🇺🇸 Startup investors in the United States

Startup investors in the United States

• Bling Capital

  VC · United States

  Early-stage fund with 230+ investments and a portfolio including Lyft, Palantir and Udemy, focused on SaaS, data products, marketplaces and automation.

  Offers: investment

• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  The largest venture firm by AUM at $90B+, closed a record $15B raise in January 2026 alone, accounting for over 18% of all US VC dollars that year.

  Offers: investment

• Sequoia Capital

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  One of the oldest and most selective top-tier funds, evergreen structure, $56B-$90B AUM depending on source, recently transitioned leadership to Alfred Lin and Pat Grady.

  Offers: investment

• Founders Fund

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Peter Thiel’s firm, early investor in SpaceX, Facebook, Palantir, Stripe and OpenAI, known for deliberately long-hold, contrarian bets.

  Offers: investment

• Benchmark

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Famous for staying small and concentrated, just 20-25 companies per fund, among the most selective early-stage specialists in the industry.

  Offers: investment

• General Catalyst

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  A top-5 US firm by 2026 deployment velocity, active across seed through growth stage in AI, enterprise software and defense technology.

  Offers: investment

• Lightspeed Venture Partners

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  A top-5 US firm actively investing at seed and growth stage across AI, enterprise and defense technology.

  Offers: investment

• SV Angel

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Ron Conway’s angel firm, following his run leading Angel Investors LP, an early-stage investor in Google, Facebook and PayPal.

  Offers: investment

• Golden Seeds

  Angel · New York, NY

  One of the largest angel networks in the US funding women-led companies, founded 2004, 9 chapters across 28 states, $200M+ invested in 274+ companies.

  Offers: investment

• Keiretsu Forum

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  One of the largest global angel networks, founded 2000, 53 chapters across three continents including several US cities.

  Offers: investment

• Band of Angels

  Angel · Palo Alto, CA

  One of the oldest seed-stage angel groups in Silicon Valley, members are experienced operators and former executives.

  Offers: investment

• New York Angels

  Angel · New York, NY

  One of the most active angel groups on the East Coast, structured application process with office hours before full diligence.

  Offers: investment

• TCA Venture Group (Tech Coast Angels)

  Angel · Los Angeles, CA

  One of the largest angel networks in Southern California, domain-specific operating guidance for founders whose round needs more than one check.

  Offers: investment

• Tiger Global Management

  VC · New York, NY

  Global internet and software investor, historically among the most active cross-border backers in India, China, Brazil and Southeast Asia.

  Offers: investment

• Insight Partners

  VC · New York, NY

  Global growth investor with $90B AUM and its own operating platform, Onsite, plus offices in London and Tel Aviv for direct non-US sourcing.

  Offers: investment

• DST Global

  VC · New York, NY

  Yuri Milner’s growth fund, an early global backer of Facebook, Alibaba, Xiaomi, JD.com and Spotify, one of the most internationally diversified late-stage portfolios of its era.

  Offers: investment

• Coatue Management

  VC · New York, NY

  Global tech crossover investor active across US, European and Asian growth-stage rounds.

  Offers: investment

• General Atlantic

  VC · New York, NY

  Global growth equity firm with offices in over 10 countries including Singapore, Mumbai, São Paulo and Beijing.

  Offers: investment

• Bessemer Venture Partners

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  One of the oldest US venture firms, backer of Wix (Israel), Shopify (Canada) and Pinduoduo (China) at early stage.

  Offers: investment

• New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  One of the largest US venture firms by capital, with dedicated offices in India and China for direct local sourcing.

  Offers: investment

• Battery Ventures

  VC · Boston, MA

  US venture and growth-equity firm with a dedicated Israel office for direct regional sourcing.

  Offers: investment

• Norwest Venture Partners

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  US venture and growth firm with a dedicated India office and long-running local investment team.

  Offers: investment

• Accel

  VC · Palo Alto, CA

  Cross-continental early-stage firm with disclosed portfolio companies in the US, Europe and India predating most competitors’ entry into those markets.

  Offers: investment

• Qualcomm Ventures

  VC · San Diego, CA

  Qualcomm’s global corporate venture arm, historically invested in startups across 20+ countries.

