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Invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms.

Led by Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Exec Chairman. Next Play coaches and invests in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations.

Social Capital is a venture capital investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs at all stages

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

VC arm of the German tech incubator Rocket Internet. Their platform offers their founders all the support they need to scale.

Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.

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

Invests in companies central to the technology industry and those on the edges of science, society, and culture.

IVP grows breakout companies into enduring market leaders.

They are engaged VC partners, but their guidance is focused on when and where it counts. It’s about expertise in moments that matter, answering your call as a counselor and confidant. It’s about bolstering the functions that make or break a business to ensure we make yours a success. It’s about being your compass on the winding path to market leadership. And about celebrating the milestones along the way.

While IVP's investment track record is four decades strong, their focus is on the horizon. From emerging to enduring market leadership, they look out so you can look ahead. Undaunted.

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.

Focuses on investing in disruptive and technology-focused start-ups. Founded in 1999.

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

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.

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.

Technology and life sciences investment firm that builds and invests in the world’s most ambitious companies. 8VC partners with elite founders to build transformational technologies that create long-term economic and societal value.

Led by investors including Chris Sacca, Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/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.

Dr. Ling Wong is Founder and General Partner of Highbury Group and Sea Lane Ventures. Prior to Highbury, she served at the Gates Foundation where she helped to establish a $1.5B global investment portfolio. Dr. Wong has partnered with over fifteen $1B+ companies, including: Devoted Health, Orca Bio, Collective Health, Color, Apeel, Shape, Stripe, Offer Up, Rappi, Branch Metrics, Notion, Modern Animal, Wheel and Satellite Bio. Notable exits include: Anacor Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer for $5.2B), Genocea Biosciences (NASDAQ: GNCA), Visterra (acquired for $430M), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), and recently Singular Genomics (NASDAQ: OMIC).

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.

Executive Chairman @LinkedIn, founding partner @NextPlayVC, founding LP at Concrete Rose Capital, founder of The Compassion Project.

Marc is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies. He co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018. Marc holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Miles' investments include Segment (acquired by Twilio for $3.2B), Benchling, and Airtable — each of which he invested before they had 30 employees. Prior to Benchmark, Miles was a GP at Thrive Capital.

Prior to joining a16z, David spent seven years at General Atlantic leading and partnering on numerous consumer internet and enterprise software growth investments, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Opendoor, Slack, and Uber. Previously, he was an investment associate at FFL Partners and an investment banking analyst for William Blair & Company. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently sits on the Advisory Council of the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame.

Dave Munichiello leads the firm’s digital investing team, spanning its consumer, enterprise, and frontier practice areas. Dave is himself deeply curious about data platforms, data science, developer tools, infrastructure, and enterprise software. His investments include Bugsnag (sold to SmartBear), Cockroach, CoreOS (sold to RedHat), DeterminedAI (sold to HPE), GitLab (IPO Nasdaq: GTLB), Jet.com (sold to Walmart), Lattice.io (sold to Apple), Modular, Pixie (sold to NewRelic), Plaid, RedPanda, SambaNova, Segment (sold to Twilio), Slack (IPO, then sold to Salesforce), Snorkel, Upbound, and Wonder.

Deeply involved in the startup space since 2005, first as a web developer and then as a journalist, M.G. brings a reporter’s sensibility to his roles as an investor and startup advisor. M.G. credits his journalism background with a key quality he looks for today in founders: the ability to communicate well. “It’s an overlooked skill because a good idea doesn’t always translate into a viable product with users and customers. Storytelling – what you’re doing and why it matters – is incredibly important, whether convincing users to download your app, rallying your team behind a launch, or raising your next round of funding.” Before joining GV, M.G. was a founding partner at CrunchFund, an early-stage investment fund. Before that, he reported on the startup world for TechCrunch and VentureBeat. He still writes regularly for his Medium publication, 500ish.

An early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Intercom, Optimizely, Cameo, KeepTruckin, CultureAmp, Loom, UiPath and Nova Credit.

He joined Kleiner Perkins in 2017 after splitting away from Social Capital, a firm he founded alongside Chamath Palihapitiya and Ted Maidenberg. Hamid sits on the board of Figma, Rippling and Netskope, all of which raised new funding rounds at multi-billion-dollar valuations in 2021. He was also an early investor in Slack, which went public in 2019 before being sold to Salesforce for $27.7 billion in 2021.

Kevin Colleran is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Slow Ventures.

Long-time investor and a co-founder of Tribe Capital

His portfolio includes some of the most influential category creators of the last several years, including Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB), Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Square (NYSE: SQ), Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN), and HashiCorp (NASDAQ: HCP). He has helped 10 of his portfolio companies navigate the IPO process and portfolio companies AlienVault (acquired by AT&T) and Vdoo (acquired by JFROG) complete M&As. Glenn’s current portfolio also includes emerging growth and early-stage companies such as BitSight Technologies, Coder, Conviva, Crosschq, Drata, HashiCorp, Kong, Lucidum, Monte Carlo Data, NS1, Nozomi Networks, Orca Security, Pecan, StarTree, Streamlit, Torq, Unravel Data, Synack, Tray.io, Vercel, Yonder (fka New Knowledge), and Zebrium.

His portfolio includes 18 unicorns, many of them invested at an early stage, now valued at more than $1 billion. The public portfolio includes Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Peloton, Poshmark, Slack, Wish and Xiaomi, and the private unicorn portfolio includes ByteDance, Bowery Farming, Divvy Homes, Frubana, Function of Beauty, Ibotta, Loggi, OfferUp, Rupeek, StockX, Udaan, Vedantu, and Xiaohongshu.