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Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.

Ground Up Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups in the United States and Israel.

Bay Area-based early-stage lead investor in consumer and enterprise-focused founders across North America currently investing out of our ninth early-stage fund ($350M).

Urban Innovation Fund is investing in the future of cities. provides seed capital and regulatory support to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow's most valued companies.

We invest in founders building software making work, life, and wealth-building easier and more accessible.

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk

Seed-stage venture capital fund that back visionary and dedicated founders who want to solve the most important problems and vastly improve people’s lives around the world. Kindred tries to gain an edge over competitors is by moving as close to the concept stage as possible — even helping to form startups.

An operator fortunate enough to help teams scale three companies from the formidable founding stages to profitable businesses and to successful exits. An applied mathematician and statistician by training.

I strongly believe in immigrant founders: I saw firsthand the sheer tenacity of my parents who built a business while raising two daughters in a country where everything was foreign to them. I viscerally appreciate the challenges and the hopes of those chasing the American Dream—for many immigrants, there is more at stake than just their company. I nearly drowned as a child. I sobbed all day, and the day after that, I asked to enroll in swimming lessons. There are moments where every founder feels like they’re drowning—I want to be their first call when that happens. I started doing research in immunology when I was in middle school. I did translational oncology at Genentech, and then studied a new protein target to slow Alzheimer’s in college. At Stanford, I was able to marry my interests in biology with statistics and computer science, and I am excited to meet entrepreneurs innovating at that intersection.

Launched San Francisco-based Forerunner Ventures in 2010, where she serves as Founder and Managing Partner. As a founder, Kirsten has led efforts to raise over $1B+ from leading institutional investors and invest in more than 100 companies.

Before BCV, Christina was a product leader at Affirm and an active angel investor.

focuses on investments in marketplaces, enterprise applications, commerce, and digital health. 2016, Gabby left Crosslink to pursue her MBA at Harvard Business School. While at Harvard, Gabby spent time at Pinterest working on the sales operations and strategy team. was a consultant at Ernst & Young in New York, where she worked in the valuation analysis and pricing group.

Mark's investments focus on fintech, real estate, and enterprise SaaS. His interests lie chiefly with businesses that increase back office and working capital efficiency, ease data and customer compliance for global scale, and enable earned wage access. Mark helped build and lead business strategy and finance at Stripe, driving key initiatives for sales operations, global growth, and fundraising.

Managing partner of Nyca Partners, a fintech VC in New York and San Francisco founded in 2014, which has invested in approximately 90 companies and is currently investing from its fourth fund.