Cruise
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles. Since our 2013 founding in San Francisco, we have hired over 1,600 talented individuals and opened additional offices in greater Seattle, Pasadena, Phoenix and Munich. We have raised $10B from General Motors, Honda, Microsoft, SoftBank, T. Rowe Price, Walmart and others. Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving vehicles, join us. getcruise.com/careers.
Founding Year
2013
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San Francisco
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United States
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$13,666.80M
Funds that Investested
Soma Capital
Soma Capital seeks to back brilliant, scrappy founders that are driven to push humanity forward.
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Zillionize
Zillionize is a low friction startup investor with a portfolio of over 100 fast growing startups.
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SVA
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Founder Collective
Led by investors including Micah Rosenbloom, David Frankel & Eric Paley, Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
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Homebrew
Homebrew is a seed-stage fund that provides operational expertise for entrepreneurs building the bottom-up economy. They invest in mission-driven founders who embrace big – big ideas, big impact, big risk.
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Initialized Capital
Early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
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Spark Capital
Invests in products we love, people, crazy, dreams, design, details, brains, reality, unreality, reinvention, new markets, weird stuff, guts, independence, hustle, distinction, art, humanness, idealists, oddities, optimism, communities, creation, surprises, technologists with the heart of an artist, each other.
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Quotidian
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Flight Ventures
Flight Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in SaaS and financial services.
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AME Cloud Ventures
Founded by Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.
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Signia Venture Partners
Early-stage fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs realize their vision and build impactful, high-growth ventures.
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Tuesday Capital
Tuesday Capital is a VC firm that invests in companies and maintains a variety of relationships with other VC firms.
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Y Combinator
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.
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Investors that Investested
Cindy Bi
General Partner, CapitalX
Enterprise focused early-stage VC with $100k-$500k checks via CapitalX.vc. Also invest in later stage via SPVs for $250k $2m or more. Since 2011, I’ve invested in over 100 startups with High Hit Rate including 12 x Unicorns. In addition, I've also invested in more than 10 VC funds. I know what it takes to build a high-impact company at different stages, as a long-time executive and operator, a former founder, and consultant at Accenture. Founders also love working with me for being an empathetic executive coach, cheerleader for the early team, and ambassador for their brand and community.
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Nabeel Hyatt
General Partner, Spark Capital
General partner at Spark who partners with ambitious founders out to build amazing things. Worked at scrappy small scale, in hyper-growth mode, and at large public company scale several times over the last couple decades as a CEO, COO, and head of product.
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Aydin Senkut
Founder and Managing Partner, Felicis Ventures
His recent focus areas include infrastructure, security, and future of health. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor. Early backer of a number of iconic companies including Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Credit Karma (Acquired by Intuit), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Guideline, Notion, Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), and Soundhound (NASDAQ:SOUN). Prior to starting Felicis, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals.
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Zach Coelius
Managing Partner, Coelius Capital
We generally invest in B2B or B2B2C companies. We like weird ideas. Average checks are $200k-1m
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Garry Tan
Founder (Initialized Capital); Partner (Y Combinator), Y Combinator
A designer, engineer, and investor in early stage startups. Co-founder and managing partner of Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart. Previously a partner at Y Combinator. Invested in and directly worked with over 600 companies in 5 years from the earliest possible stage.
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Sam Altman
Angel Investor, OpenAI Startup Fund
For years Sam Altman has been one of the most prominent seed investors. He’s perhaps best known for his five years as the president of the famous startup accelerator Y Combinator, a role he left in 2019. Altman’s keen eye for investments helped him jump 80 spots up to No. 13 on this year’s Seed 100 list. One example: After first backing the fusion-energy startup Helion Energy in 2015, he invested $375 million in the startup's $500 million Series E round in November, which boosted its valuation to $3 billion. When not investing, he leads OpenAI, an organization that works with open-source artificial intelligence.
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Michael Seibel
Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner, Y Combinator
Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Daniel Gross
, Pioneer
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Lee Linden
Managing Partner, Quiet Capital
Previously lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card. Lee also founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform which allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burden of physical mailing addresses. Karmawas acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale. Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms.
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Gaurav Jain
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Afore Capital
Gautam is an experienced early-stage investor having made 26 seed-stage investments through Founder Collective. He was one of the first Product Managers for Android (led the Nexus product line); joined the platform when they had less than 1M total users (today >2.5B). He was recognized with the Founders Award, highest employee achievement award at Google, for his contributions to Android. Gautam also co-founded Polar in 2007, leading native ads platform.
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Eric Paley
Founding Partner, Founder Collective
Eric Paley, a longtime founder-focused VC, climbed two spots on this year’s Seed 100 list thanks to a string of recent successful exits at his firm, Founder Collective. These include Blissfully (acquired by Vendr), Codecademy (acquired by Skillsoft), Par80 (acquired by Cloudmed), and Finxera (acquired by Priority Payment Systems). Paley, who previously founded a dental startup that sold to 3M, said he didn’t believe in “themes.” Instead, he said, he looks for founders who are “all over it.” He added, “When you ask them a question, they’ve clearly thought about that challenge and can preempt your following three questions by linking their answer to other areas of their business.”
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Avichal Garg
Managing Partner, Electric Capital
Avichal Garg’s tour through tech began at Google, and he landed at Facebook in 2012 after the social-media giant bought Spool, his mobile bookmarking startup. At Facebook, he led product management for a 400-engineer team. His investing career involved a brief stint at Y Combinator, after which he struck out on his own to build Electric Capital, a firm that invests across fintech and crypto. He’s now among the beneficiaries of a wave of capital pouring into Web3 — a catchall term for crypto, blockchain, and metaverse companies — with two newly closed funds worth $1 billion.
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