Seed-stage investing remains venture capital's highest-volume, highest-risk category, and the firms below range from generalist mega-funds running dedicated seed programs to solo-GP specialists who've built entire careers around this single stage.
Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2009
Coinbase's 2021 direct listing on Nasdaq - one of the largest crypto IPOs ever
AICryptoFintechConsumer
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1972
Nvidia - an early investor that rode the company to become one of the most valuable in the world
Enterprise SoftwareConsumerAISemiconductors
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Cambridge, MA
Founded 2000
Snap's 2017 IPO, one of the largest consumer tech listings of its era
HealthcareFintechAI Infrastructure
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1977
Robinhood's 2021 IPO, bringing retail stock trading to the public markets
TechnologyHealthcareLife Sciences
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2000
Snap's 2017 IPO, five years after Lightspeed wrote Snapchat's first-ever institutional check
Enterprise InfrastructureConsumer
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2012
$20.78B (RAUM, Form ADV 2026)
Assets Managed
Nubank's 2021 NYSE IPO - Ribbit was an early backer of the Brazilian neobank, which reached a market capitalization of roughly $67.4 billion by July 2026
FintechCryptoConsumer InternetAI
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 1983
Facebook's Series A in 2005 - still cited as one of the highest-multiple returns in VC history
Enterprise SoftwareConsumerSecurity
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New York, NY
Founded 1989
No single confirmed signature exit - OrbiMed is instead widely regarded in biotech as a 'stamp of validation' and IPO accelerator, with many companies specifically seeking its backing to help secure Nasdaq or HKEX listin…
BiotechPharmaceuticalsHealthcareDiagnostics
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$19B invested cumulatively across funds (not a current single fund figure)
Assets Managed
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' 2004 IPO (NASDAQ: ALNY) - an early Polaris healthcare investment
HealthcareEnterprise Software
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1961
Spotify's 2018 direct listing on the NYSE - one of several major exits, including Lending Club's 2014 IPO, where Norwest was the largest institutional investor
Enterprise SoftwareConsumer InternetFintechHealthcare
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2004
Block (formerly Square)'s 2015 IPO, one of fintech's defining public debuts
Clean EnergyAIDeep Tech
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Wayfair's 2014 IPO - Battery led the company's first institutional financing round in 2011, after General Partner Neeraj Agrawal recognized the opportunity through a decade-long friendship with co-founder Niraj Shah
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSConsumer InternetIndustrial Technology
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Mountain View, CA
Founded 2009
Uber's 2019 IPO - GV's $258 million investment, personally led by CEO David Krane, was one of the largest venture checks in Uber's early history
Consumer InternetLife SciencesEnterprise SoftwareAI
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Santa Clara, CA
Founded 1991
$12.9B invested since 1991 (cumulative capital deployed)
Assets Managed
No single signature exit - Intel Capital's scale is cumulative: since 1991 it has invested $12.9 billion across more than 1,582 companies worldwide, with 692 reaching an IPO or acquisition, including current public holdi…
AICloud InfrastructureCybersecurity5G
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2018
No traditional Paradigm-portfolio IPO exit - the firm's clearest proof points are Fund III bets Zipline (drone delivery, valued at $7.6 billion) and True Anomaly (space defense, valued at $2.2 billion), both still privat…
CryptoAIDeep TechFintech
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$12B (following $3B+ Fund XIII, September 2024)
Assets Managed
Karuna Therapeutics' December 2023 acquisition by Bristol Myers Squibb for $14 billion - one of Robert Nelsen's earliest bets at the firm
BiotechHealthcareAIDeep Tech
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Figma's July 2025 IPO at a $56 billion valuation - Index backed the design platform years before its explosive public debut
Consumer InternetFintechAIMarketplaces
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2005
SpaceX's June 2026 IPO - an estimated ~80x return on Founders Fund's original stake
AerospaceDefense TechHard Tech
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New York, NY
Founded 2009
$10B+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
An early stake in Instagram years before its acquisition by Facebook
Consumer InternetAI
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Redwood City, CA
Founded 1911
$10B+ (recent fund)
Assets Managed
LinkedIn's 2011 IPO, followed by its 2016 acquisition by Microsoft
Cloud SoftwareConsumerHealthcare
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Amazon's 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems - Ajay Agarwal led BCV's first institutional round in the warehouse robotics startup in 2004, and its technology now powers Amazon Robotics across more than 2,000 fulfillment cen…
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSCybersecurity
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2015
$10B+ (following $1.3B Fund VI + Early Growth Fund III close, April 2026)
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - Eclipse instead builds a defense-heavy 'connected industrial economy' of companies that share infrastructure and talent, including True Anomaly (autonomous spacecraft), Blue Wat…
RoboticsAI InfrastructureManufacturingDefense
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1996
$10B+ (RIA regulatory AUM)
Assets Managed
Coupang's 2021 NYSE IPO - Altos was an early backer of the South Korean ecommerce company, which priced at an implied valuation of $62.1 billion
ConsumerEnterprise SoftwareMarketplacesFintech
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Bengaluru, India
Founded 2006
Freshworks, which Reuters reported was targeting nearly $9.6 billion ahead of its IPO and which was valued at $12.2 billion on debut-day trading
AIFintechEnterprise SoftwareConsumer
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 1995
eBay - a $6.7 million Series A in 1997 that became one of the best-performing venture bets ever made
Consumer InternetMarketplacesEnterprise
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Twitter's 2013 IPO - Spark led the company's early investment in 2007 when it had fewer than a dozen employees
Consumer InternetEnterprise SoftwareFintechAI
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New York, NY
Founded 2000
Auris Health's 2019 acquisition by Johnson & Johnson for up to $6.1 billion - Lux first invested in the surgical robotics company in 2012, seven years before the deal
Deep TechAIHealthcareDefense Tech
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$7B+ (raised across eight funds; $1.3B new early/growth funds, 2024)
Assets Managed
MySQL's 2008 acquisition by Sun Microsystems for approximately $1 billion - an early proof point for European open-source software investing
AIFintechEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1987
$7B (following $850M Fund XIII)
Assets Managed
The RealReal's 2019 Nasdaq IPO - Maha Ibrahim was the company's first investor and sat on its board through the listing
Enterprise SoftwareFintechConsumer InternetHealthcare
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Tokyo, Japan
Founded 1973
$6.8B (¥1 trillion, 2025)
Assets Managed
Mercari's 2018 Tokyo Stock Exchange IPO - one of over 1,041 portfolio IPOs JAFCO has facilitated since its founding, more than any other Japanese venture firm
Enterprise SoftwareFintechRoboticsHealthcare
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CyberArk's NASDAQ listing (NASDAQ: CYBR) - a notable holding across Vertex's regional fund network
TechnologyHealthcare
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Wish's NASDAQ IPO in December 2020 at a $14.1 billion valuation - Joe Lonsdale was an early institutional investor in the e-commerce company
Enterprise SoftwareDefense TechHealthcareAI
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2009
$6B+ deployed capital
Assets Managed
Vlocity's February 2020 acquisition by Salesforce itself for $1.33 billion - an unusually direct proof point, since Salesforce Ventures backed the industry-cloud software company before its own parent acquired it
AIEnterprise SoftwareFintechCybersecurity
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Shanghai, China
Founded 2008
Xiaomi's 2018 Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPO - 5Y (then Morningside) was Xiaomi's first institutional backer, realizing a reported 800x return on its original investment as the company grew into one worth roughly $170 bill…
AIConsumer InternetEnterprise SoftwareDeep Tech
