Entities

New York attorney, angel investor, and founder of Cytowski & Partners. Advises startups, venture investors, and European founders entering the US market. An early investor in ElevenLabs.

Founder and CEO of Pershing Square, known for concentrated, research-driven investments and active engagement with portfolio companies. Previously co-founded Gotham Partners and worked in real-estate investment banking. Executive chairman of Howard Hughes Holdings and co-trustee of the Pershing Square Foundation, whose philanthropy includes health, medicine and neuroscience. Holds a Harvard MBA and undergraduate degree. In August 2026, announced plans for the Ackman Oxman Institute, focused on brain research, rehabilitation, BCI development and longevity, with venture funding for translating research into patient-facing technologies.

OpenAI co-founder and Head of AI Resilience at the OpenAI Foundation, appointed in March 2026. Works on AI safety, alignment and society's preparedness for advanced AI. Previously led OpenAI teams working on robotics, code generation, language models and human data, with contributions to Codex, GPT-4 and reasoning models. Earned a PhD at NYU with Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.

CEO and co-founder of Flourish, developing energy-efficient AI, and a venture partner at Lux Capital. A computational neuroscientist with a Columbia PhD, he co-founded CTRL-labs, acquired by Meta in 2019, and led research on non-invasive neuromotor interfaces using surface EMG. Earlier initiated Microsoft's Internet Explorer project and served as Openwave CTO. Co-author of the 2025 Nature paper on generic neuromotor interfaces for human-computer interaction; joined Columbia's board of trustees in September 2026.

Co-founder and Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist at Alphabet, as listed on Google's current author profile. AI researcher with a background in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, including research on memory and imagination and postdoctoral work at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Co-led the development of AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. DeepMind's work includes AlphaGo and neuroscience-inspired machine learning.

A Ukrainian-American early-stage venture firm founded in 2021 that invests $50,000–$200,000 in Ukrainian and CEE-founded startups expanding into US and EU markets.

Zero Prime Ventures is a pre-seed/seed venture capital fund that writes first checks into deeply technical engineer-founders building the infrastructure, platforms, and applications behind AI and data technologies. Founded by Pete Soderling, the firm is based in San Francisco and backs day-zero engineer-led startups.

The venture arm associated with XTX Markets, backing technical founders from seed through Series B and beyond across AI infrastructure, healthcare, enterprise software, financial markets and physical-world applications.

A London-based, cross-Atlantic climate and deep-tech venture firm backing pre-seed through Series A founders who combine AI, hardware, software and frontier science to rebuild physical systems.

An early-stage venture firm founded by Tomasz Tunguz that concentrates on AI, modern data infrastructure and Web3 businesses shaped by technological discontinuities.

Taiwania Capital is a Taiwanese venture capital firm founded in 2017 by the National Development Fund of the Executive Yuan and private enterprises. It manages multiple sector-focused funds investing in early to growth-stage technology and biotech startups across Taiwan, the U.S., Japan, and Southeast Asia.

A founders-for-founders early-stage technology fund for the Adria region, investing across B2B SaaS, marketplaces, consumer apps and innovative direct-to-consumer products.

A San Francisco venture and advisory firm founded in 2018 for applied AI, investing from core compute infrastructure through vertical AI experiences at seed and Series A.

A London AI research lab and venture fund that uses systematic strategies to invest $100,000–$200,000 in pre-seed and seed companies across Europe and North America.

A Europe-rooted deep-tech firm founded by Rick Hao that backs a deliberately concentrated portfolio from day zero across batteries, AI, robotics, materials, novel computing and semiconductors.

A founder-led early-stage investor backing AI-native European B2B and B2B2C teams, with first checks up to $500,000 and a positive bias toward CEE founders.

An attribution label used for Micah Smurthwaite's investing activity. Signal currently lists him as a Next47 partner; public 2024 materials also identify him as a Pipeline Ventures partner.

A European pre-seed investor-operator led by Raph G. that focuses on everyday finance and adjacent trust-sensitive categories while providing strategic communications support.

A Prague- and Luxembourg-based pre-seed and seed investor, formerly Nation 1 VC, focused mainly on technology startups in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and wider CEE.

A Warsaw seed-stage venture firm backing European technologies in energy, industry and resilience, generally investing €0.5M–€2M initially.

A New York growth investor founded in 2021 that provides $10M–$75M of flexible capital plus operational and M&A support to software, fintech, digital-infrastructure, healthcare-IT and services companies.

A London early-stage venture firm founded in 2015 that makes high-conviction pre-seed and seed investments and gives backed founders a share of the fund's carry through its equitable-venture model.

A Bristol-based venture investor formed after PA Consulting demerged its venture arm in 2008, focused on commercializing intellectual property and technology businesses.

JIMCO (Jameel Investment Management Company) is the global investment arm of the Jameel Family, investing private capital to accelerate innovation across technology, life sciences, and strategic assets. It operates through dedicated funds including the JIMCO Technology Fund and JIMCO Life Sciences Fund, backing early-stage and breakthrough ventures worldwide.

IP Group plc is a British-based early-stage venture capital firm that commercializes intellectual property originating from universities and research institutions. It invests in deep technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

Seed investor focused on hard technology and hard sectors including manufacturing, robotics, chips, biotechnology, climate, energy, defence, aerospace and hardware products.

FORWARD.one is a European venture capital firm dedicated to industrial technology, founded in 2017 and based in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. The firm invests in early-stage companies in semiconductors, climate tech, robotics, and hardware, combining entrepreneurial, engineering, and financial expertise to turn breakthrough technologies into market leaders.

Ukraine-born early-stage venture firm investing in globally ambitious teams with Ukrainian roots, focused on AI, SaaS, marketplaces, fintech and healthcare.

Palo Alto early-stage venture firm investing in global AI and cybersecurity founders.

Deep-tech investor backing AI, robotics, defence technology, cybersecurity and industrial software companies from seed through Series B worldwide.

