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Early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.

Fund based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into transformative international businesses. Index covers every investment stage, from earliest seed through to explosive growth.

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.

Freestyle has been investing for over 12 years and was one of the first firms started by Founders. Their GPs, Dave & Jenny each have over 25 years in tech, both successfully exiting multiple times. Freestyle boasts a portfolio of 130+ companies.

Invests in early-stage investments in technology companies with conviction since 1970.

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.

Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare

Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT.

Focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.

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

Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and early stage venture investments

Co-founder and Managing Director of Climactic VC, and a Co-Founder of Freestyle.

Saar Gur is a General Partner at CRV. He was named one of the top 8 up and coming Venture Capitalists by Forbes and a top 10 VC under the age of thirty-six by Venture Capital Journal, Saar loves consumer products and services and is passionate about helping his companies succeed. Saar has been involved in 11 acquisitions in the past few years byfirms such as Google, Facebook, Disney, Warner Bros., and Intuit. Prior to CRV, Saar was a Co Founder of BrightRoll, a leading video ad network. He holds a Stanford MBA and a Biochemistry degree from University of Wisconsin.

Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. He has personally led investments in companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. One of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers.

5-time founder. Expert on network effects.

Danny joined Index in 2002 and established the firm's London office. He later opened the San Francisco office with Mike Volpi. His current investments include 1stdibs, Discord, Farfetch, Figma, Glossier, GOAT, Good Eggs, Grailed, Humu, Patreon and Scoop.

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.

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.

A tech founder, builder, and investor. He’s written a national bestselling book, Without Their Permission, and co-founded initialized capital and Reddit. In 2020, Alexis founded Seven Seven Six, a new software-enabled venture firm focused on people, culture, and community.

Mike founded Rothenberg Ventures in 2012 to build communities and solve problems while a student at Harvard Business School. Mike couch­surfed across the country to raise $5m from 50 founders & CEOs for the first fund. As a student, Mike ran the fund and led the investments including Robinhood, SpaceX, Matterport, Revel Systems, and Patreon.Today, Rothenberg Ventures manages $50m with more than 100 startup holdings, three unicorns, and at least a dozen exits. As of 2017, Rothenberg Ventures is the top ­ranked Venture Capital firm in Frontier Technology and Virtual Reality (according to Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook).