and the full resources of Bain Capital, one of the world's leading alternative asset firms with more than $60 billion under management across a variety of investment strategies. Our focus areas currently include business applications (DocuSign, SendGrid, Gainsight), infrastructure and security (Redis Labs, Rubrik, Armis), financial technology (Acorns, IEX), healthcare IT (AbleTo, ABILITY Network), and consumer (Rent the Runway, Jet). We also have emerging practices in autonomy/mobility (Ike, Lime) and cryptocurrency (DCG, Compound Labs). Bain Capital Ventures invests globally, although the majority of our investments are in the United States

Columbia Capital is a venture capital firm focused on enterprise IT, internet infrastructure, and mobility investments within the communications, media, and technology (CMT) sector.

Industry Ventures invests in venture funds and companies through primary commitments, secondary transactions and direct investments, alongside technology buyouts. Founded in 2000.

Lux Capital is a venture fund that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible. We partner with bold entrepreneurs who are challenging the status of quo - and we are willing to bet on them when no-one else can or will. Our team is comprised of neuroscientists, chemists, data scientists, computational biologists, economists, electrical engineers, machine-learning hackers and philosophers. Lux Capital was founded by Peter Hebert, Robert Paull and Josh Wolfe in the year 2000 and has its headquarters in New York with an additional Silicon Valley office.

Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies in the United States.

Greylock Partners is one of the world's oldest venture capital firms, having been founded in 1965. Greylock focuses on early-stage companies in software (consumer and enterprise), enterprise infrastructure and semiconductors. We invest at all stages, from Seed through to Series A, B and Growth rounds. We invest in all sectors of enterprise software technology including applications, cloud/SaaS, data center, management, networking, security and storage. We invest in all sectors of consumer software technology including advertising, commerce, gaming, marketplaces, media, mobile, services, and social. Greylock looks for entrepreneurs building market-transforming products and services, and primarily focuses its investing in North America.

Early-stage venture capital firm investing across AI, consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.

Notable Capital is a US venture capital firm that partners with early-stage technology founders. It became the independent US-focused successor to GGV Capital in March 2024, while GGV Capital's Asian operations rebranded as Granite Asia. The firm reports more than 25 years of experience and over USD 5 billion in assets under management.

With $7 billion of committed capital, IVP is one of the premier later-stage venture capital and growth equity firms in the United States. IVP is a hard-working team of experienced investors who have advised a large number of technology executives over the past few decades. We are a dedicated group of investment professionals who specialize in later-stage company growth, typically companies above $100 million valuation. Growth is our doctrine: we truly believe it is the key catalyst that separates the ultimate winners from the rest of the pack. We know that it takes persistence, experience, vision, and agility to achieve true greatness. Our firm works hard to help CEOs mitigate the daunting risks and challenges that inevitably appear during the rapid growth phases of a company's life. We hope we get to be a part of your journey as a growth company. IVP was founded by Reid Dennis in 1980. Since then, IVP has invested in over 300 companies, 106 of which have gone public. IVP is one of the top-performing firms in the industry and has a 36-year IRR of 43.2%.