Cortical Ventures is an AI-focused venture capital firm founded in 2021 by operators with deep AI/ML experience. It invents, incubates, and invests in early-stage companies driving the AI revolution, with emphasis on Physical AI, production-ready AI systems, and AI for Good.

Contrarian Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focusing on investments in emerging technologies.

Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (Bosch Ventures) is the corporate venture capital arm of the Bosch Group, investing in innovative deep-tech startups worldwide in areas such as AI, energy efficiency, electrification, and healthcare systems. Its sixth fund of approximately €250 million ($270 million) supports early-stage and scaleup deeptech firms globally.

Early-stage Web3 venture fund investing in decentralized crypto networks, infrastructure, DeFi, and consumer applications.

blisce/ is a B Corp certified venture capital firm founded by Alexandre Mars, investing from early to IPO across the US and Europe. Headquartered in Paris and New York, it backs founders reshaping industries with missions that matter, with a focus on consumer technology, climate, and impact-driven companies.

Operator-led, remote-first venture fund backing global pre-seed and seed deep-technology teams.

Early-stage venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies and long-duration founder partnerships.

Globally focused venture fund making concentrated seed-to-growth investments with flexible checks of $1 million to $30 million.

Altos Ventures Management, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded in 1996 that partners with early- to growth-stage technology companies in consumer and enterprise sectors. In November 2024 the firm closed its latest fund at $500 million—its largest single fund to date—while managing more than $8 billion in total regulatory assets under management across all funds.

Venture capital firm investing exclusively in AI-first companies across frontier AI, infrastructure, autonomy, defense technology, and TechBio.

3VC is a European venture capital group that invests in a carefully handpicked group of European technology startups with global ambition. Focusing on Series A, 3VC’s entrepreneurial team provides tireless support and access to an international co-investment network of VC partners. 3VC’s backs category-defining companies like Assaia, Kaia Health,Lokalise, Picsart, Storyblok, and Tatum.

A global technology investment platform founded in 1982 with seed, venture, Africa, growth and impact strategies and offices in Paris, Berlin, Dakar, Milan and San Francisco.

Early-stage venture firm led by AI practitioners and focused on companies developing industry-changing artificial intelligence.

Venture investor backing early-stage companies in finance, industry and computing infrastructure.

6 Degrees Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in London and Antwerp, investing in startups from Seed to Series B across Fintech, Enterprise Software, and AI. The firm partners with outlier founders, providing capital and hands-on strategic support.

ETF Partners is a London-based venture capital firm investing in cutting-edge companies across Europe that address sustainability and climate challenges through innovation. The firm's latest fund closed at €285 million in May 2024.

S32 (formerly Section 32) is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Google Ventures founder Bill Maris. The firm invests across the frontiers of technology including AI, computational biology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software, from seed to growth stages.

Silicon Badia is a global venture capital firm that partners with passionate, bold entrepreneurs to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Founded in 2012, the firm has invested in over 100 technology startups across more than 15 industries, with offices in New York and the Middle East.

BNVT Capital is a London-based global venture capital firm founded in 2023 by investors previously at the Gates Foundation, Hedosophia, and Goldman Sachs. It invests in AI-first and technology-driven companies solving major global challenges, guided by a 'Benevolent Disruption' thesis.

Force Over Mass Capital (FOM/FOMCAP) is an FCA-regulated venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in London. The firm applies a data-driven approach to invest in early-stage B2B technology companies across the UK and Europe, with a focus on AI, fintech, SaaS, and Industry 4.0.

Mercuri is an early-stage venture capital fund and first-cheque investor leading pre-seed and seed funding rounds for UK media technology and AI companies. The firm was formerly known as GMG Ventures and is a certified B Corp based in London.

Private venture investment vehicle associated with a Seattle address; public identity and team disclosure are limited.

A first-check venture firm founded by Alexander Lange in 2019 that backs hard technologies and hard-to-underwrite markets, especially compute, cryptography, robotics, defense and space, with initial checks generally from $0.5M to $2M.

Samsung Catalyst Fund is Samsung Electronics' multi-stage evergreen venture capital fund that invests in deep-tech infrastructure, AI, and data-enabled platforms. It invests globally with offices in San Jose, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Paris.

Vsquared Ventures is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on deep tech across Europe. The firm invests from pre-seed to Series A in companies tackling society's most pressing challenges, with emphasis on AI, energy transition, new computing, space, robotics, and techbio.

Audacious Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Nakul Mandan, based in San Francisco. The firm partners with ambitious technology founders at the pre-seed and seed stages, offering hands-on operational support including recruiting and go-to-market assistance.

Entourage is a Ghent-based early-stage VC firm and venture studio founded in 2024 by Showpad co-founder Pieterjan Bouten. It backs and builds high-growth B2B SaaS and software companies, operating through Entourage Capital for direct investments and Entourage Studio for company building.

Future Energy Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm investing in digital and asset-light energy technologies to accelerate the global energy transition. It was formed in 2020 after the merger of E.ON and Innogy, combining both companies' CVC portfolios into an independent VC platform.

ICONIQ Capital is a hybrid family office and global investment firm headquartered in San Francisco, managing over $100B in assets under management. It provides wealth management, private equity, venture capital, growth equity, real estate, and philanthropic services, with its ICONIQ Growth platform investing in technology companies from product-market fit through IPO and beyond.

An inception-stage venture firm launched in 2024 that backs deeply technical founders, often with research roots, turning computing breakthroughs into companies.

Essence VC is an engineer-first, early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle, founded by Timothy Chen in 2019. The firm invests in deeply technical founders building developer tools, data infrastructure, and AI at the pre-seed and seed stages.

Moonfire Ventures is a London-based, data-driven early-stage venture capital firm founded by former Atomico co-founder Mattias Ljungman. The firm uses proprietary AI models and machine-learning technology to identify and back pre-seed and seed-stage startups across Europe in sectors including AI, Web3, health, work, finance, and gaming.

Transatlantic venture firm investing in physical AI, applied AI for complex industries, and AI infrastructure from inception through early growth.