  Offers: investment

• Intel Capital

  VC · Santa Clara, CA

  Intel’s corporate venture arm, one of the most internationally active corporate VCs in history, with disclosed investments across 60+ countries since inception.

  Offers: investment

• Salesforce Ventures

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Salesforce’s global corporate venture fund, investing in enterprise SaaS startups well beyond the US as part of its own ecosystem strategy.

  Offers: investment

• M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund)

  VC · Redmond, WA

  Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, backing enterprise and AI startups globally as part of its own platform strategy.

  Offers: investment

• SoftBank Vision Fund

  VC · San Carlos, CA

  The largest technology-focused fund in the world at over $100B AUM, explicitly invests across every major startup region globally.

  Offers: investment

• QED Investors

  VC · Alexandria, VA

  Fintech-focused VC with explicitly stated investment activity across the US, Latin America, Europe and the UK.

  Offers: investment

• Ribbit Capital

  VC · Palo Alto, CA

  Fintech specialist VC with disclosed early positions in Nubank (Brazil), Revolut (UK) and Robinhood (US), a genuinely cross-border fintech thesis.

  Offers: investment

• Global Founders Capital

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Explicitly global-mandate fund linked to the Rocket Internet network, publicly stating investment activity across 40+ countries.

  Offers: investment

• SOSV

  VC · Princeton, NJ

  Runs HAX (hardware) and IndieBio (biotech) as global accelerator-fund hybrids, sourcing deep-tech founders on every continent.

  Offers: investment, mentoring

• Alpha Wave Global

  VC · New York, NY

  Global growth investor (formerly Falcon Edge Capital) active across the US, India and Southeast Asia at scale.

  Offers: investment

• Endeavor Catalyst

  VC · New York, NY

  Co-investment vehicle that invests exclusively alongside Endeavor’s own global entrepreneur network, active across 40+ countries.

  Offers: investment

• Flourish Ventures

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Fintech-for-financial-health investor with an explicitly stated mandate across the US, Africa, India, Latin America and Europe.

  Offers: investment

• Anthemis Group

  VC · New York, NY

  Fintech-focused investor with a dual US/UK base and disclosed cross-Atlantic portfolio activity.

  Offers: investment

• Unshackled Ventures

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  The only VC fund investing exclusively in immigrant founders, $35M Fund III, sponsors visas directly (H-1B, O-1, EB-1) and has filed 100+ visa petitions with a 100% success rate. Founders have raised $730M+ in follow-on funding from a16z, YC, First Round and General Catalyst.

  Offers: investment, info

• One Way Ventures

  VC · Boston, MA

  Backs startups with at least one immigrant founder exclusively, $500K-$1M seed checks, 26+ tracked investments, cites Harvard/MIT research that immigrants found 55% of America’s billion-dollar startups despite being 13% of the population.

  Offers: investment

• Khosla Ventures

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, publicly known for a high risk-tolerance, moonshot-focused thesis across AI, climate and deep tech.

  Offers: investment

• Greylock Partners

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Founded 1965, one of the oldest venture firms in the country, early backer of LinkedIn, Facebook and Airbnb at the seed stage.

  Offers: investment

• Union Square Ventures

  VC · New York, NY

  Thesis-driven early-stage investor publicly known for early positions in Twitter, Etsy and Coinbase.

  Offers: investment

• Spark Capital

  VC · Boston, MA

  Early-stage and growth investor publicly known for backing Twitter, Slack and Discord.

  Offers: investment

• Redpoint Ventures

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Early-stage and growth investor publicly known for early positions in Netflix and Snowflake.

  Offers: investment

• Menlo Ventures

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Runs the Anthology Fund in direct partnership with Anthropic, giving portfolio companies structured access to Claude models and credits.

  Offers: investment

• Lux Capital

  VC · New York, NY

  Deep-tech and frontier-tech focused investor, publicly known for its early position in Anduril.

  Offers: investment

• CRV

  VC · Palo Alto, CA

  Founded in 1970, one of the oldest continuously operating venture firms in the US, early investor in Twitter and Airtable.

  Offers: investment

• Bain Capital Ventures

  VC · Boston, MA

  The venture arm of Bain Capital, publicly focused on enterprise, fintech and AI-native software.

  Offers: investment

• Foundry Group

  VC · Boulder, CO

  Publicly notable for operating a top-tier fund outside Silicon Valley, early backer of Fitbit.

