Venture capital firms

Mr. Nicolas Berggruen serves as Chairman at Berggruen Holdings. Mr. Berggruen was born in Paris, where he studied at l'Ecole Alsacienne before attending Le Rosey in Switzerland. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business from New York University in 1981. Prior to Berggruen Holdings, he worked for Bass Brothers Enterprises on the real estate side of this family-held investment firm, as well as for Jacobson and Co., a leveraged buyout company. In 1988, Mr. Berggruen co-founded the Alpha Group, a hedge fund operation, which was sold to Safra Bank in 2004. He is a member of the WPO-Angeleno; a board member of Promotora De Informaciones, S.A. (Prisa) and Le Monde.

Mr. Benjamin Narasin serves as General Partner at Canvas Venture Fund. He was previously President at TriplePoint Capital where he oversaw seed funding investment activities. Prior to that, Mr. Narasin spent much of the early 2000s acquiring companies in the consumer Internet and e-commerce industries and providing liquidity to shareholders. Prior to his acquisition investment and consulting roles, he founded Fashionmall.com in 1993. Mr. Narasin's works have appeared in numerous publications including San Francisco Chronicle, Wine Enthusiast, Wine News, Health Magazine and various other consumer trade magazines. Mr. Narasin holds a B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College.

Founded in 2015, PeakSpan Capital is a growth equity investment firm with offices in Silicon Valley and New York City that focuses exclusively on growth-stage software companies serving the full spectrum of business buyers from small businesses to large enterprises. PeakSpan strives to be domain experts and thought partners in the next-generation of innovation within software categories such as human capital management, e-commerce services, customer experience management, security, app-centric data services, SMB services automation, "less for less", SaaS+, and app-centric crowd services. PeakSpan provides capital for growth, secondary investments, and acquisition financing.

Mr. Paige Craig is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner and Managing Partner at Arena Ventures. He received an MBA from National University in 1999. He is an experienced angel investor who has invested in over 110 startups in the last seven years, including companies like Lyft, AngelList, Wish, Postmates, Twitter, Styleseat, Zenpayroll, Quizup and more. Paige spent the first half of his career in the Marine Corps and US Intelligence Community and later launched a defense contractor, driving alone into Iraq in 2003 with just $10,000 and expanding operations across the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Africa and Southeast Asia. He also serves on Board of Rinse.

TVC is a transformational, early-stage venture firm backed by world-class entrepreneurs and business leaders. We invest our capital, time, and network into fast-growing companies with global potential for huge, positive impact. Last year, less than 3% of VC dollars went to female-led companies and more than 75% of founders were white. We want to bridge the gap for those who aren’t born with a pre-existing network and community, making capital accessible to the best talent, regardless of race, gender or background. The Venture Collective is a gateway to creating equal opportunities for anyone with the will and determination to succeed. We are your infrastructure.

Salesforce Ventures is the global investment arm of Salesforce and is focused on partnering with the most results-oriented enterprise technology companies at every stage in their journey. Since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $3 billion in over 400 leading companies including Auth0, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, http://monday.com/, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, Twilio, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures provides portfolio companies with unparalleled access to Salesforce, one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world, including strategic advisory, customer introductions, and the strongest cloud ecosystem.

Blue Collective is an investment firm founded in 2015 and located in Brooklyn, New York. Blue’s investment thesis is simple: phenomenal people build phenomenal businesses. We like to be the first outside investor in early-stage venture capital companies. We invest in Pre-Seed and Seed rounds of companies across a wide variety of industries and categories (from cowboy boots to podcasts to fintech to enterprise SaaS to med devices). If you’re a phenomenal entrepreneur (or think you have what it takes to be one), reach out to us on our website (www.bluecollective.com), Twitter (@_bluecollective), or by email (blue@bluecollective.com). We want to hear from you!