Eclipse was founded with a mission to power the Industrial Evolution. Since 2015, we’ve helped entrepreneurs build exceptional companies that make physical industries more efficient, resilient, and profitable.

Telescope Partners is a thesis-driven, early growth venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building enterprise software companies. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the firm partners with B2B software companies that are post product-market fit.

Root Ventures is a San Francisco-based deep-tech seed venture capital firm run by engineers, for engineers. The firm specializes in leading initial funding rounds for technical founders tackling hard problems in areas such as applied AI, robotics, hardware, developer tools, and climate tech.

Cantos is a pre-seed and seed venture capital firm that backs deeply technical founders building 'near frontier' companies across climate, biotech, aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing. The firm provides initial capital and ongoing counsel to founders tackling critical infrastructure and existential challenges.

Movens Capital is a Warsaw-based multi-stage venture capital fund investing €0.25–3M in CEE (and CEE diaspora) tech companies with global potential. Founded in 2018, it focuses on AI, fintech, climate tech, enterprise software, healthcare, and e-commerce infrastructure.

PortfoLion Capital Partners is a Budapest-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2010 as the investment arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank. It manages $800M+ across multiple funds, investing from pre-seed through growth and buyout, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and its diaspora.

Triple Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Triple Point Group, a London-based investment manager founded in 2004. Launched in 2018, it invests in early-stage B2B software businesses across sectors including fintech, data, AI, healthcare, vertical SaaS, and energy.

Blue Lion Global is a tech venture capital fund backing founders tackling society's largest problems, with a focus on climate, health, and inclusive finance. The firm invests at the pre-seed to Series A stages across the US and Europe.

Ibex Investors is a multi-strategy investment firm based in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2003, with over $1B in assets under management. The firm invests in both public and privately held companies from pre-seed through IPO across enterprise software, cybersecurity, mobility, logistics, and manufacturing, with geographic focus on Israel and thematic focus on mobility.

MMC Ventures is a research-led venture capital firm based in London, investing in early-stage, high-growth UK technology companies at Seed and Series A. The firm focuses on enterprise AI, fintech, data-driven health, and cloud & data infrastructure.

Decibel is an early-stage venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco, investing in essential infrastructure software used by developers, data engineers, and cybersecurity teams. The firm is based in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 2019 by Jon Sakoda.

Elaia is a leading European full-stack venture capital firm specializing in digital and deep tech, headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 2002, it partners with ambitious B2B technology entrepreneurs from pre-seed to Series B, focusing on AI, cybersecurity, techbio, and industrial innovation.

Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2018 by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. The firm leads seed rounds in enterprise software startups, with a focus on infrastructure, SaaS, fintech, and AI, providing hands-on operational support to help founders achieve product-market fit.

Venture Guides is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston that invests in and actively guides founders of infrastructure software, cloud, data, and security technology startups. The firm was founded by the former infrastructure software team at Bain Capital Ventures and employs a team-based, hands-on investing approach.

Zetta Venture Partners is the first venture firm exclusively focused on AI-native startups. It provides zero-to-one capital and hands-on support for builders of AI-native applications, infrastructure, and developer tools, leading pre-seed and seed rounds with $1-5M checks in B2B companies.

Catapult Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based seed-stage venture capital firm investing in deep-tech startups at the intersection of hardware, embedded systems, and software. Founded in 2018 by Darren Liccardo and Rouz Jazayeri, the firm focuses on AI, automation, robotics, and IoT across automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, and industrial sectors.

Osage University Partners (OUP) is a venture capital firm that invests in science-driven startups emerging from the world's leading research labs and innovation ecosystems. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, OUP manages over $800 million and has invested in more than 150 life science and technology startups.

First Round Capital is a venture capital firm willing to invest in pre-revenue companies, often providing a company's first outside capital. The partners look to take an active role in most of the companies they invest in. First Round Capital invests nationally and has additional offices in San Francisco and New York. The firm's typical initial investment is around $500,000. First Round Capital has coordinated the first ever VC-sponsored Exchange Fund. This fund allows qualified First Round Capital entrepreneurs to contribute a small piece of the stock they own in their company and share in the performance of all the other companies in the fund. Members of the First Round Capital Community have raised over $2.5 billion in follow-on capital to date. First Rounds's $20 million in total initial investments (in those companies that have been in the portfolio for over a year) have been followed by $850 million in financing from later-stage venture firms - a roughly 36-1 ratio.

HV Capital is one of Europe's most prominent multistage venture capital firms, backing founders from first check to growth across the continent. Founded in 2000 and formerly known as Holtzbrinck Ventures, the firm invests across consumer internet, enterprise software, fintech, deep tech, and AI. Its latest fund, Fund IX, closed at €710 million.

Amadeus Capital is a global technology investor that invests in technology companies at all stages, from seed to venture buyout; they also buy stakes from other investors or founders, to ensure that companies and entrepreneurs have the runway they need to succeed. They invest in a broad variety of sectors including enterprise and infrastructuresoftware, consumer and business services, medical technology and healthcare IT, and cleantech and resource efficiency. It has the imagination to see where new businesses can be created and the technical insight, operational experience and global network to help entrepreneurs make their vision a reality. The Company was founded in 1997 and since has backed more than 130 companies and raised over $1bn for investment.

Radical Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm singularly focused on artificial intelligence, backing founders leveraging AI to transform industries. Founded in 2017, it invests in early-stage and growth-stage AI startups across Canada, the US, and internationally.

Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.

Flex Capital is a seed-stage venture firm run by the founding CEOs of LiveRamp, BrightRoll, Lemonaid Health, SafeGraph, and Pipedream. The firm invests in bold, technical teams at the pre-seed and seed stages with pro-founder governance terms.

boldstart ventures is a day one partner and true believer for enterprise infrastructure and SaaS founders. boldstart is often the first investor working closely with technical founders at company formation and helps accelerate their path to product market fit. Areas of focus include developer first, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SaaS. Notable first check investments include Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, Superhuman, Front, and Security Scorecard. Founding partner Ed Sim has over 24 years of experience as a first round investor in companies like LivePerson (LPSN), Greenplum (Pivotal Software), and GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix).