  Offers: investment

• IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Growth-stage investor publicly known for pre-IPO positions in Snap, Slack and Twitter.

  Offers: investment

• ARCH Venture Partners

  VC · Chicago, IL

  Biotech-focused investor publicly known for its early position in Illumina, based in Chicago rather than the coasts.

  Offers: investment

• Greycroft

  VC · New York, NY

  Consumer-tech focused investor publicly known as an early Venmo investor.

  Offers: investment

• Lerer Hippeau

  VC · New York, NY

  Seed-stage investor publicly known for backing Warby Parker, Casper and Allbirds.

  Offers: investment

• Venrock

  VC · Palo Alto, CA

  Spun out of the Rockefeller family office, one of the oldest venture firms in the US with a historical link to early Apple and Intel funding rounds.

  Offers: investment

• Draper Associates

  VC · San Mateo, CA

  Founded by Tim Draper, publicly known for early positions in Tesla and Skype through the wider Draper fund network.

  Offers: investment

• Madrona Venture Group

  VC · Seattle, WA

  The leading Pacific Northwest venture firm, publicly known as one of the earliest institutional investors in Amazon.

  Offers: investment

• DCM Ventures

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Cross-border US/Asia investor publicly known for backing Musical.ly, which later merged into TikTok.

  Offers: investment

• Flagship Pioneering

  VC · Cambridge, MA

  Biotech-focused venture creation firm that doesn’t just invest in but originates companies from within its own labs, most notably founding Moderna.

  Offers: investment

• GV

  VC · Mountain View, CA

  Alphabet’s independent venture arm, investing across AI, life sciences, enterprise and consumer from seed through growth.

  Offers: investment

• Thrive Capital

  VC · New York, NY

  Josh Kushner’s firm, one of the fastest-growing US funds, closed its largest-ever vehicle Thrive X in 2026 at roughly $37B total AUM.

  Offers: investment

• Felicis

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006 with $4M, now running a $900M tenth fund across AI, infrastructure and consumer.

  Offers: investment

• First Round Capital

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Seed-stage specialist publicly known as an early backer of Uber and Square, and for its free First Round Review founder library.

  Offers: investment

• Highland Capital Partners

  VC · Boston, MA

  Long-running early-stage firm with a Boston and Silicon Valley presence, active across enterprise, consumer and health.

  Offers: investment

• Canaan Partners

  VC · Westport, CT

  Early-stage investor split across technology and healthcare, one of the few top-ranked funds headquartered in Connecticut.

  Offers: investment

• F-Prime Capital

  VC · Cambridge, MA

  The Fidelity-affiliated venture firm, focused on healthcare, biotech and fintech.

  Offers: investment

• Bond

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Growth-stage firm led by Mary Meeker, best known for her long-running annual Internet Trends report.

  Offers: investment

• 8VC

  VC · Austin, TX

  Joe Lonsdale’s firm, investing in enterprise, logistics, defense and healthcare from Austin rather than the Bay Area.

  Offers: investment

• Abstract Ventures

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Early-stage multi-sector fund backing founders across AI, fintech, crypto and consumer.

  Offers: investment

• Altimeter Capital

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Brad Gerstner’s crossover firm, investing privately and publicly in large technology platforms and AI.

  Offers: investment

• Crosslink Capital

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Multi-stage investor active across consumer, enterprise and gaming since the late 1980s.

  Offers: investment

• Breyer Capital

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Jim Breyer’s firm; Breyer is publicly known as an early Facebook board investor while at Accel.

  Offers: investment

• DCVC (Data Collective)

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Deep-tech investor backing computational, climate, bio and industrial companies.

  Offers: investment

• Energy Impact Partners

  VC · New York, NY

  Climate and energy-transition fund backed by a coalition of major utilities and energy companies as LPs.

  Offers: investment

• Cisco Investments

  VC · San Jose, CA

  Cisco’s corporate venture arm, investing in enterprise infrastructure, security and AI.

  Offers: investment

• Initialized Capital

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Co-founded by Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian, an early backer of Coinbase and Instacart.

  Offers: investment

• Goldman Sachs Growth Equity

  VC · New York, NY

  Goldman Sachs’ growth investing platform, backing later-stage technology, fintech and healthcare companies.