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Lagos, Nigeria
Founded 2019
Not publicly disclosed (100+ portfolio companies collectively valued above $6B, 2024)
Assets Managed
No confirmed fund-level exit yet - founder Iyinoluwa Aboyeji's own prior track record co-founding Andela and Flutterwave, both real African unicorns backed by SoftBank and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is the firm's cl…
FintechHealthcareEdtechClimate
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1976
Uber's 2019 IPO - Menlo led the company's $32 million Series B in 2011 after a16z passed on the deal, and realized a 93x return when a SoftBank-led group bought part of its stake for $973 million in 2018
Consumer InternetEnterprise SoftwareAI
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Cambridge, MA
Founded 1970
Beam Therapeutics' 2020 Nasdaq IPO - President Stephen Knight personally co-founded the gene-editing company and has served on its board since 2017
BiotechHealthcareEnterprise SoftwareFintech
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1989
No single signature exit with a verified public dollar figure - Crosslink's track record instead runs through Alpha, its invite-only network of more than 2,000 founders, CEOs, and investors co-founded by General Partner …
AIEnterprise SoftwareConsumer InternetFintech
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1999
Netflix - an early investor that backed the company years before streaming existed as a category
Consumer InternetCloud InfrastructureSaaSEnterprise Software
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1996
Musical.ly's acquisition by ByteDance in 2017, later merged into TikTok - an early DCM bet on short-form video years before the category became a cultural phenomenon, alongside seven IPOs since 2019 including Bill.com, L…
FintechConsumerEnterprise SoftwareAI
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 1970
DoorDash's December 2020 IPO at a $39 billion valuation - CRV led the company's seed round in 2013, when it was just nine weeks old
Consumer InternetMarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1981
$4.3B+ (invested since inception)
Assets Managed
Yammer's $1.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft in 2012 - USVP was an early investor in the enterprise social networking company, one of 93-plus IPOs and countless acquisitions across the firm's four-decade history
Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurityConsumerHealthcare
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Paris, France
Founded 1972
€4B+ (~$4.4B)
Assets Managed
Shockwave Medical's acquisition by Johnson & Johnson in 2024 - a cardiovascular device company Sofinnova supported for more than a decade, one of 25 IPOs and 30 acquisitions across the firm's 50-plus year history
HealthcareDeep Tech
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2011
Blue River Technology's 2017 acquisition by John Deere for $305 million - an agricultural robotics bet that landed years before machine vision became standard in farming equipment
Deep TechClimateHealthcareDefense Tech
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Alexandria, VA
Founded 2007
$4B (across all funds)
Assets Managed
Credit Karma's December 2020 acquisition by Intuit for $7.1 billion - co-founder Frank Rotman's most notable investment to date
FintechInsuranceLendingBanking Infrastructure
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2005
Fitbit's 2015 IPO - True Ventures was among Fitbit's first institutional investors, backing the company when it looked like little more than a pedometer in a world with no wearables market yet
ConsumerHardwareMediaAI
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$3.8B (raised since inception)
Assets Managed
Bluebird Bio's public listing - one of the category-defining gene and cell therapy companies Third Rock built from early scientific concept through IPO, alongside Agios Pharmaceuticals and Foundation Medicine
BiotechTherapeuticsLife Sciences
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Kirkland, WA
Founded 2015
$3.5B+ committed capital (across three funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed public exit directly attributable to BEV as an investor - the fund instead measures itself by an unusually specific mandate: every company must have credible potential to eliminate at least 1% of global annu…
ClimateEnergyAgricultureIndustrial Technology
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New York, NY
Founded 2008
$3.5B (committed capital)
Assets Managed
Pinterest's 2019 NYSE IPO - Co-Founder Rick Heitzmann personally wrote the company's seed check, years before it went public
Enterprise SoftwareConsumerAIFintech
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1965
LinkedIn's 2011 IPO, followed by Microsoft's $26.2 billion acquisition of the company in 2016
Enterprise SoftwareConsumer InternetCybersecurityAI
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Cambridge, MA
Founded 2000
$3.4B (single fund, 2021); has raised multiple funds since 2000
Assets Managed
Moderna's December 2018 Nasdaq IPO, which raised approximately $604 million at a roughly $7.5 billion valuation - one of the largest biotech IPOs ever at the time, years before Moderna became a household name during the …
BiotechHealthcareClimateLife Sciences
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2017
Reddit's 2024 IPO on NYSE - Craft backed the company in 2017, years before its public debut
SaaSMarketplacesAICloud/Infrastructure
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2011
Coinbase's 2021 direct listing - Initialized was an early backer of the exchange, which carried a market capitalization of roughly $41.9 billion by July 2026
Enterprise SoftwareAIInfrastructureConsumer
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$3.1B+ (current), latest fundraise €1B (2022)
Assets Managed
Spotify's 2018 direct listing, which ended its first day of trading at a valuation of about $26.5 billion
AIFintechHealthcareEnterprise Software
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2018
$3B+ deployed cumulatively since 2018 (not a stated current fund AUM)
Assets Managed
No public equity exit documented - Electric Capital invests primarily in early-stage crypto, developer tools, and frontier technology
CryptoAIHealthcare
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 1969
Apple's December 1980 NASDAQ IPO - Venrock invested $288,000 for roughly 10% equity in 1978, one of more than 112 IPOs across the firm's history, alongside Intel's 1971 IPO and Gilead Sciences
HealthcareEnterprise SoftwareConsumerDeep Tech
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Montreal, Canada
Founded 1953
$3B (across venture and growth funds)
Assets Managed
No focus on traditional exits - as Canada's national development bank's venture arm, BDC Capital measures success through co-investment reach; Lightspeed Commerce's 2020 NYSE IPO is among the notable companies it helped …
Enterprise SoftwareAIClimate
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
No single dollar-verified SignalFire exit confirmed yet - founder Chris Farmer's prior seed program at General Catalyst backed Coinbase, Discord, Stripe, Venmo, and Zapier, lending real pre-existing credibility to Signal…
AIEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurityHealthcare
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Beijing, China
Founded 2009
No portfolio company has completed a major international IPO yet - Sinovation instead measures itself through China-market listings for Megvii and 4Paradigm, and founder Kai-Fu Lee's own prior AdMob-adjacent track record…
AIDeep TechEdtech
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New York, NY
Founded 2006
$3B+ (across all funds)
Assets Managed
Venmo - Greycroft was an early seed investor in the payments app; Braintree, which had acquired Venmo, was sold to PayPal for $800 million in 2013
Enterprise SoftwareFintechConsumerAI
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1969
Lyft's 2019 IPO - one of Mayfield's most recognizable public outcomes, still held in the firm's portfolio today
AIEnterprise SoftwareSemiconductors/Deep TechCybersecurity
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Herzliya, Israel
Founded 1993
CyberMDX's February 2022 acquisition by ForeScout Technologies - one of more than 85 exits across Pitango's 250-plus portfolio companies since 1993
Enterprise SoftwareFintechCybersecurityHealthcare
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 1995
Netflix - Foundation Capital was one of the company's original investors years before it became a public, category-defining media company, one of 26 IPOs across the firm's three-decade history
FintechEnterprise SoftwareConsumerAI
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 2015
€3B+ (~$3.2B)
Assets Managed
Delivery Hero's 2017 IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, raising approximately €1 billion - an early Target Global bet, alongside Auto1 Group's 2021 Frankfurt IPO
FintechMobilityConsumerAI
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2012
