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#1 General Catalyst

General Catalyst combines seed- and growth-focused VC funds with company creation and business buyouts, alongside tailored founder-capital solutions.

#2 Accel Partners

Accel is a leading US-headquartered early and growth-stage venture capital firm. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business. Founded in 1983, Accel brings more than three decades of experience building and supporting hundreds of companies. Accel's vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media and others.

#3 New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare across stages, including early-stage and venture-growth opportunities.

#4 Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

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.

#5 Bessemer Venture Partners

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.

#6 Founders Fund

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.

#8 B Capital Group

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.

#9 Spark Capital

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.

#10 Bain Capital 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

#11 Industry Ventures

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

#12 Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco and London. Index invests in technology companies, especially in the marketplace, eCommerce, Big Data, Gaming, Open Source and Security sectors, where we have deep expertise. Index backs the best and most ambitious entrepreneurs who want to build large, global businesses. We find these entrepreneurs wherever they are in the world, and have invested in more than 24 countries and 39 cities since founding. We provide full service to each of our portfolio companies. Unlike other VC's, when we invest, every partner assists and is available to our investee companies, providing unparalleled access to the expertise we have developed over our investing and industry careers. Historically, we invested in more advanced startups, however since 2005, Index Ventures has also made a number of seed investments where we look to become the first institutional capital into transformative companies and invest $100K to $2 million per seed investment.

#13 Canaan Partners

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

#14 Greylock Partners

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.

#15 Notable Capital

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.

#16 Institutional Venture Partners

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%.

#17 Redpoint Ventures

Redpoint Ventures is a US-headquartered venture capital firm that focused on seed, early stage and growth rounds.

#18 Matrix Partners

Matrix Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early stage technology companies building B2B, infrastructure and consumer technology. We have been investing since 1977 and have invested in some of the most iconic technology companies. We invest globally, are headquartered in California, and have offices in Boston, Mumbai (Matrix Partners India) and China (Matrix Partners China). Matrix Partners was founded in 1977 by Paul Ferri and Warren Hellman.

#21 EQT Ventures

EQT Ventures is the venture capital arm of EQT, investing in high-growth technology companies across Europe and the US.

#22 Versant Ventures

Versant Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on biotechnology and life sciences, with a primary focus on novel therapeutics targeting important unmet medical needs. Versant Ventures both develops its own projects, and invests in external companies. In both instances we provide the necessary funds to bring the product to launch. We have a large team of scientists, known as our Discovery Engines, which develop and validate new biological discoveries and technologies. We also invest in externally developed IP in companies throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.

#24 Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides individual accredited investors access to diversified early-stage startup portfolios, co-investing alongside top venture firms.

#25 Entree Capital

Entree Capital is an Israel and US-based venture capital firm that invests globally in early-stage technology companies, with a focus on software, fintech, deep tech, and AI.

#26 True Ventures

True Ventures is a US-based venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs create products in markets that really don't yet exist. We are willing to take bets that others will not, and will invest at the Series A stage or earlier and back up our initial investment with follow-on capital. True Ventures sector focus shifts as the opportunity set moves: we are not fixated on any one particular sector. However, along with software and other soft technology, we have expertise and have invested in hardware, biotechnology / life sciences and deep tech. We believe in building community, taking bold risks, and supporting our companies throughout their entire lifecycles.

#27 Emergence Capital

Emergence Capital invests in early stage ventures focusing on enterprise & SaaS applications, and especially companies with machine-learning enabled solutions at their core. We are long-term investors who want to partner with entrepreneurs who want to change the world work. Emergence Capital prides itself on being bold and willing to take risks where other venture firms will not. We only make 5-7 investments a year, meaning we go all-in on the companies we back. Emergence Capital has invested in a number of successful companies including Salesforce, Box, Zoom, and and Service Box, and has raised five funds since its founding in 2003.

#28 5AM Ventures

5AM Ventures is a leading venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco and focused on investments into early-stage life science companies. We invest in the biopharmaceutical, drug delivery technology and research instrument sectors. We support companies that are working to solve important healthcare needs via cutting-edge breakthroughs in medicine and science. 5AM works closely with our portfolio companies. Going beyond passive board roles, ours is unusually hands-on when starting companies, assuming short-term operating roles and proactively providing guidance throughout a portfolio company's life. 5AM Ventures, through our 4:59 initiative, also discovers, incubates and funds breakthrough science. We partner alongside academics and entrepreneurs - often serving as an extension of the operating team to establish proof-of-concept data that will enable a Series A Financing.

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