  Offers: investment

• Alumni Ventures

  VC · Manchester, NH

  One of the most active US venture investors by deal count, letting accredited individuals build diversified venture portfolios through alumni-network funds.

  Offers: investment

• Matrix Partners

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Long-running early-stage firm with Boston and Bay Area roots, active in enterprise, fintech and consumer.

  Offers: investment

• Dragonfly Capital

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Crypto and Web3-focused fund investing across infrastructure, DeFi and trading platforms.

  Offers: investment

• Goodwater Capital

  VC · Burlingame, CA

  Consumer-technology specialist investing in consumer apps and platforms globally.

  Offers: investment

• Artis Ventures

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Early-stage fund focused on the intersection of biology, healthcare and technology.

  Offers: investment

• Bow Capital

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  Co-founded by entrepreneur Vivek Ranadivé, investing in enterprise software, AI and data companies.

  Offers: investment

• Summit Partners

  VC · Boston, MA

  Growth-equity firm with roughly $42B in capital, typically backing profitable, founder-led companies.

  Offers: investment

• TPG (Growth & Rise Fund)

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  The growth and impact arms of TPG, one of the largest US private-investment firms, including The Rise Fund for impact investing.

  Offers: investment

• D1 Capital Partners

  VC · New York, NY

  Dan Sundheim’s investment firm, active in both public markets and late-stage private technology rounds.

  Offers: investment

• Alkeon Capital

  VC · New York, NY

  Crossover technology investor backing late-stage private companies ahead of IPO.

  Offers: investment

• Precursor Ventures

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Charles Hudson’s pre-seed firm, $250K–$500K first checks, Fund V closed at $66M in 2025, with a public application form.

  Offers: investment

• Hustle Fund

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Pre-seed and seed fund founded in 2017 by Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn, $50K–$750K checks with a sweet spot around $150K.

  Offers: investment

• Afore Capital

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Calls itself the largest dedicated pre-seed investor; fourth fund of $185M, checks up to $2M, plus a Founders in Residence track for 50–75 aspiring founders.

  Offers: investment, mentoring

• Blockchain Capital

  VC · San Francisco, CA

  Crypto-native venture firm investing in blockchain infrastructure, protocols and applications.

  Offers: investment

• Kleiner Perkins

  VC · Menlo Park, CA

  One of the original Silicon Valley venture firms, with a long-running history of backing international expansion for its US portfolio and select foreign-founded companies.

  Offers: investment

• Garry Tan

  Angel · Mountain View, CA

  President and CEO of Y Combinator, co-founder of Initialized Capital, an early Coinbase investor who still angel invests personally alongside running YC.

  Offers: investment, mentoring

• Cyan Banister

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Partner at Founders Fund, formerly of Long Journey Ventures, first angel check ever written was to SpaceX. Early investor in Uber, Affirm, Opendoor and Postmates before any were worth over $1B.

  Offers: investment

• Alexis Ohanian

  Angel · Austin, TX

  Reddit co-founder, built Seven Seven Six (776) from scratch after Initialized Capital, now managing nearly $1B with an investor base publicly stated as 50% women and 15% Black and Indigenous, 18 unicorns in portfolio.

  Offers: investment, mentoring

• Aileen Lee

  Angel · Menlo Park, CA

  Co-founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, coined the term “unicorn” in a 2013 TechCrunch article, also co-founded All Raise to grow women’s representation in venture.

  Offers: investment, mentoring

• Kirsten Green

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Founder of Forerunner Ventures, went from accountant to unicorn investor, backer of Warby Parker and Dollar Shave Club, one of very few women to build a top-tier retail-focused fund.

  Offers: investment

• Julian Weisser

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Founder of Solo Founders, investing $100K into solo founders and co-publishing a Carta-backed report on solo-founder outcomes.

  Offers: investment, mentoring

• Joey Krug

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Partner at Founders Fund, active in crypto and fintech, co-founder of the Augur prediction-market protocol.

  Offers: investment

• Dylan Field

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Co-founder and CEO of Figma and a former Thiel Fellow, active as a personal angel investor.

  Offers: investment

• Joe Gebbia

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Airbnb co-founder turned active angel investor.

  Offers: investment

• Mark Pincus

  Angel · San Francisco, CA

  Zynga founder, long-time Silicon Valley angel investor.

  Offers: investment