Warby Parker's 2021 NYSE direct listing - Forerunner led an early seed check into the eyewear company years before its founding as a formal firm, one of the clearest proof points of its consumer-first thesis
ConsumerCommerceDigital HealthFintech
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Munich, Germany
Founded 2000
Zalando's IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange - HV Capital (then Holtzbrinck Ventures) was Zalando's first institutional investor
Consumer InternetEnterprise SoftwareFintech
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Cambridge, MA
Founded 1980
Akero Therapeutics' $4.7 billion acquisition by Novo Nordisk in 2025, expanding its MASH treatment portfolio - one of Atlas's clearest recent wins, alongside Nimbus Therapeutics' $4 billion TYK2 licensing deal with Taked…
HealthcareDeep Tech
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2010
Twilio's NYSE IPO under ticker TWLO - one of 500 Global's earliest and most consequential bets, backed years before it became a category-defining cloud communications company
FintechEnterprise SoftwareConsumer
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2017
No confirmed public exit yet - Base10's clearest proof points are current portfolio companies growing rapidly, including Nubank (NYSE: NU) as one of the firm's larger co-investment wins alongside Notion and Figma, both s…
Industrial TechFintechEnterprise SoftwareAI
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2006
Delhivery's 2022 IPO on India's NSE and BSE exchanges - one of Nexus's earliest and largest India-based portfolio bets, backed years before it became India's leading logistics company
Enterprise SoftwareAIFintechConsumer
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New York, NY
Founded 1994
$2.5B+ (across 10 funds)
Assets Managed
Braintree's $800 million acquisition by PayPal in October 2013 - RRE was an early investor in the payments company years before its exit
Enterprise SoftwareFintechConsumerAI
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Founded 2007
Lightspeed Commerce's 2019 dual listing on the NYSE and TSX - Inovia was Lightspeed's first Canadian investor and helped lead a 2017 buyout that kept the Montreal point-of-sale company from a foreign takeover ahead of it…
AICybersecurityDigital HealthFintech
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Paris, France
Founded 1982
€2.5B (~$2.7B)
Assets Managed
No single confirmed signature exit - Partech instead measures itself by breadth and duration: 220-plus active portfolio companies across 40 countries and four continents, built over more than four decades since its 1982 …
FintechDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareEnergy
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San Mateo, CA
Founded 2003
Zoom's 2019 IPO - General Partner Santi Subotovsky led Emergence's investment when the video conferencing company was still a little-known startup, and remains on its board today
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSCloud Infrastructure
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 1964
$2.3B (2026)
Assets Managed
Enterprise SoftwareInfrastructureCybersecurityCloud
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Jerusalem, Israel
Founded 1993
CyberArk's 2014 Nasdaq IPO - JVP was the company's Series A investor and later increased its stake to roughly 47% via a Goldman Sachs-backed secondary transaction; CyberArk agreed to a $25 billion acquisition by Palo Alt…
CybersecurityAIEnterprise SoftwareFintech
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2011
Slack's 2019 NYSE IPO under ticker WORK, followed by Salesforce's more than $27 billion acquisition of the company in 2021 - one of Chamath Palihapitiya's earliest and most defining bets
AIHealthcareClimateEnterprise Software
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2012
$2B+ personal fund (2026, per CB Insights)
Assets Managed
Airbnb's 2020 IPO - one of dozens of pre-IPO checks across a track record including Coinbase, Instacart, Pinterest, and Roblox
AIFintechSaaSMarketplaces
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
$2B+ (across multiple funds)
Assets Managed
Coinbase's 2021 direct listing - Blockchain Capital invested pre-IPO and participated directly in the listing
CryptoDeFi
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$2B+ (owned by The Carlyle Group since 2022)
Assets Managed
Clovis Oncology's NASDAQ IPO under ticker CLVS - one of 73-plus IPOs across Abingworth's 50-year history, alongside Algeta's acquisition by Bayer in 2014 and early pre-biotech-pivot stakes in Apple and Silicon Graphics
HealthcareDeep Tech
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San Mateo, CA
Founded 1985
Tesla's 2010 NASDAQ IPO and Baidu's 2005 NASDAQ IPO - two of Tim Draper's earliest and most iconic public-market bets, alongside Coinbase's 2021 direct listing decades later
CryptoAIDeep TechFintech
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San Diego, CA
Founded 2000
$2B+ (150+ active portfolio companies, per NVCA 2026)
Assets Managed
Ring's 2018 acquisition by Amazon for more than $1 billion - Qualcomm Ventures was an early backer of the connected-home company
AI5GAutomotiveIoT
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Founded 2011
$2B+ raised across seven funds
Assets Managed
Nubank's 2021 NYSE IPO - Kaszek was an early backer of the Brazilian neobank, which reached a market capitalization of roughly $67 billion by 2026
FintechEcommerceMarketplacesEnterprise Software
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Founded 2002
Prenetics' 2023 Nasdaq listing via SPAC merger - one of four Gobi-backed companies to reach unicorn status, alongside Carsome, Animoca Brands, and Amber Group
Consumer InternetFintechMobilityEnterprise Software
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No confirmed public exit yet - Lowercarbon's flagship bets (Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Charm Industrial, Solugen, Zap Energy) remain private, hard-tech climate companies still working toward commercial deployment
ClimateCarbon RemovalEnergyIndustrial Technology
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 1997
€2B+ (~$2.2B)
Assets Managed
TeamViewer's 2019 IPO and Delivery Hero's 2017 IPO - two of Earlybird's clearest public-market outcomes; Babylon Health also completed a roughly $4.2 billion SPAC merger in 2021, though the company later collapsed into a…
FintechDeep TechHealthcareConsumer
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£2B (~$2.6B)
Assets Managed
Depop's $1.6 billion acquisition by Etsy in 2021 - an early Octopus Ventures backer of the fashion resale marketplace, alongside continued positions in Zoopla and SwiftKey
Deep TechHealthcareFintechConsumer
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2018
No major venture-portfolio exit reported yet - Tribe's clearest public-market event is its own 2021 SPAC, which listed on NASDAQ with $240 million in capital, distinct from a traditional portfolio-company exit
Enterprise SoftwareFintechCryptoAI
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2012
$1.8B+ invested to date
Assets Managed
JFrog's September 2020 Nasdaq IPO - DTC published a case study celebrating the DevOps company's public debut, part of a run of exits including Arista, DocuSign, MongoDB, Nutanix, SumoLogic, and Zscaler that generated mor…
AICybersecurityData & AnalyticsEnterprise Software
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$1.8B+ (across nine funds since founding)
Assets Managed
Fitbit's approximately $2.1 billion acquisition by Google in 2019 - an early Foundry investment, alongside Zynga's IPO at a $7 billion valuation and Gnip's acquisition by Twitter
Enterprise SoftwareConsumerAI
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Arlington, VA
Founded 1999
Not publicly disclosed (Fortune's independent estimate: at least $1.8B deployed since 1999, based on 26 years of tax filings)
Assets Managed
Palantir's 2020 NYSE direct listing under ticker PLTR - In-Q-Tel invested roughly $2 million in 2003, when it and the CIA were essentially the company's only backers and only customers, years before Palantir's valuation …
AICybersecurityDeep TechDefense Tech
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2015
Early backer of MosaicML, which Databricks acquired for approximately $1.3B in 2023
RoboticsAIBiotechClimate
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2019
No confirmed exit yet - Acrew itself launched in 2019, though co-founder Theresia Gouw's prior track record includes real, verified exits at Forescout, Imperva, Trulia, and HotelTonight's acquisition by Airbnb, built dur…
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2014
$1.6B+ (across five funds)
Assets Managed
Beyond Meat's May 2019 NASDAQ IPO at a roughly $14 billion peak market cap - Obvious held a 9% stake at the time, one of several public outcomes alongside Planet Labs' 2021 SPAC listing and Recursion Pharmaceuticals' NAS…
ClimateHealthcareConsumerAI
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New York, NY
Founded 2010
$1.5B (across nine funds)
Assets Managed