Our belief is that the best ideas happen offline. Far away from the everyday. Away from the complexity of modern society and its mores. We exist to help founders find the space to create. To think big, original, and different. Then, to ensure founders and their teams stay healthy on the journey to take that thinking and transform the world. With the hope that along the way, beautiful companies are born that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them. In the end, we believe the foundational technology breakthroughs that most benefit humanity are forged at the intersection of science, engineering, design, and art.

Ms. Susan Lyne serves as Founding Partner, President & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures. She is also currently the chief executive officer of brand group at AOL. In this position, she oversees all aspects of the Brand Group's growth strategy, including increasing traffic across properties, maximizing partnerships with advertisers and publishers, and attracting top talent, with a particular focus on content, design, programming, and product. Ms. Lyne is on the board of AOL, Inc. She is a trustee of Rockefeller University and The New School, and a former trustee of The Posse Foundation and The Public Theater. She also serves as the Advisor at LearnVest.

Mr. Edward Sim is a Founding Partner at Boldstart Ventures. He has led many seed and first rounds and helped a number of entrepreneurs successfully scale from seed to market leader including big data pioneer Greenplum (sold to EMC), 24/7 Media (public and then sold to WPP Group), Answers.com, Gizmo5 (sold to Google), Moreover Technologies (sold to Verisign), and Flashbase (sold to Doubleclick). Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard. He started his venture capital career in 1996 with Prospect Street Ventures and subsequently co-founded Dawntreader Ventures in 1998 and founded Boldstart Ventures in 2010. He also serves as an Advisor at Chaac Ventures.

Chart Venture Partners is an independent investment company founded through a collaborative relationship between the Chart Group and InSitech, a non-profit commercial partnership intermediary for the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal. The firm seeks to invest security related technologies with a focus on dual use products for government and commercial applications including communications, software, robotics, materials science, power and energy, semiconductor, photonics, imaging, sensor, guidance, navigation and control, biometrics, and geospatial imaging and services media.

Blue Chip Venture is a venture capital firm which seeks to provide the last financing round or pre-exit capital for early stage investors and venture-backed companies. It invests in late financing rounds of venture-backed companies with proven business plans in the digital media and big data industries that plan to be sold, recapitalized, or taken public within a target of two years. The firm prefers to invest in the new internet media, consumer marketing, software, healthcare, pharmaceuticals to traditional manufacturing sectors. It was founded in 1990 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio with an additional office in New York, New York.

GXP Investments is the non-regulated investment affiliate and wholly owned subsidiary of Great Plains Energy Incorporated. The firm focuses on opportunities in the customer energy solutions and energy infrastructure industries, and is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain. Other areas of focus include energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security and renewables services. It primarily targets growth equity investments in revenue generating businesses that are primed for expansion and that can benefit from a well-capitalized, industry experienced, strategic partner.

Vestigo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to later stage financial services technology companies. The firm was formed in 2016 and is based in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm attracts entrepreneurs who are creating innovative companies that align with four core strategic themes: 1. Market Structures (e.g., financial markets, risk analysis, trading, crypto finance) 2. Operations Solutions (e.g., front, middle, and back office, block chain) 3. Worksite Management (e.g., companies and the gig economy) 4. Personal Wealth (e.g., investment products, financial planning, behavioral finance).

Atlantic Bridge Capital is a growth equity firm which specializes in seed, early stage, late venture, growth/expansion and buyout investments. It prefers to invest in companies based in China, Europe and the United States operating in the semiconductor, software, infrastructure, communication, big data, mobile, internet of things, virtualization, alternative energy resources, financial services, agricultural products, messaging and robotics sectors. The firm was founded in 2005 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Beijing, China and Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Mr. Bong Koh is the Founder at KohFounders. Previously, he has founded/invested/advised startups including Shift, Retention Science, Freshtemp, Bringhub, KonektData, Mobilocity (Qualcomm), IBY (Photobucket), Zofari (Yahoo!) and GradientX (Singtel). Bong’s venture experience includes Mucker Lab in Santa Monica and Advanced Technology Ventures in Palo Alto. Bong’s first startup experience was with Organic where he joined pre IPO in New York. Bong was also with McKinsey in Palo Alto and Los Angeles and Salomon Smith Barney in New York. Bong holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Sloan School of Management at MIT.

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Founded in 1928, Wellington Management Company is an investment managing firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides provides services to to high net worth individuals, banking and thrift institutions, pension and profit sharing plans, endowment and foundations, insurers, intermediaries and wealth managers, state and municipal government entities, charitable organizations, family offices and consultants. The firm invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies. It launches and manages equity, fixed income, balanced mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients.

Founded by Don Thompson, the former President and CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, Cleveland Avenue is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that invests in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companies that positively disrupt large and growing markets. Launched in 2021, the CAST US Fund is a $70M initiative that will bridge the capital and resource gap impacting Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs in Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods. CAST US leverages the investment and entrepreneurial development expertise of Cleveland Avenue to support this historically underserved group of entrepreneurs.

Timberline Venture Partners is a venture capital firm which specializes in early stage and start-up investments. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States, operating in the biotechnology, business and consumer products, computer hardware, financial services, healthcare, IT services, industrial and energy products, media and entertainment, medical equipment, networking, retailing and distribution, semiconductors, software, telecommunications and real estate sectors. The firm is based in Woodland, Washington with additional offices in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Washington.

Velocity Equity Partners is a venture capital firm investing in early stage companies primarily in the northeast region of United States. The firm seeks to invest in the enterprise software, communications infrastructure, wireless applications, niche vertical software applications, silicon and hardware technology, sensors, process control and applications of technologies to manufacturing processes and industrial products sectors. The firm was founded in 2000 by the merging of the two venture investment groups Velocity Capital and Corning Technology Ventures. The firm is located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Elevate Capital is a Portland, OR based venture capital firm led by Managing Partner, Nitin Rai and General Partner, Kumar Sripadam. Elevate’s mission is to help close the $4 trillion wealth gap by catalyzing generational wealth creation for underserved entrepreneurs including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ, and veterans. To achieve our mission, Elevate provides access to seed capital, mentorship, and connections into networks that allow our portfolio companies to scale towards timely and meaningful exits. The Fund invests in the technology and healthcare sectors with check sizes that range between $100k to $1M.

Mr. Karan Bajwa serves as a Managing Director, IBM India at International Business Machines. He had joined IBM last year as executive for strategy and transformation in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was managing director at Microsoft India. Bajwa will be responsible for all strategic and operational matters related to IBM India's sales, marketing, services and delivery operations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Bajwa is also an angel investor and had backed hyperlocal services marketplace FindYahan, which was acquired by on-demand home services platform Zimmber last year.

Symantec is a provider of cyber security services. The company helps businesses, governments and people secure their data. It operates the business on a global civilian cyber intelligence threat network and track a number of threats across the internet from millions of mobile devices, endpoints and servers across the globe. Founded in 1982, Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries and principal office at Mountain View, California. The company's acquisitions are designed to enhance the features and functionality of existing products and extend the product leadership in core markets.

Emil Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in small to mid-sized private companies in the food & beverage, consumer applications, digital media, ondemand or e-commerce, and beauty and apparel industries serving markets in North America and Europe. Emerging products and services that impact consumer lifestyles and wellness, including health, education and communication, as well as certain premium or gourmet food categories are considered specific growth areas suitable for investment. The firm was founded in 2009 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Windward Ventures specializes in early stage companies but it does not invest in seed stage companies. The main focus of investment lies on industries such as information technology, communication and telecommunication, electronics, broadband technologies, optoelectronics, semiconductors, systems engineering, software, Internet infrastructure, data storage, and medical devices sectors. The firm invests in private companies based in Southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego. The firm typically takes minority stake with board representation in its portfolio companies.

