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TechOperators is a venture capital firm that invests in growth stage software companies. It also provides constructive, strategic, operating, and networking support to its portfolio companies. The firm is specifically focused on opportunities to innovate and transform solutions for cyber security, enterprise productivity, cloud computing, and ITinfrastructure.

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.

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

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

K9 Ventures believe that extraordinary things are possible when great teams come together around technology. They prefer to be the first institutional / professional capital for the companies they invest in. They also prefer to lead investment rounds and take board seats. To provide sufficient attention to each portfolio company, K9 only invests in 4-6 companies per year.

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.

Altimeter is a leading technology-focused investment firm built by founders for founders. Their mission is to help visionary entrepreneurs build iconic companies, disrupt markets and improve lives through all stages of growth. Altimeter manages a variety of venture and public funds and serves as an expert long-term partner to companies as they enter the public markets.

With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.

For the most enterprising founders.

Founded in 2008, ff VC is a New York-based Seed Stage Fund investing around $350K - $750K for 10% ownership in companies building in sectors they believe in.

At Ten Eleven, we support cybersecurity entrepreneurs with the capital, connections and expertise needed to bring game-changing technologies to market.

Techstars is a global accelerator which invested in more than 3,300 early-stage startups. As one of the largest pre-seed investors in the world, their portfolio is as diversified as their 7,300 founders are unique - from HealthTech and FinTech, to Web3 and CleanTech; from Miami and Silicon Valley to Lagos and London.

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.

Jeff is co-founder and partner at Craft. He has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for two decades. He dropped out of school and co-founded StubHub in March 2000. By 2007, StubHub had over 400 employees, more than $600 million of gross merchandise volume and partnerships with many professional and college sports teams. Jeff served as CEO of StubHub until it was acquired by eBay for $310 million in 2007. Jeff also created Spreecast, a social video platform, that ceased operations in 2016. Jeff began his career working for the Blackstone Group in New York and Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco.

To date, nineteen of Byron’s investments are valued above $1 billion, including ten IPOs and counting. Byron first raised a Series A with Bessemer Venture Partners back in 2000, as CEO and founder of Trigo Technologies. His company grew to be one of the first global SaaS companies, reaching profitability and was successfully sold to IBM. Byron foresaw that cloud computing would not only change the way people built new technologies but also how The Cloud would systematically run the world. In 2005, Byron returned to Bessemer, this time to lead the fund’s global cloud practice. He graduated with honors from The University of California, Berkeley.

Co-founder of Carta, as well as 6 other startups. Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures, he invests in companies at a Pre-Seed stage with teams of technical founders who are creating new technologies or opening new markets with a direct revenue model. K9 has invested at the seed/pre-seed stage in companies such as Lyft, Twilio, Auth0, Carta, LucidChart, Everlaw, Osmo, and more.

Matt Garratt currently serves as the Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, the strategic investment arm for Salesforce with over 275 portfolio companies across 17 countries. While at Salesforce, Matt has completed over 50 Investments and Acquisitions in leading enterprise SaaS companies includingcompanies such as DocuSign, Mulesoft and Twilio.