BuzzFeed's SPAC merger in December 2021 at a $1.5 billion valuation - Lerer Hippeau was an early backer of the media company, alongside earlier public listings for Warby Parker and Casper
ConsumerHealthcareFintechEnterprise Software
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Princeton, NJ
Founded 1995
$1.5B (as of 2023)
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - SOSV instead measures itself by cumulative deep-tech scale: more than 1,000 portfolio companies since inception, with in-house wet labs and hardware fabrication facilities built…
Deep TechBiotechClimateHardware
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São Paulo, Brazil
Founded 2005
$1.5B (across 10 funds)
Assets Managed
99's 2018 acquisition by Didi Chuxing for roughly $1 billion - one of the earliest major venture-backed exits to come out of Latin America's ride-hailing sector
FintechMarketplacesLogisticsEdtech
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2015
Lyft's 2019 Nasdaq IPO - one of NFX's earliest network-effects bets, backed years before the ride-sharing company's public debut, alongside fellow early portfolio company DoorDash
MarketplacesAIConsumerSaaS
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2010
$1.5B+ (across five funds)
Assets Managed
Blue River Technologies' acquisition by John Deere - one of Dror Berman's earliest and most defining bets, alongside Uber and SoFi both reaching public listings and Astra completing a SPAC merger
AIDeep TechClimate
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No confirmed exit yet - OSE operates a deliberately patient, evergreen model with no fixed fund life, and its 125-plus Oxford spinout companies remain privately held with a combined value exceeding £1.1 billion
Deep TechHealthcareIndustrial Tech
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Bonn, Germany
Founded 2005
€1.4B+ (following Fund IV launch)
Assets Managed
CureVac's August 2020 Nasdaq IPO - HTGF backed the mRNA vaccine developer as a seed-stage investor years before it became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic
Deep TechHealthcareClimateEnterprise Software
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$1.3B (as of 2020)
Assets Managed
Zulily's 2013 Nasdaq IPO - Maveron led the ecommerce company's Series A with roughly $5 million and held a 22% stake worth more than $1 billion at IPO, on a $4.6 billion valuation
ConsumerEcommerceFintechHealthcare
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Bengaluru, India
Founded 2006
$1.3B (across seven funds)
Assets Managed
PolicyBazaar's 2021 IPO on the NSE and BSE - Chiratae was an early backer of the Indian insurance aggregator, one of five IPOs the firm has taken portfolio companies through
Consumer InternetFintechHealthcareDeep Tech
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2004
Nest Labs' $3.2 billion acquisition by Google in January 2014 - Rob Coneybeer personally led Shasta's Series A investment, a roughly 20x return that essentially repaid the firm's entire second fund
Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurityDeep TechConsumer
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 1986
$1.25B (latest funds)
Assets Managed
New Relic's December 2014 NYSE IPO under ticker NEWR - one of several public listings across Trinity's four-decade history, alongside LoopNet's 1999 IPO and Zulily's 2013 IPO
Enterprise SoftwareFintechConsumerAI
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Firmwide AUM not disclosed; Fund VI reported at ~$1.24B (2024)
Assets Managed
Supercell's 2016 sale to Tencent in a deal valued at roughly $8.6 billion - one of the largest exits in European venture history
AIEnterprise SoftwareFintechHealthcare
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 2012
No confirmed public exit yet - Project A's model is operational company-building rather than harvesting, and its clearest current proof point is Trade Republic, now managing €100 billion in customer assets while still pr…
FintechDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareAI
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Sydney, Australia
Founded 2014
$1.2B+ (across all funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed public exit yet - AirTree's clearest proof points are current unicorns Canva, Airwallex, and Linktree, all still privately held among the firm's eight billion-dollar-plus portfolio companies
FintechConsumerEnterprise SoftwareClimate
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Anthemis Digital Acquisitions I Corp's 2021 market debut - an all-female-led fintech SPAC founder Amy Nauiokas led to market, alongside real early-portfolio outcomes at Zoopla and Betterment
FintechInsurtech
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Munich, Germany
Founded 2015
$1.2B (across all funds)
Assets Managed
Next Insurance's $2.6 billion acquisition by Munich Re itself in 2025 - the largest outcome in the fund's decade-long history, alongside Mnubo's 2019 acquisition by AspenTech
FintechCybersecurityClimateEnterprise Software
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Mountain View, CA
Founded 2011
$1.1B+ (Fund III closed at $300M, April 2026)
Assets Managed
Xometry's June 2021 Nasdaq IPO - Partner Baris Guzel led the manufacturing marketplace's Series B in 2017 as his very first BMW i Ventures investment, and rang the Nasdaq bell alongside the company's team at its debut
MobilityClimateAI
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Paris, France
Founded 1998
€1.1B+ raised since inception (2025)
Assets Managed
AIHealthcareEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 2018
$1.05B+ (across funds)
Assets Managed
No public exit documented - BITKRAFT invests across games, esports, and immersive media at all stages
GamingCrypto
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Vienna, Austria
Founded 2011
€1B+ (mid-2020s)
Assets Managed
No single defined public exit documented - Speedinvest's portfolio includes fintech infrastructure companies like Bitpanda
FintechAIHealthcare
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Santa Clara, CA
Founded 2015
$300M deployed toward a $1B target by 2026
Assets Managed
No single defined public exit documented - ServiceNow Ventures backs early-stage companies extending the Now Platform
Enterprise SoftwareAI
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New York, NY
Founded 2015
Jet.com's approximately $3.3 billion acquisition by Walmart in September 2016 - Brad Svrluga was an early investor via the firm's predecessor, High Peaks Ventures
FintechConsumerHealthcareEnterprise Software
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San Jose, CA
Founded 1993
$1B AI Fund (2024); historically ~$250-300M deployed annually
Assets Managed
HashiCorp's December 2021 Nasdaq IPO at a roughly $14 billion valuation - Cisco's 2021 year-in-review named it alongside Confluent and GitLab as portfolio IPO milestones; HashiCorp was later taken private in IBM's Februa…
AICybersecurityCloud InfrastructureEnterprise Software
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New York, NY
Founded 2003
Etsy's 2015 IPO - USV backed the handmade-goods marketplace in 2008 when it looked like a niche bet against Amazon
Consumer InternetFintechCryptoMarketplaces
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New York, NY
Founded 2000
$1B (latest fund, 2023)
Assets Managed
Datadog's 2019 Nasdaq IPO - RTP Global was an early Series A-through-D investor in the observability platform, which priced at $27 per share and had grown to a market capitalization of roughly $93 billion by July 2026
AIEnterprise SoftwareFintechDeveloper Tools
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€1B+ (more than $1B)
Assets Managed
AUTO1 Group's 2021 Frankfurt Stock Exchange IPO at approximately €7.9 billion - Germany's largest tech IPO at the time, with DN Capital exiting 95% of its stake
FintechSaaSConsumer InternetAI
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$1B+ (following $320M raise, June 2026)
Assets Managed
UiPath's April 2021 Nasdaq IPO at a $35 billion valuation - Seedcamp was the process automation company's earliest backer, one of three decacorns (alongside Wise and Revolut) that trace back to its first check
FintechSaaSAICybersecurity
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San Mateo, CA
Founded 2015
Cloudflare's acquisition of Area 1 Security - one of three Forgepoint exits Co-Founder Alberto Yépez personally led, alongside Attivo Networks (acquired by SentinelOne) and BehavioSec (acquired by LexisNexis Risk Solutio…
CybersecurityAI SecurityInfrastructure Software
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2017
$1B+ (across all funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed public exit yet - Congruent's flagship bets (AMP Robotics, Fervo Energy, Span.IO, Meati Foods, Parallel Systems) remain private, still working toward commercial scale across climate hardware and energy
ClimateEnergyMobilityFood & Agriculture
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No single dollar-verified signature exit - Amit Anand has personally led three real exits (Zipdial to Twitter, TradeGecko to Intuit, Travelmob to HomeAway), while the firm's four unicorns (Livspace, Kredivo, Moglix, Buil…
