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For over  25 years, Insight Partners has helped over 600 companies turn their vision into reality. They invest and support founders from seed until the later stages.

Pioneer Fund is a venture capital firm investing in the top Y Combinator startups.

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.

Both invests in companies and runs online fundraising processes on their site.

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

Ethan Choi joined Accel in 2018 and invests in SaaS companies that are redefining collaboration and enterprise automation, as well as fintech and e-commerce infrastructure. Prior to Accel, Ethan invested in and worked with companies including Headspace, Jimdo, Lucid Software, Lynda.com, PicMonkey and Prezi.

Matt Gatto joined Insight in 2010. He focuses on high-growth software and SaaS businesses across infrastructure, healthcare and enterprise applications, and also has experience with leveraged buyouts. Matt has worked with Insight's investments in AirWatch, Cherwell Software, Kinnser Software, Shopify and Zumba Fitness, and works with a number of other infrastructure and software/SaaS portfolio companies. Matt's career experience prior to Insight includes online advertising optimization at Verizon Information Services, debt restructuring and issuance at Deutsche Bank Asia, and electronic communications risk management at Merrill Lynch.  Matt graduated with high honors from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School. Matt’s personal interests include golf and most other sports, the outdoors, trying new foods and craft brews, and travel.

Brett manages the investment team and leads Initialized’s dev tools and crypto deals. Prior to joining Initialized, he cofounded the blog platforms Posthaven and Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and later wrote software for Y Combinator, building its essential internal software systems. He was also a founder of the social news platform Slinkset, which was funded by YC in 2008, and DrawHere, a browser drawing startup acquired by DeviantArt in 2006. He is fond of pinball.