Lyft

Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.

Believes that creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not.

SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.

Global VC firm focusing on inception and early-stage investing in tech.

Backing founders building tomorrow’s most iconic companies. Valia is currently investing out of their $50M second early-stage fund.

Provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.

K9 Ventures believe that extraordinary things are possible when great teams come together around technology. They prefer to be the first institutional / professional capital for the companies they invest in. They also prefer to lead investment rounds and take board seats. To provide sufficient attention to each portfolio company, K9 only invests in 4-6 companies per year.

Comcast Ventures partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.

Graphene Ventures is a multi-stage investor in high-growth tech companies.

Focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. Founded by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko.

Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, Ann was also named the “Most Powerful Woman in Startups” by Forbes. Ann is well-known in Silicon Valley as a pioneer investor in highly technical companies because of her background as a PhD in math modeling of infosec at Stanford. Her deep interest in technology began as a child – her father was a NASA rocket scientist – and her expertise developed as an undergraduate at Yale, where she participated in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France. Ann has also made significant investments in consumer (commerce, curation), marketplaces, and software for SMBs and solopreneurs. Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft (where she is still a board member), Xamarin, Monthly, Popshop, Emotive, and Refinery29.

One of Mark Zuckerberg’s first outside hires for Facebook in 2005. Also founded the customer-data platform Radius and stayed on as its CEO for about seven years.

Founder since 2005 and investor since 2007.

Has backed 19 unicorns ex-Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses

Previously co-founded and helped scale Jobr to millions of users and profitability before being acquired by Monster and expanding globally. Prior to founding Jobr, TJ was an investor at Coatue Management. TJ joined to start Coatue’s private investing practice and helped to establish Coatue as a leading venture investor leading investments in Anaplan, HotelTonight, Snap, Lyft and Wish among others. Prior to Coatue, TJ spent several years at Accel partners. He started his career at Summit Partners, a $12B venture capital and private equity firm.

Co-founder of Carta, as well as 6 other startups. Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures, he invests in companies at a Pre-Seed stage with teams of technical founders who are creating new technologies or opening new markets with a direct revenue model. K9 has invested at the seed/pre-seed stage in companies such as Lyft, Twilio, Auth0, Carta, LucidChart, Everlaw, Osmo, and more.

David has been a successful founder and investor for over two decades, building and investing in some of the most iconic companies in tech. David has invested in over 20 unicorns, including Affirm, AirBnB, Bird, ClickUp, Eventbrite, Facebook, Houzz, Lyft, OpenDoor, Palantir, Postmates, Reddit, Slack, SpaceX, Twitter, Uber, and Wish. David first got involved in the technology industry in 1999 when he joined early-stage startup Confinity, later renamed PayPal. Serving as the company’s first product leader and then as COO, David built and ran many of the company’s key teams, including product management and design, sales and marketing, business development, international, customer service, fraud operations, and HR. David is well known in Silicon Valley for his product acumen. AngelList’s Naval Ravikant has called David “the world’s best product strategist.” David likes to begin pitch meetings by seeing a product demo.