SaaSB2BFintechConsumer Tech
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Currencycloud's acquisition by Visa in 2021 - Notion was an early investor in the cross-border payments platform, one of the firm's clearest proof points alongside continued backing of GoCardless
Enterprise SoftwareFintechAI
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No traditional exit yet - Antler's model is building companies from Day Zero rather than harvesting existing ones, and its clearest proof points are two current unicorns: Airalo (eSIM marketplace) and Lovable (Swedish AI…
ConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFintechAI
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Mountain View, CA
Founded 2017
No confirmed exit yet - Gradient's clearest proof points are current unicorns WRITER and Lambda AI, both still privately held, within a broader 175-plus company portfolio
AIDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintech
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2011
$900M (Fund VI, 2024)
Assets Managed
No single defined public exit documented - Foresite invests across biotech and life-sciences platform technologies
Healthcare
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2006
$900M (Fund X, 2025)
Assets Managed
Shopify's 2015 NYSE IPO - Felicis participated in the company's $15 million Series A and rode it to a market capitalization of roughly $148.3 billion by July 2026
AICybersecurityDefense TechHealthcare
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2012
$900M (Fund 6, Fund 6 Select & Amplify Bio, June 2025)
Assets Managed
Datadog's 2019 Nasdaq IPO - Amplify was one of the company's first institutional investors, more than a decade before the observability platform reached a market capitalization of roughly $93 billion by July 2026
AIDeveloper ToolsCybersecurityEnterprise Software
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$820M+ (across five funds)
Assets Managed
Careem's 2019 acquisition by Uber for $3.1 billion - BECO was an early backer of the Gulf's dominant ride-hailing company, one of two billion-dollar-plus exits in the firm's track record alongside Property Finder
FintechEnterprise SoftwareConsumerAI
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2009
$800M+ deployed (since inception)
Assets Managed
PillPack's $753 million acquisition by Amazon in September 2018 - Kevin Colleran was an early investor in the online pharmacy
ConsumerFintechEnterprise SoftwareCrypto
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2013
$800M (across four funds)
Assets Managed
DoorDash's 2020 NYSE IPO under ticker DASH - Pear's roughly $1.9 million investment, made as one of the firm's first five deals in 2013, was worth more than $440 million at listing, a nearly 233x return on the firm's ent…
FintechAICybersecurityHealthcare
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Los Altos, CA
Founded 2017
$800M+ (following two additional $150M funds, 2024)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - Toyota Ventures' clearest proof point remains Nuro, the self-driving delivery company it backed early, which stays private, alongside continued frontier bets in generative AI, e-fuels, space commerci…
AIRoboticsClimateEnterprise Software
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded 2007
Twistlock's 2019 acquisition by Palo Alto Networks for $410 million - Senior Partner Ofer Schreiber was Twistlock's original seed investor
CybersecurityAI Security
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$770M (Fund X + Acceleration Fund IV, 2025)
Assets Managed
Redfin's 2017 Nasdaq IPO - one of several Madrona 'day one to IPO' partnerships, alongside Smartsheet's 2018 listing and Impinj's public debut
AICloud InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketplaces
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 1991
$750M+ (across five funds)
Assets Managed
DoubleVerify's NYSE IPO under ticker DV in April 2021 at a valuation exceeding $3 billion - Blumberg's early 2008 investment delivered a reported 98x return, one of five unicorns and seven IPOs across the firm's portfoli…
AIFintechCybersecurityEnterprise Software
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded 2018
$720M+ (across five funds)
Assets Managed
Google's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, completed March 2026 - the largest-ever buyout of a venture-backed startup, and Cyberstarts partnered with Wiz's founders on day one of the company's existence
CybersecurityCloud SecurityAI Security
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Seraphim Space Investment Trust's own IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 - an unusually direct exit for a venture firm, since the growth-stage fund itself went public, alongside nine unicorns and six IPOs across th…
Deep TechAIDefense Tech
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2013
$600M (Wing Four, 2023)
Assets Managed
Snowflake's 2020 NYSE IPO - Wing was a first-check investor in the data cloud company, which priced at $120 per share and closed its first trading day valued at over $70 billion
AIData InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
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New York, NY
Founded 2007
$550M (across two new funds, as of October 2025)
Assets Managed
Flatiron Health's $1.9 billion acquisition by Roche in 2018 - BoxGroup was an early investor in the healthcare data company, one of several major exits alongside PillPack, Matterport, and Trello
FintechEnterprise SoftwareConsumerDeep Tech
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Stockholm, Sweden
Founded 2003
€500M+ across funds (approximate)
Assets Managed
Spotify's 2018 NYSE direct listing - an early Creandum investment and one of Europe's defining tech IPOs
Enterprise SoftwareFintechHealthcareGaming
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2017
No singular household-name exit - Village Global's model spreads bets widely across 233 companies rather than concentrating on a few outsized wins, producing 9 unicorns and 22 acquisitions cumulatively
FintechConsumerAIHealthcare
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 2016
$500M (across three funds)
Assets Managed
No public exit - BlueYard's crypto-native thesis means outcomes come as token appreciation rather than IPOs; the firm's clearest proof points are co-founders O'Leary and Whitmire's pre-BlueYard bets on Wunderlist (acquir…
CryptoDeep TechDefense Tech
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 2012
$500M (new funds announced 2025: Cherry V + opportunity fund)
Assets Managed
AUTO1 Group's 2021 Frankfurt debut, which implied a market value of around €10.6 billion on day one
AIEnterprise SoftwareFintechClimate
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Santa Monica, CA
Founded 2015
~$500M (across its main fund and dedicated vehicles, per third-party reporting)
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - BOLD's clearest proof points are two portfolio companies that reached the public markets via Hong Kong listings: Insilico Medicine (HKEX: 3696) and Deep Longevity (SEHK: 0575)
AIHealthcareRoboticsClimate
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No standalone AUM disclosed; Phoenix Court family reported $500M first close (2022)
Assets Managed
Wise's 2021 direct listing on the London Stock Exchange, valuing the fintech company at about $11 billion
FintechConsumerMarketplacesEnterprise Software
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2015
$465M (across funds)
Assets Managed
IonQ's 2021 SPAC merger with dMY Technology Group III, becoming the world's first publicly traded pure-play quantum computing hardware and software company (NYSE: IONQ) - Airbus Ventures was directly named a key IonQ inv…
Deep TechAIDefense TechClimate
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Portola Valley, CA
Founded 2019
$450M (Fund IV + Select Fund, closed May 2022)
Assets Managed
Livongo's $18.5 billion acquisition by Teladoc Health in October 2020 - Threshold (then DFJ) backed Livongo in its earlier stages, making this one of the firm's largest realized exits
Enterprise SoftwareFintechHealthcareDeveloper Tools
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
DoorDash's 2020 IPO - Semil Shah invested in DoorDash's $2.5 million seed round in 2013, one of Haystack's very first bets, made within six months of founding the firm
ConsumerCloud/SaaSAIAutonomy
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Cambridge, MA
Founded 1977
Oculus VR's 2014 acquisition by Facebook for approximately $2.3 billion - Matrix backed the company at an early stage
AIInfrastructureFintechSemiconductors
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
No public exits yet - the firm instead measures itself by founder outcomes: head Roy Bahat cites 93 founders who've become millionaires from Bloomberg Beta-backed companies as the metric he's proudest of, ahead of raw re…
AIEnterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of Work
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Washington, D.C.
Founded 2005
$400M+ (Revolution Ventures funds specifically)
Assets Managed
Booker's $150 million acquisition by Mindbody in March 2018 - Revolution Ventures participated in Booker's Series A and B rounds, one of several exits including FitnessKeeper (acquired by Asics) and OrderUp (acquired by …
ConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFintech
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Santa Clara, CA
Founded 2006
Enphase Energy's NASDAQ IPO - one of more than a dozen exits Global Head Anand Kamannavar has led, alongside Adesto Technologies' NASDAQ listing and Voltaix's acquisition by Air Liquide
Deep TechAIIndustrial Tech
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2015
$400M+ (deployed in FY25)
Assets Managed
Advolve.AI's acquisition by iFood in 2025 - a Prosus Ventures portfolio company acquired by iFood, itself a wholly-owned Prosus subsidiary since 2022 and Latin America's dominant food delivery platform
FintechAIEnterprise SoftwareConsumer
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2008
$400M target, Fund V, announced January 2025 ($160M secured at announcement)
Assets Managed
Affirm and Opendoor, both of which the firm's own team page states Raymond Tonsing backed from seed through to IPO.
Enterprise ApplicationsFintechDeep TechAI
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
$365M (across funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed exit yet for Zetta's own portfolio - founder Mark Gorenberg's prior 20-year track record at Hummer Winblad includes real, verified exits at Omniture (Adobe), AdForce (CMGI), NetDynamics (Sun Microsystems), a…
AIEnterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools
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Toronto, Canada
Founded 2017
$350M+ (Fund II, $471M CAD, closed 2019)
Assets Managed
Layer 6 AI's acquisition by TD Bank Group in January 2018, roughly 15 months after founding - co-founders Jordan Jacobs and Tomi Poutanen sold the company before turning to build Radical Ventures full-time (deal value un…
AIMachine LearningDeep Tech
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New York, NY
Founded 2019
$330M (Inspired III)
Assets Managed
Financial TechnologyHealthcareArtificial IntelligenceWorkforce and Education
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2014
$312M (Kindred Ventures III and Selector I, 2023)
Assets Managed
Sector-Agnostic
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Portola Valley, CA
Founded 2008
$300M+ (across three funds)
Assets Managed
Yandex's NASDAQ IPO and Xometry's NASDAQ IPO - two of Almaz's clearest public-market outcomes, alongside QIK's acquisition by Skype, Sensity Systems' acquisition by Verizon, and Acumatica's sale to EQT
AIDeep TechCybersecurityEnterprise Software
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Nairobi, Kenya
Founded 1999
$300M+ (across all funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed public exit yet - Andela, backed three years before reaching a $1.5 billion valuation in 2021, remains TLcom's clearest proof point as one of Africa's few non-fintech unicorns, though it stays privately held
FintechAgritechEdtechMobility
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2004
$300M+ (recent funds)
Assets Managed
SendGrid's 2017 IPO, followed by its 2019 acquisition by Twilio - Uncork backed the email infrastructure company as a seed investor years before either milestone
Consumer InternetSaaSMarketplaces
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ThredUp's 2021 Nasdaq IPO - NextView backed the online consignment marketplace as a seed-stage investor years before its public debut
MarketplacesConsumerDigital HealthVertical SaaS
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 2013
€300M (Rocket Internet balance-sheet allocation, 2024)
Assets Managed
FintechSoftwareHealth TechConsumer Tech
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Washington, DC
Founded 2020
$300M (Fund III, 2025)
Assets Managed
ManufacturingLogisticsDefenseEnergy
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2005
Twitter, Facebook, and PayPal's early growth - SV Angel and founder Ron Conway's Angel Investors LP were among the first checks into all three before they became household names
Consumer InternetEarly-Stage Technology
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San Mateo, CA
Founded 1982
$265M (Fund XIII, 2023)
Assets Managed
Enterprise SoftwareAICybersecurityCloud Infrastructure
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2012
$260M (Fund IV $140M + Mustang I $120M, 2023)
Assets Managed
Dollar Shave Club's approximately $1 billion acquisition by Unilever in 2016 - an early Cowboy Ventures investment, and one of the deals that shaped Aileen Lee's broader 'unicorn' framework
ConsumerFintechEnterprise Software
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~$260M (across three funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed public exit yet - Novastar's clearest proof points are its early bets on Bridge International Academies, Sanergy, mPharma, and SolarNow, all real, still-growing companies serving East and West Africa's mass-…
ConsumerClimateHealthcareEnterprise Software
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$250M (2025)
Assets Managed
No single defined public exit documented - Golden Gate backs early-stage fintech, mobility, and SaaS startups across Southeast Asia
FintechMarketplacesEnterprise Software
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Stuttgart, Germany
Founded 2016
Up to €250M allocated (2023 announcement)
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - confirmed outcomes include Fleetonomy's 2020 sale to digital infrastructure company Via and Greyp Bikes' 2021 acquisition by Porsche itself, though neither transaction's value w…
MobilityClimateEnterprise Software
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2015
The Athletic's 2022 acquisition by The New York Times for $525 million - Precursor backed the sports media company years before the deal, as one of founder Charles Hudson's earliest bets
SoftwareHardwareConsumer
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New York, NY
Founded 2010
$250M (Fund VII, 2025)
Assets Managed
CybersecurityAI InfrastructurePhysical AIDeveloper-First Infrastructure
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2008
$208M Fund IV close, February 2025, bringing total firm AUM to approximately $400M
Assets Managed
Enterprise SoftwareFintechConsumerHealth
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2018
$200M (Fund I)
Assets Managed
No public exit documented - Makers Fund backs game studios and consumer entertainment platforms globally
Gaming
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Philadelphia, PA
Founded 1999
Sprinklr's 2021 NYSE IPO, priced at $16 per share and valuing the customer experience management company at roughly $4 billion
Consumer InternetEnterprise SoftwareMedia TechFintech
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2004
$200M+ (per fund, not cumulative)
Assets Managed
Uber's 2019 IPO - First Round led the company's first-ever institutional funding round in 2010, a roughly $1.25 million bet that became one of the highest-multiple returns in venture history
Consumer InternetMarketplacesFintechSaaS
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2021
$186M (Fund I, closed 2022)
Assets Managed
No confirmed exit yet - Shield's clearest proof point is its oversubscribed $186 million debut fund, closed 55% above target, and its strategic partnership with L3Harris Technologies to pursue dual-use defense and commer…
AICybersecurityDefense TechDeep Tech
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São Paulo, Brazil
Founded 2016
$175M+ (Fund III alone raised $100M, 2021)
Assets Managed
Méliuz's IPO on Brazil's B3 exchange - Canary counts the cashback and fintech company among its key portfolio successes, alongside continued backing of 99 and Clara
FintechEnterprise SoftwareConsumerClimate
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2012
$175M+ (Fund III)
Assets Managed
SGNL's acquisition by CrowdStrike in January 2026 - Costanoa backed the identity security startup years before the deal, alongside its earlier VictorOps exit to Splunk in 2018
Applied AIAI & Data InfrastructureCybersecurityNational Security
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New York, NY
Founded 2020
$175M+ (Fund II + Opportunity Fund)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - Equal Ventures has focused its $175 million in capital on bringing software into legacy industries like insurance, climate, and supply chain
ClimateInsuranceRetailSupply Chain
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
$175M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
Robinhood's 2021 IPO - Susa's very first investment was a $250,000 seed check into Robinhood in 2013, a bet that grew into a roughly $400 million return, close to a 1,000x multiple
Enterprise SoftwareFintechHealthcare
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New York, NY
Founded 2013
$160M+ (Fund III)
Assets Managed
Oort's acquisition by Cisco - one of several strategic exits in 645's portfolio, alongside LeagueApps' acquisition by Accel-KKR
FintechEnterpriseHealthtechCybersecurity
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New York, NY
Founded 2009
$160M+ (Fund VI)
Assets Managed
