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Previously called 500 Startups, 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Their portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million.

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.

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

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

Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.

Backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.

Early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies. They assembled a team of senior operators and investors with one goal: to help founders build great companies.

Early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies.

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

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

Verissimo Ventures invest in early-stage technology companies.

Focused on Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stage technology companies in North America. The firm is sector agnostic but has a core focus on Fintech, Enterprise SaaS, Digital Healthcare, E-Commerce and Deep Tech investments.

Partners with visionary founders from seed through IPO.

Co-founder and former CEO of New York-based Goody, a gifting app.

Co-Founder, former CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). and online money transfer service, Xoom (IPO 2013, acquired by PayPal 2015 for $1.1B). Experienced Early-stage investor having invested in multiple unicorn companies such as Paypal, OpenSea and AirBnB, among others.

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.

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.

Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

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.