The Sequel Fund is a early-stage seed fund that invests in young companies raising their first round of institutional capital. The fund welcomes companies from most industries including entertainment, manufacturing, food and beverage, health services, financial services, technology, entertainment, manufacturing, and consumer non-durables. Sequel Fund does not invest in FDA-regulated products. The fund invests in companies in Kentucky and lower Indiana. They require prospective companies to graduate from an Accelerator Program or to secure a lead investor on reasonable terms.

Debut Capital invests in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous founders, creating influential businesses that will shape our future into the revolutionary world it’s meant to be. Pilar and Bobak (co-founders of Debut Capital) met while working at Prolific Interactive, a strategy-led mobile agency. Their shared passion for building inclusive and diverse spaces led to them realizing how underfunded Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Founders are by VC firms. Seeing this as an opportunity, Debut Capital was born with the simple core values of good vibes, honesty, value, and partnership.

We are a venture capital firm fighting minority wealth inequality by investing in and supporting the best diverse founders, startups and ideas. Through investing, we solve systemic problems while creating wealth in underrepresented communities and atypical returns for our investors. Seven years ago we founded Alpha Impact 8, with the mission to generate atypical returns by empowering technology creators to disrupt the fintech and future of work sectors. Today, we have delivered amazing returns to our fund investors. Diversity creates top 1% returns. Invest in diversity.

Woodside O’Brien invests in entrepreneurs who commercialize big ideas that matter – ideas that reimagine the world as more efficient, clear and connected. The firm currently offers investors a pledge fund comprised of disruptive technology companies poised for explosive growth and a co-investment fund that invests alongside a prominent angel group. It invests in disruptive technology companies that bring efficency, clarity and connectivity to the markets. The firm advises and assists each portfolio company with operations, business development, recruiting and financing.

T5 Capital is an investment arm of Triple Five Corp which specializes in venture capital and private equity investments. It focuses on investing in early stage disruptive technology companies, control investments and buyouts of companies. It invests in the hospitality, development, high technology sectors, real estate, banking and financial services, retail, multimedia, bio-tech, internet, telecommunications, wireless, cable, computer software, e-commerce, fiber, networking and semiconductors. It is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada and was founded in 2011.

Capita3 is an early stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders and the companies they’re building. We’re leading the next generation of venture capital by investing in the growth of the startup CEO alongside our investment in the growth of the company, and we’ll set a new standard for how VC-financed companies grow and exit. We’ve developed a game-changing program that helps women entrepreneurs grow into powerful leaders who can grow their companies to maximum value. It’s good for women, good for our investments, and good for the world.

TA Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, backing companies in Europe and North America at seed and Series A, alongside high-profile co-investors, across a wide range of tech sectors. We offer proactive support and a broad international network to our portfolio companies. By supporting with the set-up of R&D centers in Ukraine and Europe, we help our portfolio companies grow and stay competitive. TA Ventures is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

Mr. Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at HubSpot. He also serves as Mentor at Rough Draft Ventures. Prior to HubSpot, he was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions. Prior to Pyramid Digital Solutions, he held a number of technology management and development positions. He also runs OnStartups.com. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from MIT. He is author of a book entitled Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs.

The Designer Fund is an seed and early stage venture capital firm that primarily invests in startups co-founded by designers and build and educate through its professional development program named Bridge, that connects designers with startups and its community in San Francisco. It also organizes educational events, like the Designer Fair and Women in Design and content such as the Designer Founders book and infographic to distribute for public good and design students worldwide. The firm was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sequoia Capital

Menlo Park, United States

Mr. Omar Hamoui serves as Partner at Sequoia Capital. He also co-founded HerBabyShower. He is a Board Member at LIFX Labs, PicsArt, Clutter, Kiwi and Offermatic. He founded AdMob in January 2006 while in the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he started and ran several companies in the mobile, Internet and computer software industries including Vertical Blue, GoPix and Fotochatter, a mobile to mobile image sharing network. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angelesl.