No public portfolio exit yet - Eniac has focused exclusively on seed-stage investing since 2009
TechnologySoftwareRoboticsSaaS
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Los Angeles, CA
Founded 2016
$160M+ (Fund IV)
Assets Managed
SGNL's acquisition by CrowdStrike for $740 million in 2026 - Fika backed the identity security startup as an early investor, alongside earlier exits like Openpath Security to Motorola Solutions
B2B SoftwareFintechMarketplacesAI Services
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$160M+ (Fund V)
Assets Managed
Performix's acquisition by Honeywell in 2021 - one of several strategic exits in Mercury's two-decade Midcontinent-focused portfolio, alongside PactSafe's acquisition by Ironclad
AIBlockchainFrontier TechnologiesDefense & Security
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New York, NY
Founded 2013
$160M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
CoreOS's acquisition by Red Hat - one of several enterprise infrastructure exits in Work-Bench's portfolio, alongside Semmle's acquisition by GitHub
Enterprise SoftwareAI/MLDeveloper ToolsInfrastructure
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
$150M+ (Fund III, closed 2022)
Assets Managed
No confirmed large exit yet - Root's portfolio, including Particle and Pivot Bio, remains largely private, reflecting the longer development timelines typical of deep tech and hardware-enabled startups
Deep TechIndustrial TechAI
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Washington, DC
Founded 2017
$150M+ (seed fund)
Assets Managed
AppHarvest became Rise of the Rest's first publicly traded portfolio company after its SPAC debut, though it is no longer independently traded today - the fund's first-ever investment was in Anduril, before it became a d…
Geographically Broad Early-Stage Investing (Outside Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York)
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2008
$150M (latest closed fund)
Assets Managed
Lyft's 2019 Nasdaq IPO - Ann Miura-Ko's seed bet in the company then known as Zimride is among the best-known pre-seed checks in venture capital
Consumer InternetSaaSMarketplacesFintech
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Mountain View, CA
Founded 2012
Not disclosed ($150M NEXT Fund, 2017; undisclosed AI-focused Q Fund, 2018)
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - Samsung NEXT's scale is cumulative instead: more than 230 investments and 330+ companies backed since inception, run by a 38-person team spanning Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Ne…
AIFintechHealthcareCloud Infrastructure
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2010
$145M+ (Fund VI)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet documented - Bullpen's distinct 'post-seed' strategy focuses on backing overlooked companies after their earliest funding round
Post-Seed / Early-Stage Technology (Generalist)
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New York, NY
Founded 2015
$134M+ (Fund II)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - Harlem Capital has grown from a Harlem living-room angel syndicate into a $134 million institutional seed fund across two funds
Industry-Agnostic (Enterprise & Consumer Technology)Diverse Founders
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2009
$130M+ (Fund VI)
Assets Managed
Digit's acquisition by Oportun for approximately $212.9 million - one of the clearest exits associated with Freestyle's broader seed-stage portfolio
Generalist Early-Stage Technology
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San Diego, CA
Founded 2009
$130M (Fund III, 2023)
Assets Managed
BiotechHealthcareFintechConsumer Products
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2017
$125M+ (across multiple funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed exit yet - Hustle Fund's portfolio, including HoneyBook, Nova Credit, and Berbix, remains largely private, though early bets on The Pill Club and Webflow highlight the firm's pattern-recognition at the earli…
FintechHealthcareCryptoEnterprise Software
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2014
$111M debut institutional fund, announced 2022
Assets Managed
FintechEcommerceHealthConsumer
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$100M (Fund III, closed 2022)
Assets Managed
No single defined public exit documented - CRE VC backs African tech companies in fintech, education, and digital infrastructure
FintechEnterprise Software
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£100M (Fund I)
Assets Managed
No confirmed exit yet - as a young fund with first deals beginning in 2019-2020, Impact X's portfolio of 47 investments remains largely private, with top current valuations reaching $2 billion
FintechConsumerHealthcare
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$100M+ (recent funds)
Assets Managed
Instagram's 2012 acquisition by Facebook for roughly $1 billion - founder Steve Anderson was Instagram's very first investor
Consumer InternetMobileEarly-Stage Software
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São Paulo, Brazil
Founded 2018
$100M (Fund II, 2022)
Assets Managed
Sector-AgnosticFintechHealthcareConsumer
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Bengaluru, India
Founded 2011
$100M (Fund V, 2025)
Assets Managed
FintechEdtechHealthcareConsumer Internet
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New York, NY
Founded 2014
$100M+ across three investment vehicles
Assets Managed
B2B SoftwareVertical SaaSFintechHealth Tech
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Founded 2011
$98M (Fund III, 2023)
Assets Managed
SaaSFintechMarketplacesLogistics
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Cambridge, MA
Founded 2009
$95M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
PillPack's 2018 acquisition by Amazon for approximately $1 billion - Founder Collective was among the pharmacy startup's first seed investors
Seed-StageSector-Agnostic
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2016
$90M fund raised in 2021, following an initial $5M first fund
Assets Managed
Deep TechClimateSynthetic BiologyFood & Agriculture
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
$85M (across two funds)
Assets Managed
Chime's Nasdaq IPO in June 2025 under ticker CHYM - one of Homebrew's earliest bets, the company priced at $27 a share, popped 37% on debut, and reached an $11.6 billion valuation
FintechDeveloper ToolsAI
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2008
$80M Fund III close, 2020, with over $300M deployed across four active vehicles
Assets Managed
TravelTransportationHospitalityMobility
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Nairobi, Kenya
Founded 2019
$78M (across two funds)
Assets Managed
No confirmed exit yet - Enza's portfolio companies have instead attracted strong follow-on validation, including Guidewheel's Greycroft-led Series A and Shara's Index Ventures-led Series A, both companies Enza backed at …
FintechHealthcareClimateEnterprise Software
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Abuja, Nigeria
Founded 2016
$64M+ (Fund II first close, November 2025)
Assets Managed
Paystack's 2020 acquisition by Stripe for approximately $200 million - Ventures Platform was an early institutional investor in the Nigerian payments company, still the largest startup acquisition in Nigerian history at …
FintechHealthcareEnterprise SoftwareAI
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Port Louis, Mauritius
Founded 2020
$64M (across funds; debut fund closed at $36M)
Assets Managed
No confirmed exit yet - Launch Africa's scale is the story instead: 180-plus startups backed across 25 African countries, funded by 400-plus limited partners, making it the continent's most active early-stage VC fund
FintechHealthcareClimateEdtech
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Brooklyn, NY
Founded 2017
$60M (Fund II, 2021)
Assets Managed
FintechEcommerceHealthcareB2B Software
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Berlin, Germany
Founded 2011
Not publicly disclosed (Fund III closed at $60M, 2015; multiple funds since)
Assets Managed
Zendesk, Christoph Janz's very first angel check, went public in 2014 and was later taken private in a $10.2 billion deal led by Hellman & Friedman and Permira in 2022
SaaSMarketplacesAIFintech
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Santa Monica, CA
Founded 2011
Early investor in Honey Science, the browser-extension startup PayPal acquired in 2020 for about $4B
ConsumerFintechSaaS
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2009
$42M+ (current fund)
Assets Managed
Twilio's 2016 IPO - Manu Kumar was Twilio's earliest investor, backing the company years before it became a public cloud communications giant
Pre-SeedNew TechnologyNew Markets
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2014
$40M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - Designer Fund's portfolio includes still-private companies like Stripe and Notion, both valued in the tens of billions, alongside Gusto and Framer
Design-Led Early-Stage SoftwareHealthBusiness Software
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$36.5M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - M25 has backed more than 150 Midwest startups since 2015, whose combined follow-on funding exceeds $600 million
Midwest Early-Stage TechSoftwareFintechHealthcare IT
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New York, NY
Founded 2014
$29M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
Rent the Runway's 2021 Nasdaq IPO - Female Founders Fund was an early backer of Jennifer Hyman's marketplace years before its public debut
Digital HealthAI-First Vertical SoftwareBeauty & Personal CareDeep Tech
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2015
Part of GitLab's $1.5M seed round in 2015, held through its 2021 IPO for a reported ~420x return
SaaSConsumer Internet
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2025
$22M+ (debut fund)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - Modern Technical Fund closed its debut fund in 2025 and is still building its earliest cohort of technical founders
InfrastructureDataSecurityDeveloper Tooling
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Founded 2022
$20M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - Cambrian closed its second $20 million fintech-focused fund in 2025
FintechFintech Infrastructure
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$13.5M+ (debut fund)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - Symphonic Capital closed its debut $13.5 million fund in April 2025
HealthWealthClimate Resilience
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New York, NY
Founded 2022
$10M+ (latest fund)
Assets Managed
No public exit yet - The Fintech Fund closed its $10 million second fund in September 2024
FintechCryptoDeFi
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New York, NY
Founded 2021
$8M (initial fund, 2021)
Assets Managed
No public exit documented - Not Boring Capital's first investments were fintech and AI startups
FintechAI
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Bengaluru, India
Founded 2015
₹4,400 crore (2026)
Assets Managed
SaaSFintechConsumer InternetDigital Health
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New York, NY
Founded 2011
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No single defined public exit documented - Valor bridges Silicon Valley and Brazil, investing in cross-border tech companies
FintechConsumer Internet
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Mexico City, Mexico
Founded 2012
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
Cornershop's acquisition by Uber - an early ALLVP investment and one of the defining exits in Mexican tech
FintechMarketplacesHealthcare
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Beijing, China
Founded 2011
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No single defined public exit documented - ZhenFund has backed over 800 portfolio companies including 30+ unicorns
Consumer InternetFintech
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2016
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No public exit documented - South Park Commons backs founders at the idea stage, before a company typically exists
Enterprise SoftwareConsumer Internet
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2014
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No public exit documented - Contrary backs university-founded startups sourced through its network of campus chapters
Enterprise SoftwareConsumer Internet
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New York, NY
Founded 2020
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No public equity exit documented - Variant invests in foundational crypto protocols, including an early stake in Uniswap
CryptoDeFi
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Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2012
Not Disclosed
Assets Managed
Early investor in Ring, the smart doorbell company Amazon acquired in 2018 for a reported ~$1B
RoboticsConsumer
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Los Angeles, CA
Founded 2011
Not Disclosed
Assets Managed
Co-founded and grew Dollar Shave Club, which Unilever purchased for about $1B in 2016
Consumer Internet
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Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2000
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No specific blockbuster exit publicly listed - Storm's track record instead spans more than 200 investments and multiple acquisitions across two-plus decades of early-stage B2B enterprise software investing
Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurityAIDeveloper Tools
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Not publicly disclosed (multiple $50-100M funds raised)
Assets Managed
No confirmed public exit yet - Carousell, one of Quest's earliest and largest bets, has explored a SPAC listing but remains private, alongside continued growth at ShopBack and 99.co
MarketplacesFintechConsumer
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Not publicly disclosed (300+ portfolio companies across seed to growth)
Assets Managed
Tokopedia, East Ventures' most famous early bet, merged with Gojek to form GoTo and completed one of Indonesia's largest-ever IPOs on the Jakarta exchange in 2022
Consumer InternetFintechMarketplacesLogistics
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Tokyo, Japan
Founded 2013
Not disclosed (70+ portfolio companies globally)
Assets Managed
Lyft's 2019 Nasdaq IPO - Rakuten led the ride-sharing company's $530 million Series E in March 2015, investing $300 million for an 11.9% stake at the time
Consumer InternetFintechMobilityMarketplaces
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2016
Not disclosed (100+ companies backed, including 15 unicorns and 6 IPOs)
Assets Managed
Cloudflare's 2019 NYSE IPO, ranked by Dealroom as an M12 portfolio outcome valued at $4.4 billion - sourced from a secondary database rather than Microsoft's own materials, so treated as secondary-verified
AIEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2016
Not disclosed (50+ portfolio companies)
Assets Managed
Joby Aviation's August 2021 public listing - JetBlue Technology Ventures (now SKY VC) was an early backer of the electric air taxi company, and its former president Bonny Simi left the fund to join Joby directly as Head …
MobilityClimateEnterprise Software
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2010
Not disclosed (150+ investments since launch; 200+ and ~30 exits at 15-year mark)
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - Arvind Purushotham's tenure has included Silver Tail Systems' acquisition by EMC among more than 120 investments, with the broader firm marking its 15th year at more than 200 in…
FintechAIEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
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Not disclosed (145 investments to date)
Assets Managed
No disclosed public exit - Barclays UK Ventures instead operates as an internal build-and-invest studio, having made 145 investments and incubated ventures directly rather than only writing outside checks
FintechCybersecurityData & AI
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Lagos, Nigeria
Founded 2011
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - EchoVC instead measures itself by geographic reach, having expanded from its original African focus into Southeast Asia and Latin America, and by its EchoVC+ growth-stage partne…
FintechHealthcareMobilityEnterprise Software
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Lagos, Nigeria
Founded 2021
Not publicly disclosed (53 startups backed via Fund I, 2022)
Assets Managed
No confirmed fund-level exit yet - Voltron itself launched in 2021, though co-founder Olumide Soyombo's prior personal angel investment in Paystack (acquired by Stripe in 2020) lends the firm real pre-existing credibilit…
FintechHealthcareEnterprise Software
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Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
No single dollar-verified signature exit - VentureSouq's scale is cumulative instead: more than 300 investments, nine unicorns, one IPO, and 26 acquisitions across its portfolio, including Substack, Tabby, and Zoomcar
FintechClimateEnterprise Software
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2005
Not disclosed as traditional AUM ($500K standard check per company; YC Continuity growth fund)
Assets Managed
Coinbase's 2021 Nasdaq direct listing at an $85 billion valuation - the most valuable company in YC history at time of listing
AISaaSConsumer InternetFintech
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Landshut, Germany
Founded 1995
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
Deep TechHealthcareClimateEnterprise Software
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Cambridge, UK
Founded 1997
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
Deep TechAICybersecurityHealthcare
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San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
Developer ToolsCloud InfrastructureEnterprise Software
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Mumbai, India
Founded 2013
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
Enterprise SoftwareFintechConsumerSaaS
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Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
Machine IntelligenceData ScienceDistributed SystemsAutomation
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New York, NY
Founded 2016
Not publicly disclosed
Assets Managed
Artificial IntelligenceFintechBiotechDefense Tech
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