Versant Ventures

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.

Union Square Ventures is a small collegial partnership based in New York that manages over $1B across seven technology-focused venture funds. Union Square Ventures is one of the most successful venture funds in the world and has been an early-stage investor in some of America's most successful startups such as Zynga, Indeed, Tumblr, Twitter, Lending Club, Etsy, Twilio and MongoDB. USV was founded in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham.

Foundry Group is a Colorado-based venture firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies headquartered in the US and Canada. Foundry Group also invests in select, newly-formed venture capital fund managers. Foundry Group formed in 2007 and originally focused on Seed and Series A investments. It raised a growth-stage fund in 2014 (Foundry Group Next), and a fund dedicated to investing in other venture funds (Foundry Group Next) in 2016. Regardless of the size of our initial investment, the size and structure of our funds allow us to continue to fund portfolio companies through their entire financing lifecycles. In addition, our venture capital fund investments give us insight and access to a large number of venture-backed companies at varying stages while extending the reach of our overall network. In addition to providing capital, we leverage our experience in starting and growing companies, our expertise in the technology industry, and our network of relationships to help outstanding entrepreneurs and venture capital fund managers turn great ideas into great companies.

GV (formerly Google Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Google (Alphabet, Inc.). GV has been investing in technology and biotechnology related companies in the life science, healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, cyber security, and agriculture sectors. We have a world-class team of engineers, designers, physicians, scientists, marketers, and investors who work together to provide these startups exceptional support on the road to success. We help our companies interface with Google, providing unique access to the world's best technology and talent. That said, we operate as an independent venture firm that is focused on investment returns. Today, GV has approximately $2.4bn in assets under management and looks to invest $500m per year in start ups. GV is separate to Capital G (formerly Google Capital), which invests in fewer, more mature ventures, with larger deal sizes.

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.

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