Lux Capital

Venrock is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto that focuses on disruptive early-stage technology startups. Venrock partners with entrepreneurs who have grand ambitions and want to tackle big, hard problems that most think impossible. Venrock today consists of two separate programs: a traditional venture capital program, focused on early stage investing in healthcare and technology companies; and a later-stage healthcare program, which implements a venture capital-like long-term approach to investment opportunities in small capitalization public companies and late-stage private healthcare companies. Venrock was formed in 1969 as a venture arm of the Rockefeller family (the name Venrock being a compound of Venture and Rockefeller), who have a long history of venture-style investing dating back to the early 20th century.

FirstMark Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York that primarily invests at the seed or Series A stage. We are proud to back the ambitious founders of the most iconic companies in the world. We provide our investee companies access to the FirstMark platform and resources, which we believe is powered by the largest network in venture capital. FirstMark was founded in 2008 as a spinoff of Pequot Ventures, owned Pequot Capital Management.

Aspect ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in the United States. We invest primarily at the Series A, and occasionally Seed, stage, and continue to back our entrepreneurs. We have deep investment expertise, having invested and worked alongside entrepreneurs across several market cycles and having backed founders who have created enduring companies and generated billions of dollars of returns. We believe in surrounding an entrepreneurial team with more than one set of insights, experiences, perspectives, and networks to maximize founder success. We are not limited by a particular check size or ownership percentage when we invest in a company. We are focused on getting the right team around the table for our entrepreneurs at every step of their company's growth - from seed to maturity.

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.

Thrive Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in early and later stage technology companies. Thrive is industry and sector agnostic and has separate funds dedicated for earlier and growth stage investments. Our capital is highly flexible. We can incubate businesses (such as Oscar, Cadre and Cedar), partner with entrepreneurs through early development (e.g. Glossier, Warby Parker, Compass), and can lead later stage investments in large, category-making companies such as Spotify, Instagram, Twitch and Stripe. Thrive Capital was founded by Josh Kushner in 2009.

Andreessen Horowitz backs bold entrepreneurs who move fast, think big, and are committed to building the next major franchises in technology. Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm provides entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights in innovation, executive and technical talent, market intelligence, policy and regulatory affairs, business development, and marketing and brand-building.