SineWave Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2014 and focuses on investing in companies in the enterprise tech, systems tech, service platforms, education, financial services and preventative health sectors. It provides a unique platform approach to venture and growth capital investing that brings together public sector entities, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and strategic corporate partners for the purpose of accelerating company growth, enhancing value, and maximizing investor returns.

First Analysis is a venture capital and private equity firm that prefers to invest in companies operating in the healthcare productivity, information technology and outsourced broadband enabled businesses, clean-tech and infrastructure. It invested more than $750 million across 12 funds in three fund families since 1985. The firm helps established companies become profitable leaders in large markets, funding growth plans and working closely with management in areas including strategy, recruitment, sales and marketing, and corporate development.

Mr. Thomas Wisniewski serves as a Managing Partner at Newark Venture Partners. He is a veteran of the NYC-area venture and accelerator scene. He previously founded RosePaul Ventures which has a portfolio of 20+ tech start-ups and investments in notable venture funds such as Greycroft Ventures, ff Venture Capital, ER Accelerator. Notable investments include Pond5, LiveLOOK (acquired by Oracle), Kanvas (acquired by AOL). Tom has an MBA from Dartmouth and a BA in Physics from Clark University. He also serves as Board Member at New York Angels.

Red Bike Capital is a Latino and woman-led early stage VC fund based in New York that invests in verticals that are primed for disruption and growth. We invest in US-based SAAS, Health & Wellness, and Fintech. We are founders ourselves, have 30+ years of experience with an authentic connection to the startup ecosystem and a strong track record in asset management, including founding and scaling a Y Combinator-backed startup to $100M in revenue, deploying $2B in assets, and sourcing deals via relationships with top founders and accelerators.

Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a strategic investment fund that is verticalizing venture investing by launching its companies into the world's largest industries including real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance. SCV seeks investment opportunities in proven enterprises that will drive industry growth, enable new usage models and advance industry standards. SCV prefers SaaS companies generally focused on big data applications, digital media, fin tech and business services that can span multiple verticals.

Armory Square Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It provides the first round of institutional capital for companies targeting the largest industries across New York State and northeast region in the United States. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the web, healthcare, education technology, fintech, energy software, mobile and technology-enabled service sectors. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Syracuse, New York with an additional office in New York, New York.

Panacea Capital Advisors is a venture capital firm which serves as the sole source of capital, leads an early stage round or co-invests along with other professional investors. It assists with fund raising activities by providing structuring and valuation expertise and by identifying, introducing and vetting a portion of the other professional investors in the capital structure. The firm focuses primarily on earlier stage companies that have a commercially available product. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

FusionX Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused on helping companies build the next generation of cloud-enabled Smart Machines. The investment theme focuses on startups with products that fuse hardware, software and cloud (IoT) that include a recurring revenue stream. The firm help companies reduce execution risk by combining go-to-market experience and advisor network with design, manufacturing, and program management. The firm has a partnership with D&K Engineering, who specializes in class-leading product realization.

MITA Ventures is an early stage fund focused on emerging opportunities within and outside of the US. It's US investment thesis focuses on growth companies expanding into Latin America where MITA leverages its deep networks to connect to the regions IT/Telecom/ Finance infrastructure. For Latin American companies, primarily Mexican companies, MITA invests in talent that has gone under the radar of US VCs because of their limited geographic reach. MITA's investment team is located in Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta and San Francisco.

SteelSky Ventures invests in companies that improve access, care and outcomes in women’s health. Our focused thesis is driven by the belief that women’s healthcare is a global market opportunity, in the nascent stage, that is primed for exponential growth driven by technological and business model innovation in established and new categories. We invest across the spectrum of women’s health in consumer health, digital health, new healthcare delivery models, ePharmacy and retail therapeutics, with 16 portfolio companies to date.