Looking for one of stable investors, are you a growing startup or a mid-level company? If so, then you arrived at the right spot. Throughout this post, you can find top venture capital firms throughout India and individual founders with experience collaborating with different VC firms.
US VCs
Benchmark was founded in 1995 in Menlo Park, California with a focus on early-stage funding. The firm has four founders: Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, Bob Kagle, and Bruce Dunlevie. Benchmark has invested in a number of well-known startups and unicorns. For example, they invested in eBay in 1997, and later Snapchat, Instagram, Uber, Twitter, and Dropbox.
Canvas Venture was founded in California in 2013. Gary Little and Rebecca Lynn are the founders of the firm. The firm dedicated itself to investments in companies related to the technology industry.
Lightspeed Venture Partnerswas founded in 2000 by Ravi Mhatre, Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Peter Nieh. Their headquarters are in Menlo Park, California. The firm has made notable investments, one being Snapchat. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests primarily in enterprise, cleantech, and technology.
Venrock was founded in 1969 in Palo Alto, California by Laurance Rockefeller. The name of the firm comes from the combination of "Venture" and "Rockefeller". They mainly focus on early stage and startup companies in IT and other technology related areas. The firm has made investments in large companies such as Apple, and Intel.
Accel Partners was founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and is based in Palo Alto, California. It is an early and growth stage VC firm. The firm focuses on technology areas such as consumers, mobile, and security technology. Their notable investment include Facebook, Slack, Spotify, and Jet.com.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) was founded in 1977 by Dick Kramlich, Frank Bonsal, and Chuck Newhall. The firm primarily invests in areas such as consumer technology, financial technology, and e-commerce.
Unusual Ventures was established in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California. They have invested in companies notable companies Transposit and Visor.
Aspect Ventures was founded in 2014 and is located in Palo Alto, California. The founders are Jennifer Fonstad and Theresia Gouw. Their investments include HotelTonight and TalkIQ.
Jim Breyer founded Breyer Capital in 2006 based in Menlo Park, California. Among the investments are Facebook, Etsy, and Datalogix.
IVP has existed since 1980, founded by Reid Dennis. Based in Menlo Park, California, they have made many investments such as Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox and DoubleVerify.
Cowboy Ventures was founded by Aileen Lee in 2012 in Palo Alto, California. They focus on seed and early-stage digital startups as investments. Among their investments is Crunchbase.
Sequoia Capital was founded in 1972 by Donald T. Valentine in Menlo Park, California. The company itself specializes in seed, startup, early and growth stage companies. Sequoia Capital invests in the technology industry. The firms combined market value is around $1.4 trillion from their investment made before (these include: Apple, Google, PayPal, YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp).
Menlo Ventures was established in 1976 thanks to H. DuBose Montgomery. Since then they have made many notable investments such as Siri. The firm itself prefers to invest in companies in the area of enterprise, and life science technologies.
First Round Capital was founded in 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Josh Kopelman. Notable investment include Uber and Warby Parker. First Round Capital prefers to invest in the technology sector.
Founders Fund was founded 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, Sean Parker (joined in 2006) and Luke Nosek. They are based in San Francisco, California. They invest in all stages and many different sectors including AI, energy, health, and consumer internet. They are among Facebook's early investors. Among their portfolio companies are Airbnb, Spotify, and Wish.
Kleiner Perkins (originally Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) was founded in 1972 in Menlo Park, California by Brook Byers, Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins and Frank J. Caufield. In the firm, they focus on investing in technology and life science-related companies. They have made investments for example in Twitter, Amazon.com, Google, JD.com and Spotify.
Howard Anderson, Rick Frisbie, and Bob Barrett founded Battery Ventures in 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on technology-related companies. Some of their previous investments include HotelTonight and Glassdoor.
In 2004 with headquarter in Palo Alto, California Uncork Capital was founded by Jeff Clavier. The firm has made investments in Fitbit, Eventbrite and many other companies.
Mayfield Fund was founded in 1969, and is based in Menlo Park, California. Some notable investments include ServiceMax and Crunchbase.
Bain Capital Ventures is the venture arm of Bain Capital. They are based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investments in software-related companies. Notable deals include Jet.com, LinkedIn, Dynatrace, Redis Labs, and Sysdig.
Ribbit Capital was founded in 2012 by Meyer Malka. The company is based in Palo Alto, California. So far the firm has made investments that include Funding Circle and more.
Kirsten Green founded Forerunner Ventures in 2009, and the firm made investments that include Birchbox, Bonobos, and Warby Parker. The company focuses on seed, early and late stage investment.
In 2009 David Frankel founded Founder Collective with the purpose of investing in IT companies, SaaS, software, hardware etc. So far the firm has made investments in companies such as HotelTonight, and Venmo.
GGV Capital is based in Menlo Park, California and exists since 2000. They focus on many different staged companies from seed to growth category. Their investments include Alibaba Group, Pandora, Slack.
Andreessen Horowitz was founded in 2009 and is based in Menlo Park, California. In 2011 Andreessen Horowitz was ranked as the best VC firm by Investor Rank, and ranked as the most influential investor by CNET in 2011. The firm invests in industries such as gaming, mobile, and e-commerce. Among their portfolio companies are Airbnb, BuzzFeed and Facebook.
Chase Coleman founded Tiger Global Management in 2001 with headquarters in New York City. The firm had made investments in Facebook and Eventbrite.
Vinod Khosla founded Khosla Ventures in 2004 in Menlo Park, California. They are focused on companies in the early stage related to healthcare, biotechnology, cleantech, computing etc. In total, they have had 87 exits including Guardant Health and Okta.
Gaurav Garg and Peter Wagner founded Wing Venture Capital in 2013 with the purpose of investing in technology companies. They have made investment in FireEye and Clear Labs to name a couple.
Harrison Metal was founded in 2008 with the purpose of investing in technology-related companies at an early stage. The founder is Michael Dearing and the firm is based in San Francisco, California. The firm has made many notable investments such as Birchbox and Signal Sciences.
In 2009 Brad Gillespie and Roger Ehrenberg established IA Ventures, investing in fintech companies. Flatiron Health and Simple are among their investments.
Madrona Venture Group was founded by Paul Goodrich and Tom Alberg in 1995 with the purpose of investing in companies at their seed, early and late stage. It is based in Seattle. They have invested in Amazon.com but among their notable investments we can also find Redfin and Smartsheet.
Insight Venture Partners was founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. The company is based in New York, NY. Representative investments include Tumblr and the Alibaba Group.
Tananbaum and is based in San Francisco, California. Among their notable investment are 10x Genomics.
Redpoint Ventures was founded in 1999 in Menlo Park, California. Geoff Yang, Brad Jones, Timothy Haley, John Walecka, Jeff Brody and Tom Dyal founded the firm. Among their investments, you can find Netflix, JustEat, and Answers.com.
Norwest Venture Partners was established in 1961 and is based in Palo Alto, California. Throughout these years they made many investments and have notable exits such as Uber and Lending Club.
John Burke, Jon Callaghan, Phil Black, Toni Schneider, and Tony Conrad founded True Ventures in 2006. The firm is based in Silicon Valley, California. They have invested in Fitbit, Duo Security, Ring and many more.
OrbiMed Advisors is based in New York, and was founded in 1989 with the purpose of investing in companies related to healthcare. They have invested in Alector, Harpoon Therapeutics, Avedro and many more.
ACM was established in 1994 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. They mainly focus on the applied technology sector. A notable investment includes Dell.
B Capital Group was founded in 2015 by Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly. They have made investments in AiMotive, CapitalMatch, and Bird.