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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.

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.

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.

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

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%.

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

Sapphire Ventures is a US venture capital fund that invests in visionary companies seeking to change the way we work and live. We write initial cheques as little as $5-10m for expansion-stage companies and can invest up to $100m in later stage businesses. We have a long history of venture investing across numerous cycles and provide our portfolio companies with significant expertise beyond capital. One of our core focuses is on enterprise tech in US, Europe and Israel. Through Sapphire Sports and our dedicated funds, we also invest at the intersection of tech, sports, media and entertainment. In addition, through Sapphire Partners we invest in early-stage venture capital funds with deep expertise in enterprise and consumer tech in the US, Europe and Israel. Sapphire Ventures was formerly the corporate venture capital arm of SAP before being spun out in 2011.

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.

Scale Venture Partners is a venture capital investment firm that invests in software companies that are transforming the future of work.

500 Global is a venture capital firm investing in globally ambitious founders building fast-growing technology companies, with a focus on the US and global markets. It was founded in 2010 as 500 Startups and states US$2.0 billion of assets under management (as at 31 October 2024).

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.

Innovation Endeavors is a venture capital firm focused on visionary founders, transformational technology and emergent ecosystems for a new world. Innovation Endeavors was co-founded by Eric Schmidt (ex-CEO and Chairman of Google), who remains an anchor investor, and merged with Herzilya, an Israel-based fund, in August 2017. Innovation Endeavors has offices in Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv and New York, and focuses its investment efforts on North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Felicis Ventures is a boutique venture capital fund that looks to back the world's iconic companies of today and tomorrow. We have a passion for product and out-of-the-box thinking and we customize our relationship with each portfolio company in a way that is meaningful and critical for them. In these partnerships with founders we strive to deliver high value help where needed. Felicis backs founders from diverse backgrounds in their quest to open up frontier markets, such as longevity and engineered foods, and reinvent critical markets such as mental health and insurance. We feel strongly that great investments are a consequence of deep conviction. We do our homework and are vocal when we see the most interesting opportunities. We are not driven by ownership and do not make investment decisions based solely on potential exit size. At the same time our fund has enough scale to allow us to play a critical role for the companies we back. As our track record indicates, we define success in the same way as our founders. We believe in backing iconic founders regardless of their location, including places outside of the United States. We're proud of the fact that our portfolio founders originate from 40+ different countries across a multitude of continents. We have invested in companies with operations in 15+ countries including Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Turkey, and the US. Outside the US, we look for businesses with the potential to be global winners like Shopify and Adyen.