KAYA is an early-stage VC fund with roots in CEE, investing in intrepid founders across Europe since 2010.

Fly Ventures is a European first-check venture capital firm based in Berlin, investing from day zero to Seed in technical founders building AI, deep tech, infrastructure, robotics, and developer tools companies. Founded in 2015, the firm typically writes initial cheques of €1–4 million in rounds of €2–10 million.

Anthropic builds Claude, a family of frontier AI models used by consumers, developers, and enterprises, and does the underlying research on making highly capable systems interpretable, reliable, and steerable.

CIV is a venture capital firm that backs and builds transformative technology companies reshaping critical industries, including energy transition, advanced manufacturing, industrial automation, and digital infrastructure. Founded by Patrick Maloney, Jeff Rosenthal, and Abhijoy Mitra, CIV operates from Venice Beach, California and closed its inaugural fund (CIV Fund One) at over $210 million.

Garuda Ventures is a B2B-focused, pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Orinda, California. The firm leads a founder's initial round of financing, investing $500K to $1.5M in areas including intelligent applications, commerce infrastructure, the new perimeter, and climate.

10x Founders is a network-driven European early-stage venture capital firm backed by over 200 entrepreneurs and angels. Based in Munich, it employs an 'Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur' investment platform supporting ambitious founders building category-leading companies, with a focus on Europe and the US.

Point Nine is a thesis-driven early-stage venture capital firm. We’re a small equal partnership, based in Europe, investing globally in AI for the digital, physical and biological world. At any given time, each of our four partners works closely with 6-8 companies. We invest $1-10 million per company, working alongside exceptional founders to accelerate their learning, provide unfair shortcuts, and help them realize their potential. Since 2008 the partnership has invested in 10-12 early-stage startups per year; 17 of them have surpassed $100M ARR. Notable early bets include Algolia, Chainalysis, Clio, Contentful, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, Factorial, Loom, Revolut, Typeform and Zendesk.

Expeditions is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in defence and dual-use deep tech companies across Europe. Backed by investors including BAE Systems and the NATO Innovation Fund, it focuses on cybersecurity, AI, quantum, autonomy, and space technologies.

Primary Venture Partners (formerly High Peaks Venture Partners) is a New York-based venture capital firm making seed and Series A investments in industry-transforming information technology companies, with a focus on B2B SaaS and e-commerce.

Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs. The firm is headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, but makes investments all over the world. With $50M under management, the fund is focused on East coast investments. Founder Collective is industry agnostic, but the firm prefers companies that have an information technology component.

TDK Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of TDK Corporation, investing globally in early-stage deeptech startups from Seed to Series B. Its latest fund, Fund 3, is a $150 million commitment focused on energy, computing, health, agriculture, mobility, robotics, industrial systems, and advanced materials.

The General Partnership (TheGP) is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that combines capital investment with a 'sweat equity' model, embedding a team of 25+ full-time engineers, recruiters, designers, and sales leaders into portfolio companies. The firm invests at the formation (pre-seed/seed) and breakout (series A) stages across enterprise software, fintech, developer tools, cybersecurity, healthcare, and AI.

Faber is a Lisbon-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in teams transforming the world with frontier technology, with a focus on deep tech across AI/ML, climate and ocean tech, robotics, and biotech. The firm targets pre-seed and seed-stage startups across Southern Europe.

RTP Global is a global, early-stage venture capital firm backing ambitious founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works. Founded in 2000 by Leonid Boguslavsky as ru-Net, the firm has backed generational companies including Datadog, Delivery Hero, and Cred.

Playground is an early-stage investment firm that helps old and new investors and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of bits, atoms, and AI. It focuses on investment, innovation, connected hardware, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Playground was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

468 Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in category-defining technology companies from day zero through Series B. The firm focuses on AI & automation, enterprise software, energy transition, and consumer technology across Europe and the United States. In January 2022, 468 Capital closed its second fund at approximately $400 million, making it one of the largest European seed-stage funds.

Portfolio Ventures is a London-based institutional angel fund that invests £100k–£500k cheques in UK-based Fintech, Insurtech, B2B SaaS, and Enterprise Software companies from pre-seed to Series A. The firm operates the PV Angel Fund, backed by a community of leading UK angels, founders, and executives who co-invest alongside the fund.

Acurio Ventures is a Bilbao-based European early-stage venture capital firm that invests in seed and Series A technology startups across Europe, with a focus on marketplace, subscription, and e-commerce business models. Formerly known as All Iron Ventures, the firm rebranded in 2024 and closed its third fund at €150M (~$166M).

NAP (formerly Cavalry Ventures) is a Berlin-based pre-seed and seed venture capital firm investing in European technology companies, with a focus on enterprise tech, advanced manufacturing, energy transition, and applied AI. The firm rebranded from Cavalry Ventures to NAP in February 2025.

Systemiq Capital is a London-based climate-tech venture firm investing from late seed to Series A/B rounds across the UK, Europe and the US. It backs founders redefining the physical economy in areas including electrification, decoding nature, and applied AI, connecting them with a network of global business leaders, policymakers, and climate experts.

AlbionVC is a UK-based venture capital firm and the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group LLP. Founded in 1996 and based in London, it backs early-stage founders across deeptech, health, fintech, and enterprise software, managing approximately £1 billion in venture funds.

Amplify Partners is an early-stage venture capital fund that backs technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar disruption it refers to as Infrastructure 2.0. The firm doesn't work with consumer internet or cleantech companies. Amplify is not a group of casual angel investors, and it is not a growth equity firm. The firm announced the close of its first fund (March 2014), Amplify Partners L.P., at $49,100,000 of committed capital. Amplify Partners focuses on initial investments ranging from $50,000 to $1.5 million and looks to support its entrepreneurs through multiple rounds of funding.

