VC Directory

Palo Alto, California, USA

Playground Global is an early-stage venture capital firm established in 2015, specializing in deep technology investments. The firm backs technical founders who are turning foundational advances in science and engineering into commercial, industrial, and societal impact.

Menlo Park, California

Altimeter Capital is a technology-focused investment firm that manages a diverse portfolio spanning public equity and growth-stage private investments. The firm aims to serve as a long-term partner to companies as they scale and enter the public markets, backing transformational technology companies across enterprise software, marketplaces, and infrastructure.

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2005 that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies. It is recognized for its contrarian approach, often seeking opportunities in sectors overlooked by other investors, and has a history of backing transformative companies like SpaceX, Palantir, and Stripe.

Palo Alto, California

Accel is a global venture capital firm that partners with exceptional technology-focused teams from inception through all phases of private company growth, aiming to back tech-based startups with the potential to become world-class and category-defining businesses.

Vienna, Austria

Speedinvest is a European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with additional offices across Europe. It focuses on backing innovative technology startups and providing comprehensive support to help them achieve global success.

Menlo Park, California

Kleiner Perkins is a prominent American venture capital firm established in 1972, known for partnering with founders to build and scale transformative technology and life-science companies from early to growth stages. The firm has a long track record of backing market-defining startups and emphasizes a "people-first" investment strategy, prioritizing founder quality and team excellence.

New York City, New York, U.S.

Tiger Global Management is a global investment firm that focuses on internet, software, consumer, and financial technology companies, employing both public equity and private equity strategies. It is known for its research-driven approach and long-term partnerships with high-quality, innovative companies.

Portola Valley, California, USA

G2 Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies at their inflection points to build a sustainable future, focusing on emerging technologies driving sustainable transformation across traditional industries. The firm supports entrepreneurs who are unlocking new paths to environmentally and socially responsible economic growth.

Bengaluru, India

Peak XV Partners is a leading venture capital and growth investing firm, formerly known as Sequoia Capital India & SEA, which became an independent entity in June 2023. It is dedicated to backing exceptional founders and impactful ideas across various stages, primarily in India and Southeast Asia.

New York City, New York

Lux Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging science and technology companies at the intersection of breakthrough science and transformational technology, often focusing on areas others deem too early or too hard. The firm partners with "iconoclastic inventors" to turn "sci-fi into sci-fact."

Singapore

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that backs exceptional founders from day zero, often before they have a team or idea, through pre-seed investments and ongoing support up to Series C funding. It operates a unique "Day Zero" model, combining elements of an incubator and accelerator, to help entrepreneurs find co-founders, validate ideas, and build companies.

Menlo Park, California, United States

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a prominent global multi-stage venture capital firm established in 2000, focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in technology. They are committed to supporting entrepreneurs from seed stage through growth stage, building enduring companies with a hands-on approach.

Mumbai, India

Blume Ventures is an India-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups, providing both funding and active mentorship to founders solving problems unique to India and those building for global markets. The firm is known for being among the first institutional investors in India to combine hands-on founder support with institutional-grade fund management.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Radical Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017, based in Toronto, Canada, that invests in entrepreneurs applying deep technology, particularly artificial intelligence, to transform massive industries. The firm focuses on backing research-driven founders advancing core AI models, enterprise infrastructure, and applied AI innovations.

Jackson, Wyoming / San Francisco, California

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to funding research and investing in technologies that drastically reduce CO2 emissions, remove atmospheric carbon, and develop solutions to mitigate global warming. The firm emphasizes market-driven solutions, backing companies that combine rigorous scientific research with ambitious goals to address environmental challenges.

New York, NY, USA

Energy Impact Partners (EIP) is a global investment firm focused on accelerating the world's transition to a more secure, sustainable, and equitable energy future. The firm partners with entrepreneurs and leading energy and industrial companies to advance innovation across the energy ecosystem.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Chiratae Ventures is an India-focused technology venture capital firm established in 2006, dedicated to investing in and supporting early-stage and growth-stage technology startups that leverage innovation to create population-scale solutions. The firm aims to back audacious entrepreneurs building global businesses from India across a diverse range of sectors.

London, UK

Notion Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European SaaS and cloud-based technology companies, providing financial backing, strategic guidance, and operational support to founders from inception through scaling. They are known for their deep operational expertise and their mission to help European tech companies achieve massive scale.

London, United Kingdom

Molten Ventures is a leading British venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies across Europe with global ambitions, operating with a patient evergreen capital model. The firm focuses on identifying transformative trends and next-generation companies, providing capital, expertise, and networks to fuel their growth.

