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Designer Fund is an early stage investor in tech startups that are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto, and Omada Health.

Global multistage technology-focused venture capital fund based out of New York that helps ambitious founders build massive, enduring businesses. They support entrepreneurs by providing them with long-term-focused capital from idea to IPO. HOF also helps them structure transformational partnerships with enterprises in its LP network.

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.

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

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.

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

Founded by GPs Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin, FJ labs focus on marketplaces and network effect businesses. They have amassed the world’s largest portfolio of marketplace startups and over 30 of their investments have become unicorns.

Elad Gil is an active angel investor and was the co-founder of Color Genomics and former vice president of Twitter.

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

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

SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.

Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk

Founder (3 exits) turned VC. Weirdly love minivans. Empathetic to how lonely and hard founder life is. Grateful to have this job and work with you.

Investor in AI-first tech + life science companies and co-author of the State of AI Report.

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).

Co-Founder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Was CEO of Color from 2013 to fall 2016. Investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Anchorage, Coinbase, dbt Labs, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Opendoor, OpenSea, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Retool, Samsara, Square, Stripe, TripActions. Previously, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company was co-founder and CEO of. MixerLabs ran GeoAPI, one of the early developer-centric platform infrastructure products.

Chris has been at Andreessen Horowitz since 2012. He founded and is leading a16z Crypto, which invests in web3 technologies through three dedicated funds with more than $3 billion under management. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011. Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.

Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund. First outside investor in Facebook.

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

Steve invests at the intersection of design, technology, and business: at the sweet spot where a product meets a real user need, is built atop a unique insight or technological breakthrough, and has the potential to be a massive business. He is drawn to founders with two predilections: First, having spent the initial five years of his career designing products at IDEO, Steve gravitates towards product-first founders, who understand how to build technology that delights and improves the lives of its users. Second, he is drawn to founders who want to solve consequential problems. Steve’s investments include Anomalo, Bolt Threads, Brave, Cerebras Systems, Control4 [CTRL], Dust Labs, ForUsAll, Framer, KeeperTax, Loft Orbital, Mantle, Mode, Northstar, OAK Networks, Outerbounds, Pareto Labs, Pocket (acquired by Mozilla), Portals, PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook), Simple Habit, Stripe, Solana [SOL], Sunrun [RUN], Teleport, and Threads.

Specializes in guiding early-stage startups into successful businesses: He joined PayPal when monthly burn-rate was $6 million; he joined LinkedIn, Slide and Square when they had no revenue. Served on the Board of Directors of Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM) from 2003 until 2015 and served on the Yelp Board from 2005-2014 (NYSE: Yelp). I served on the Board of Reddit from 2012-2019. I am a co-founder of OpenDoor and serve as our Executive Chairman. Prior angel investments include: YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, Eventbrite, Lyft, Quora, Yammer, Skybox, Counsyl, Weebly, Wish, Eventbrite.

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.

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.

Prior to founding SignalFire, Chris was a Venture Partner with General Catalyst Partners (2010–13), where he played a significant role in establishing the California office. He led GC’s successful seed investment program including seed investments in Alation, ClassDojo, Coinbase, Discord, Fivetran, Game Closure/PlayCo, Getaround, Stripe, Venmo, and Zapier. Chris was previously a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners (2005–09) where he led investments in digital media and mobile companies. Prior to Bessemer, Chris was a Consultant with Bain & Company where he advised on technology buyouts. Chris began his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company.