Credo Ventures is a venture capital company focused on early stage investments in Central and Eastern Europe. It is on a mission to identify and back the most interesting early stage companies in the region, support them in their growth plans (including expansion to the U.S. / global market), and help to achieve their objectives. The companyis looking for opportunities to invest in high-growth potential companies with international ambitions and competence to execute and deliver. Credo's industry focus is IT, Internet, and health.

Chemistry is a $350M early-stage venture firm founded by Mark Goldberg, Kristina Shen, and Ethan Kurzweil. It leads investments in standout software companies from Seed through Series A, backing founders who blend technical expertise with commercial instincts.

Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC) is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Clavier. It invests early in AI-native and frontier-technology companies, typically leading seed rounds with an initial $3M-$5M check.

Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The firm backs technology companies across all growth and development phases, with a focus on AI, deep tech, enterprise software, fintech, and healthcare, managing €2.5 billion in assets under management.

Felix Capital is a venture capital firm for the creative class, operating at the intersection of technology and creativity. Felix Capital focuses on digital lifestyle, investing in authentic brands, platforms and related enabling software technologies. Felix Capital's mission is to support entrepreneurs with big ideas, to help them buildstrong category-leading companies that stand out and that move the world forward. The ambition to partner with the best entrepreneurs, the creative agents of change of digital lifestyle.

Northzone is a venture capital fund with a perspective shaped by lives as entrepreneurs. Established in 1996, they have raised over €1.5 billion in funds and partnered with the founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, Hopin, and hundreds of others to build category-defining businesses.The firm has offices across the Nordics, London, and NewYork, it works around the clock to connect its companies with customers, business partners, and key talent on a truly international scale.

Redalpine is a pan-European venture capital firm with Swiss roots, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Zurich. It invests at the intersection of software and science, targeting companies from seed through growth stages across sectors including AI, biotech, fintech, energy, and health.

Felicis Ventures combines Angel investing, active mentoring and advisory services to offer a more beneficial approach for the entrepreneur, rewarding the risk while providing more than just capital. The firm's focus is mainly on early stage, consumer internet start-ups. The firm also plans to pursue investment opportunities in Healthcare IT, Energy, and Education as well. Felicis Ventures typically makes investments in the $100,000 to $1 million range and the majority of the firm's portfolio companies are based in the Bay area, although the firm's portfolio represents 23 different nationalities from all continents (Antarctica excluded) and has invested in companies operating in 6 countries other than the United States (Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Israel, Finland and Germany). Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, he was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific. Felicis Ventures has nearly $200M in total committed assets: $4.5M angel fund in 2006, $41M super-angel fund raised in 2010 and $70M boutique VC fund raised in 2012. August of 2014 Felicis raised $96M for its fourth fund. Since its inception in 2006, Felicis has backed over 120 technology companies, 50 of which have been acquired or gone public.

Maniv Mobility is helping to expedite the new age of advanced transportation technology, including safety, business model innovation, and vehicle autonomy ("driverless cars"). They believe that in the 21st century, the public should not have to endure the daily tragedy of automotive fatalities, the frustration and productivity loss oftraffic congestion, and the polluted air and public space that slow-moving and parked cars bring to their urban centers. In the last 20 years technology has made information and communication ubiquitous and close to free. In the next 20 it will do the same for mobility. They work with start-up companies, entrepreneurs, financiers and others to overcome the hurdles that will herald a grand new age.

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Frontline Ventures is a transatlantic venture capital firm that backs globally ambitious B2B software companies across Europe and the US. It operates a dual-fund strategy with Frontline Seed (early-stage in Europe) and Frontline Growth (US-Europe expansion at Series B–D stage).

Founded in 2014, Kindred Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund led by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, and is based in San Francisco, California. Collectively as a team, we have invested in over 100 companies in our careers, and have served as founders, early employees, and advisors in several pioneering technology startups.

Notion Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2009, investing in early-stage European B2B SaaS, cloud, and AI-native business software companies, with a growth fund for later-stage follow-ons. The firm closed its latest fund, Growth Opportunities Fund III, at $130M (€114M) in 2025, bringing total assets under management to over $1bn across all funds.

VentureFriends is an early-stage European venture capital firm founded in 2016 by ex-founders and operators, headquartered in Athens, Greece. The firm invests at the pre-seed and seed stages across Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, with sector focus on fintech, B2B SaaS, B2C, AI, cybersecurity, proptech, and climate tech.

White Star Capital is a global multi-stage technology venture capital firm that backs exceptional entrepreneurs building ambitious, international businesses. The firm's flagship Early Growth Fund (Fund III, $360M) invests in Series A and B rounds, and it also operates a Digital Asset Fund and a newly launched North American Seed Fund. Sector focus includes AI, fintech, digital health, foodtech, future of work, industrial technologies, mobility, and crypto/blockchain.

A multi-stage venture and growth equity investment firm backing companies across enterprise, consumer and healthcare sectors.

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology withunique compute and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.

Inovia Capital is a full stack venture firm that invests in passionate tech founders with global ambitions. With over US $1B across early and growth stage funds, Inovia offers capital, coaching, and access to talent in the most valuable ecosystems in Canada, the US, and Europe. Inovia invests in applied services and infrastructure platforms focusedon transforming complex legacy industries, such as financial services, healthcare, commerce, transportation, travel, and others.

HCVC (formerly known as Hardware Club) is a community-based early-stage venture capital firm backing hardtech and deep tech founders across Europe and North America. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Paris, the firm invests from pre-seed to Series A in sectors including robotics, AI, biotech, climate, and space.

Lakestar is a European venture capital firm that invests in visionary tech entrepreneurs from seed to growth stage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Zurich, the firm focuses on deep tech, AI, healthcare, and fintech, with a commitment to Europe's digital sovereignty and innovation ecosystem.

Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Stockholm, with offices in Berlin, London, and San Francisco. The firm primarily invests at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages in technology-driven companies across sectors including AI, fintech, consumer, climate tech, and SaaS. Notable investments include Spotify, Klarna, and Lovable.

Programmer, essayist and investor who co-founded Y Combinator with Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. Previously co-founded Viaweb, acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Writes extensively about startups, entrepreneurship and programming at paulgraham.com; author of Hackers & Painters and books on Lisp, and creator of the Bel programming language. Holds a Harvard PhD in computer science.

A London- and San Francisco-based venture firm with a European-focused seed fund and a transatlantic growth fund investing across AI, science, industry, deep tech and health.

Mission-driven early-stage venture firm founded by Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko, investing in frontier technologies and new industries.

Index Ventures is a transatlantic venture capital firm investing from seed through growth.

OpenAI develops artificial general intelligence products including ChatGPT and the GPT model family. Khosla Ventures was the first venture firm to invest, writing a $50 million check around the 2019 OpenAI LP formation, and later raised a $405 million SPV around OpenAI's October 2024 financing.

Work-Bench is a New York City-based enterprise venture capital firm that leads Seed rounds in enterprise software, SaaS, and infrastructure startups. The firm provides founders with go-to-market support, corporate engagement, and community to help scale enterprise deals.

Upfront Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded in 1996 (formerly GRP Partners) that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests roughly half its capital in Southern California, with the balance across the US, Europe, India, and Israel.

Seraphim Space is the world's leading specialist investor in SpaceTech, managing venture capital funds, a publicly listed investment trust, and an accelerator programme. Headquartered in London, it invests across the innovation lifecycle from early-stage development through to IPO.

Speedinvest is a Vienna-based European venture capital firm founded in 2011, investing from pre-seed through growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO) across Deep Tech, B2B AI & Infra, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer, and Climate Tech & Industrial Tech. The firm closed its latest fund, Speedinvest 4, at €350 million (~$380M) in January 2024.

OTB Ventures is a pan-European venture capital firm focused on DeepTech startups, investing primarily at the late Seed and Series A stages. Its key verticals include SpaceTech, Enterprise Automation & AI, Cybersecurity, and FinTech Infrastructure.

Planet A is a Berlin-based, science-driven green tech venture capital firm investing in early-stage European startups focused on climate mitigation, resource savings, biodiversity protection, and waste reduction. The firm utilizes an in-house science team to conduct life cycle assessments before making investment decisions.

Project A Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012, investing in European tech startups from pre-seed and seed stages. The firm combines financial investment with operational support through its in-house studio model, focusing on areas such as fintech, defense, AI, and supply chain. Its fifth fund, closed in June 2025, raised €325 million ($373 million), bringing total assets under management to €1.2 billion.

We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs in the US and India. Our team comprises ex-entrepreneurs who are strong “bottom-up” thinkers and “sleeves rolled up” operators. With decades of experience in building and funding globally leading companies, we manage more than USD 1 billion across funds. Our footprint in world’s two leading marketspositions us uniquely with global insights and ability to serve entrepreneurs.

IQ Capital is a dedicated European deep tech venture capital firm, built on the conviction that frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. The firm leads rounds at pre-Seed to Series A and, through its growth opportunity funds, can follow-on with up to $40m per company. Founded in Cambridge in 2007, IQ Capital now operates from London with additional offices in Cambridge and Amsterdam.

Look AI Ventures (LAIV) is the first investment fund in the Czech Republic focusing exclusively on early-stage AI startups worldwide. It invests tickets of up to €250K with follow-up of up to €1M in pre-seed and seed rounds.

Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin that come from science, and business in deep tech companies. The firm particularly invests across Europe into founders building high potential startups that specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning, blockchain,cybersecurity, big data, analytics, or other industries.

HOF Capital is a venture capital firm backed by 70 of the world’s most influential families and organizations. We partner with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO, helping them build the next generation of leading technology companies.

Hummingbird Ventures is a venture capital partner for extraordinary entrepreneurs building fast-growth tech companies. Hummingbird Ventures teamed up with transformative companies, including Deliveroo, Showpad, Kraken, Peak Games, Clear2pay, Amplidata, Gram Games, Shutl and many others. With a presence in London, Ghent and Istanbul, Hummingbirdprovides swift access to the operational resources and advice needed to build the tech companies of tomorrow.

Curiosity VC is a community-driven early-stage venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, founded in 2021 by Herman Kienhuis and Maurice Beckand Verwée. It invests in AI-native B2B software companies across the Benelux, Nordics, and Baltics, backing founders at the pre-seed and seed stages across verticals including finance, legal, real estate, energy, and cybersecurity.

Early-stage venture firm investing in European semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials.

Breega is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by former entrepreneurs. It backs bold founders from pre-Seed to Series A+ in Digital, Climate, and Deep Tech across Europe and Africa, providing both capital and operational scaling expertise.

Celesta Capital is a global deep tech venture capital firm that invests in companies at the forefront of science and engineering, targeting technologies that enable mass adoption of emerging tech, improve health outcomes, and transform large industries. Formerly known as Walden Riverwood Ventures (WRVI Capital), the firm was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Silicon Valley.

Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm backing inception-stage, deep-technology enterprise founders from Europe and Israel with global (primarily US) go-to-market ambitions. Founded in 2018 by Gil Dibner, the firm is headquartered in London with an outpost in Tel Aviv.

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. It partners with technology founders at Series A and beyond with a particular focus on Europe, leveraging deep operational experience to supercharge their growth. The company's team of founders, investors, and operational leadershave been responsible for global expansion, hiring, and marketing at companies from Skype, Google, and Twitter to Uber and Spotify. It specializes in seed, startup, Series A, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, and growth capital investments. Atomico was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in London, England.

European early-stage venture firm backed by a community of angel investors and investing primarily at pre-seed and seed, with a later-stage direct-investment track.

Balderton is Europe’s leading venture capital investor, focused exclusively on European founded technology companies. We support companies from Seed to Exit. We have a track-record of backing breakthrough companies ranging from MySQL to Betfair, and The Hut Group to Yoox Net-a-Porter. Companies in the Balderton portfolio take advantage of Balderton's network of globally-connected executives, who have real-world experience of founding and building technology companies from startup to IPO; Balderton's CEO Collective; and the firm's platform of legal, talent and marketing services. Founders and entrepreneurs seeking investment should reach out directly to a member of the Balderton investment team.

Basis Set Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on scaling human potential with artificial intelligence. It focuses on seed and Series A investments, writing checks typically between $1 million and $3 million. The firm invests in enterprise companies, concentrating on scalable infrastructure, collaboration tools, automated workflows,and autonomous machines. Basis Set Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Day One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Masha Bucher in 2018, based in San Francisco. The firm backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications, combining investment with hands-on PR and storytelling support to accelerate mass adoption of technologies.

Backed VC is a human-centric European seed-stage venture capital firm based in London, investing in brave founders building generation-defining frontier technology companies. Founded in 2016 by Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, the firm focuses on AI-native therapeutics, blockchain and banking infrastructure, and manufacturing automation.

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business. The company brings more than three decades of experience in building and supporting companies. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship andbusiness 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. Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded it in Palo Alto, California in 1983.

Afore Capital is a $47 million fund co-founded by Anamitra Banerji & Gaurav Jain to support product-oriented founders at the very earliest stage (pre-seed). Our sweet spot is the $500K-$1.5M round, where we can lead the pre-seed round as an institutional investor alongside high value angels. At Afore, we believe that before there's a company, before there's a business, there's a product founder leading by product. The products are often raw, sometimes just rough concepts requiring a lot of imagination. They are pre-traction and pre-obvious. But they come from founders with non-obvious insights and infectious ambitions. We started Afore to back these founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively, on day zero of their journey. We bring with us 16 years of product experience and 7 years of institutional investing experience.

In 2009, Marc Andreessen (Netscape Co-Founder) and Ben Horowitz launched venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and its first fund at $300 million. Andreessen Horowitz will fund technology start-ups with investments ranging from $50,000 to $50 million. The partners will focus on investments in the following industries: consumer Internet, business Internet (cloud computing, 'software as a service'), mobile software and services, software-powered consumer electronics, infrastructure and applications software, networking, storage, databases, and other back-end systems. The firm will not consider investments in the following domains: 'clean,' 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug design, medical devices), nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electric cars, rocket ships, and space elevators. Andreessen Horowitz is primarily, but not entirely, focused on investing in Silicon Valley firms. The firm closed Andreessen Horowitz Fund V at $1.5 billion in June of 2016.

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The six equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Matt Cohler, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Mitch Lasky, Eric Vishria, and Scott Belsky. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion. Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Bessemer Venture Partners is a $4B venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups around the world, from seed stage to growth. Their partners help founders lay enduring foundations to create companies that matter, starting with seed and Series A investments and sticking with our companies at every stage of theirgrowth. BVP funded the early stages of [Pinterest, Blue Apron, Skype, Skybox Imaging, Twitch, and Periscope and helped build 117 IPOs including Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Shopify, and Wix.

BoxGroup is a boutique, early stage Angel investment fund. The firm's typical investment ranges from $50,000 to $250,000. Based in New York City, Box actively invests in New York, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles, though geography is not a constraint. The fund was founded by David Tisch, who co-founded TechStars in New York. Partner, Adam Rothenberg, was a Director as TechStars.

Compound is an NYC based venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology being built by outliers.

ENIAC Ventures is the first independent seed stage venture fund focused exclusively on the mobile software sector. ENIAC Ventures invests in high growth mobile startups identified through its network of established relationships in the sector. The firm takes a hands on approach and provides talented, driven entrepreneurs with on-the-ground management strategy and execution. The firm is led by Hadley Harris, Nihal Mehta, Vic Singh, and Tim Young. In October 2010, the firm announced that it raised $1.6 million in its first fund, which it will invest in $25,000 to $100,000 chunks over the next four to five years. Specific targeted sectors include, but are not limited to the following: Enterprise and consumer productivity applications, Interactive and casual gaming, Location based services, Mobile advertising, Mobile commerce, Mobile presence, Mobile analytics, Aggregation of services, Mobile virtual worlds, Near field communications, Payments and mobile banking, Rich media content delivery, and Mobile user interfaces.

8VC seeks to enable industry transformation. In a wave of creative destruction, they believe emerging platforms will replace the decades-old technology infrastructure behind many industries, promoting greater innovation and global prosperity. Founded in 1969, 8VC is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 2009, Freestyle Capital is a seed stage investor and mentor for Internet software startups. The firm is interested in decentralized distribution of media and information, Twitter, cloud computing and crowd sourcing. Josh Felser, a General Partner at Freestyle, worked at News Corp for four years. He also worked in new media as co-founder and president of Spinner, the first multi-channel Internet radio service and was co-founder and CEO of Grouper/Crackle, one of the first Internet video networks. Both companies were acquired in less than three years for $320M (AOL) and $65M (Sony Pictures) respectively. Felser and his partner from Spinner and Grouper, Dave Samuel, started Freestyle Capital to fill the void between retreating angels and VCs moving to later stage investments.

Gradient Ventures is Google’s AI-focused venture fund - investing in and connecting early-stage startups with resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence. The fund focuses on helping founders navigate the challenges in developing new technology products, using the latest best-practices in recruiting, marketing,design, and engineering so that great ideas can come to life. Gradient was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.gradient.com.

Innovation Endeavors is helping entrepreneurs drive a super evolution of industry. A proliferation of data, advanced computation and robotics are converging to accelerate iteration cycles, radically collapsing time. We invest in visionary founders, transformational technology and emergent ecosystems for a new world. We have offices in Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, and New York City.

Lux Capital Management manages of $4 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, earlystage, and growth investments in the physical, material and life sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures our portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Venture capital firm that backs technology companies from inception through venture and growth, with a focus on early-stage company building.

Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson in 2013. Originally named Pejman Mar Ventures, the firm was rebranded to Pear VC in 2016 and partners with exceptional founders from day zero to build category-defining companies.

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California, founded in 1982. The firm invests in next-generation enterprise and emerging technologies, including AI infrastructure, vertical AI, physical intelligence, and frontier/deep tech, from inception through Series A.

Version One Ventures is a Vancouver-based, early-stage venture capital firm founded by Boris Wertz in 2012. The firm backs mission-driven founders who are early in new areas, with a focus on AI, robotics, deep tech, decentralized systems, SaaS, and marketplaces.

Wing Venture Capital is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, focused on stealth, seed, and Series A financings in companies building the AI-first technology stack. The firm is a long-term company builder, partnering deeply with founders in B2B technology.

Founded in 1970, CRV (fka Charles River Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital fund that takes a value-added, hands-on approach to support its portfolio companies.CRV is one of the nation's oldest and most successful early-stage venture capital firms with approximately $1.5 billion under management. CRV is dedicated to helping exceptional entrepreneurs turn their ideas into the next category leaders in high growth technology and media sectors. CRV funds have been ranked among the industry's top performers. CRV has offices in Cambridge, MA and Menlo Park, CA. For more information, visit www.crv.com.

Entrepreneur behind Blueprint and the Don't Die community, focused on longevity and health measurement. Founder of Kernel, developing non-invasive brain measurement technology, and OS Fund, which backs science-based companies. His work connects consumer health, neurotechnology and investment in scientific engineering. Appeared at the Network State Conference and on Balaji Srinivasan's Network State podcast. Distinct from Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments. They provide ongoing momentum that accelerates ideas, careers, and companies toward standout success. They create the ideal conditions for growth, surround clients with the right people, and offer mentorship based on deep experience. To date,General Catalyst has managed eight venture capital funds totaling approximately $3.75 billion in capital commitments.

Berlin pre-seed and seed firm investing in health-tech and industrial-tech companies across Europe and the US. Typical initial checks €500k–€1.5m as co-lead or follower. Team listed on https://paceventures.com/about-us (accessed 2026-09-10): Marius Swart, General Partner; Luka Nićin, Associate; Gabriel Méhaignerie, Associate.

Plural Platform is a founder-led early-stage venture capital firm based in London, backing ambitious European tech founders building transformational companies. Co-founded by Taavet Hinrikus (Wise), Sten Tamkivi, Ian Hogarth, and Khaled Helioui, its mission is to have GDP-level impact on Europe.

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Pre-seed and seed venture firm in San Francisco that backs scientists and engineers building companies to solve large global problems, including climate, disease, connectivity, and food. Founded in 2015 by Ela Madej and Seth Bannon; backed by dozens of billion-dollar-company founders.

Signal profile (Founders Fund) Founders Fund cb The Founders Fund is a multi-stage, multi-sector venture capial firm with an emphasis on transformational technologies and companies. The firm's industries of interest include Advanced Machines, Aerospace & Transportation, Analytics & Software, Biotechnology & Health, and Consumer Internet & Media. Founders primarily invests at the seed stage, with a typical investment of $500,000-$5,000,000. The firm's partners previously founded PayPal. Initial subscriptions to the Founders Fund were $50 million. The firm announced March 6 the close of a $1 billion fifth suite of funds. SHOW MORE Founded: 2005

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Signal profile (Lightspeed Venture Partners) Lightspeed Venture Partners cb Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and expansion stage investments. The firm structures and participates in equity and debt financing for start-up and growth companies and also provides incubation services. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the U.S., Asia, and Israel in a broad range of sectors, which include: Cleantech, Communications, Digital Media & Wireless, Enterprise Automation, Enterprise Infra-structure, Internet Media & Commerce, and Semiconductors. In China, the firm seeks to invest in early stage and late stages businesses. It prefers to make investments in mobile, social media, commerce, gaming, consumer web services, datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure technologies, networking, wireless, internet media & commerce, internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. In India, the firm seeks to invest in advertising & media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. The firm is currently investing out of Lightspeed IX, a $675 million fund. The firm invests between $10 million to $25 million in growth stages in India, and invests between $2 million to $10 million in early stages in India. Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 1971. SHOW MORE Founded: 1971

Signal profile (Sequoia Capital) Sequoia Capital cb Founded in 1972, Sequoia Capital is one of Silicon Valley's leading VC firms, investing in Seed, Early and Growth stage companies. In the U.S. Sequoia Capital invests between $100K-$1M in start-ups across the energy, financial services, healthcare services, internet, mobile, outsourcing services and technology markets. For early stage comanies Sequoia invests between $1M-$10M. For growth stage companies, Sequoia invests between $10M-$100M. In China, India and Israel, Sequoia Capital invests between $10M-$50, and even up to $100M in companies addressing the consumer services, energy, financial services, healthcare services, internet, mobile, outsourcing services and technology markets. The firm prefers to be the first investor and business partner in a growth stage company that is profitable and fast growing and where the team and products (or services) are proven. SHOW MORE Founded: 1972

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Founded in 2004, Khosla Ventures (KV) offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. The firm's seed fund consists of 'science or innovation experiments' and other almost imprudent risks, be they in information technology or cleantech, where the firm is often the sole investor. KV's main fund looks at more traditional ventures, from early to later stages in all areas of technology. Several sectors are of particular interest to the firm: mobile, Internet, alternative energy, energy efficiency, storage, materials, and other unconventional areas. KVfounder, Vinod Khosla, was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins (see profile) and a founder of Sun Microsystems. Vinod has been hailed the #1 VC by Forbes, and Fortune recently labeled him as one the nation's most influential ethanol advocates, noting 'there are venture capitalists, and there's Vinod Khosla.' Investment size can range from $100,000 to above $20MM. Khosla continues to work closely with Kleiner Perkins and the firms often co-evaluate and co-invest together.