Zurich, Switzerland

Lakestar is a leading pan-European venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, technology-enabled businesses founded by exceptional entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. The firm focuses on finding, funding, and growing scalable internet and technology companies across various stages.

New York City, NY

Coatue Management is a global investment firm founded in 1999, specializing in technology-focused investments across both public and private markets. The firm employs a data-driven approach to identify and support technology companies poised to transform global sectors, with a strong emphasis on AI-enabled platforms and infrastructure.

Menlo Park, California

Mayfield is a distinguished venture capital firm, founded in 1969, that specializes in early-stage investments in technology companies. The firm focuses on partnering with founders from inception to build iconic companies, emphasizing a "People First" philosophy.

Berlin, Germany

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage, pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2012 by former entrepreneurs and operators, focusing on backing ambitious founders from the earliest stages. The firm aims to support companies that will create lasting futures across various sectors.

New York City, USA

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. The firm focuses on finding and funding scalable companies, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success.

Cairo, Egypt

Sawari Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cairo, Egypt, that invests in knowledge and innovation-based technologies across North Africa, particularly in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. The firm aims to empower entrepreneurs in the region to create innovative solutions that will drive economic growth for years to come.

New York, NY, United States

Union Square Ventures (USV) is a New York City-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. The firm focuses on companies that leverage new behaviors, business models, and network effects at the edge of large markets undergoing technological and societal transformation.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Heartcore Capital is a European early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology companies aiming to create positive impacts, focusing on backing outlier founders from inception to Series A.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

General Catalyst is a global venture capital and transformation company that partners with founders from seed to growth stages. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and operational support to entrepreneurs building innovative technology companies and market-leading businesses.

Menlo Park, California, U.S.

Khosla Ventures is a private American venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It is renowned for backing early-stage, high-risk, and transformative companies that leverage technology to disrupt large markets and address significant global problems.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

ARCH Venture Partners is a leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in life sciences and technology, focusing on groundbreaking innovations that aim to transform healthcare and biotech. They are known for co-founding and building breakthrough deep science companies with university researchers and scientists, providing patient capital from concept stage through commercialization.

Palo Alto, California

DCVC is a deep tech venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs using computational approaches, especially AI and simulation, to address trillion-dollar problems in real-world sectors like climate, health, industrial transformation, and national security. The firm aims to create significant economic value while also improving the common good through breakthrough innovations.

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) is a climate-focused investment firm founded by Bill Gates in 2015, dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of clean technologies. It invests in science-driven companies with the potential to significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions across critical sectors, operating with a long-term investment horizon of 20 years.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Flagship Pioneering is a venture creation firm that invents, builds, funds, and scales platform companies with the potential to transform human health and sustainability. The firm operates through its Flagship Labs unit, where it originates new companies from scientific hypotheses, acting as a principal founder and financier.

Singapore, Singapore

Jungle Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore, founded in 2012, that focuses on early to growth-stage technology companies primarily in Southeast Asia and India. The firm partners with founders to build category-defining businesses across various sectors.

Beijing, China

HongShan (formerly Sequoia Capital China) is a global venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2005, which became an independent entity in 2023. It focuses on discovering and supporting entrepreneurs across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors, investing from seed to public equities.

Stockholm, Sweden

Creandum is a prominent European early-stage venture capital firm that specializes in identifying and nurturing innovative technology companies with global ambitions. They are known for backing exceptional founders and supporting them in building category-defining businesses.

San Francisco, California

Congruent Ventures is a leading early-stage climate technology venture capital firm dedicated to backing passionate founders building transformative solutions that decarbonize the global economy. The firm supports entrepreneurs innovating across hardware, software, and business models to create companies that achieve both commercial success and significant climate impact.

Singapore, Singapore

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India (VVSEAI) is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders to build innovative, transformative, and scalable businesses across Southeast Asia and India. As part of the Vertex global network of funds, it provides operational experience and access to capital, talent, partners, and customers to help portfolio companies grow into global businesses.

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Polychain Capital is a San Francisco-based investment firm specializing in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, managing actively managed portfolios of blockchain digital assets. Founded in 2016, the firm focuses on investing in protocols and infrastructure that build the foundational layer of the decentralized internet.

Menlo Park, California

Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders to build category-defining companies, providing capital, mentorship, and operational support.

San Francisco, CA

Salesforce Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Salesforce, established in 2009, focused on backing best-in-class entrepreneurs across the enterprise technology ecosystem. It provides patient capital, community, and privileged access to resources to help founders build industry-defining companies globally.

New York City, New York

Greycroft is an American venture capital firm founded in 2006, specializing in seed-to-growth investments in technology startups. They partner with founders in AI, software, sustainability, and consumer brands to create lasting impact.

Berlin, Germany

La Famiglia is a European seed and growth stage venture capital fund investing in technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. They are backed by a selection of world-leading entrepreneurs from various industries, providing early market access, impactful partnerships, and deep expertise for their portfolio companies.

London, United Kingdom

Highland Europe is a growth-stage venture capital firm that invests in rapidly growing European software and internet-enabled businesses, having spun off from Highland Capital Partners in 2012 to focus on European-rooted scale-ups.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hong Kong

Gobi Partners is a leading Pan-Asian venture capital firm founded in 2002, investing in early to growth-stage startups across emerging and underserved markets in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and adjacent growth markets. The firm manages nearly US$2 billion in assets and has invested in over 400 companies.

Palo Alto, California, United States

Social Capital is a technology holding company, initially established as a venture capital firm in 2011, that focuses on advancing humanity by solving complex problems through technology and entrepreneurship. The firm has transitioned to investing from its own permanent balance sheet, backing companies in sectors such as healthcare, education, and frontier technologies.

Munich, Germany

HV Capital is a leading European venture capital firm that invests in market-leading digital companies across Europe, supporting startups from seed stage through growth phases with long-term partnerships and operational involvement. The firm aims to back exceptional founders building market-leading digital companies, providing capital and conviction from the earliest stages through every phase of growth.

Paris, France

Singular is a next-generation, early-stage venture capital firm based in Europe, dedicated to empowering European founders with global aspirations across all sectors. They invest from Seed to Series B, with a particular emphasis on Series A companies, supporting creators who leverage frontier technology to deliver measurable disruption.

Stockholm, Sweden

EQT Ventures is a European venture capital firm that supports early-stage technology startups, primarily in Europe and the US. It aims to be an impactful partner to founders, offering capital, operational expertise, and strategic guidance.

Berlin, Germany

Visionaries Club is a venture capital firm founded in 2019, based in Berlin, Germany, that focuses on early-stage investments in European B2B technology startups. It distinguishes itself by providing capital and strategic support, leveraging a unique network of successful digital founders and family business entrepreneurs.

London, United Kingdom

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that partners with founders from Seed to Growth stages, focusing on building category-defining businesses across Europe and the US. The firm, founded in 1996, emphasizes a founder-first philosophy and has made over 250 investments.

London, United Kingdom

LocalGlobe is a distinguished UK-based early-stage venture capital firm that specializes in backing exceptional technology founders at the pre-seed and seed stages. It aims to be a long-term partner, providing capital and strategic guidance to help companies scale from inception.

London, United Kingdom

Felix Capital is a London-based venture capital firm for the creative class, operating at the intersection of technology and creativity, with a vision to empower new ways of living. The firm focuses on digital lifestyle, investing in consumer brands and related enabling-technologies.

Palo Alto, California, United States

True Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley that invests in technology startups, particularly those focused on AI-native solutions. The firm is known for its founder-centric approach, providing capital, strategic resources, and community support to entrepreneurs from pre-seed through Series A funding rounds.

San Francisco, California

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011, specializing in seed investments for high-potential software startups. The firm focuses on supporting founders from the earliest stages, offering operational guidance to help them build companies and navigate the venture landscape.

San Francisco, California, United States

Village Global is an early-stage venture capital firm that leverages a robust network of successful entrepreneurs and investors, including luminaries like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Reid Hoffman, to support and accelerate founders from the idea stage through seed-stage growth. The firm operates on a "connected capital" philosophy, providing not just funding but also unparalleled access to mentorship, strategic advice, and a strong founder community.

London, United Kingdom

Octopus Ventures is a leading European venture capital firm that invests in the people, ideas, and industries poised to change the world for the better. They are committed to backing early-stage companies with disruptive innovations that drive positive societal and environmental impact.

San Francisco, California

GV is a corporate venture capital firm of Alphabet Inc., founded in 2009. It provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies across various sectors, operating with an independent, financially driven approach.

San Francisco, California

Y Combinator is a leading startup accelerator that invests in early-stage companies, providing seed funding, mentorship, and access to a vast network to help them grow quickly and raise further capital. It runs intensive three-month programs twice a year, culminating in a Demo Day where startups present to investors.