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Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage capital to high-growth startups.

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

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.

Called First Round for a reason. Your first money in is one thing. But so are your first hires, your first product and your first customers. They've helped Notion, Roblox, Uber, Square, and 300 others tackle these firsts and more. First round is building the world’s best product for founders who are just getting started.

Inovia Capital is a full-stack venture firm that invests in tech founders.

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.

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.

Founded in 2015, Next Frontier partners with mission-driven entrepreneurs to build Rocky Mountain technology companies of impact, utility, and value

The Firm is backed by a well-diversified pool of investors, endowments, foundations, and executives from the world’s top technology and financial firms, who join us in recognizing the region’s extraordinary growth in technology deal flow. They are currently investing out of their fourth fund.

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.

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.

Co-founder and CEO of Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) Co-founder of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company.