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Invests across all stages in companies building technologies modernizing our large old-world, physical industries.
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Believes that iconic companies transcend boundaries: they can be built anywhere, by anyone, and in any corner of the economy, from curing rare diseases at scale to powering global payments for organizations of all sizes. They partner with founders around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious.
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Julian Capital is a seed-stage fund that writes $500K checks and makes decisions quickly. They believe they're among the best growth and design experts. When they invest, they help overhaul your customer acquisition and brand.
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Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV originated as an independent venture capital firm for innovative founders. With Alphabet as their sole limited partner, they focus all our energy on meeting and supporting founders at the earliest stages of company-building.
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Harpoon is a seed focused venture capital firm. Their mission is to ensure American technological dominance for future generations. They invest in audacious founders building mission-critical capabilities across AI, deep tech, software infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
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VC Firm founded by Jai Malik to revitalize the American industry and back titans of hard tech at the early stages.
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TSVC is a US venture capital firm focusing on seed-stage investing over 12 years. Their investing team includes founders who have built companies in Deeptech, Fintech, SaaS and Healthtech.
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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.
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Backs early stage companies with technological and data advantages in industrial, enterprise, and healthcare applications
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Investing in defensible businesses at the early stage.
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Investing in early-stage frontier technology companies.
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Invests in anything progressing humanity towards a Type One Civilization.
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Builds and invests in technologies that help move people and goods cleaner, faster, safer, and at lower cost - on the ground, in the air, on the sea, and in space. They partner with the boldest entrepreneurs and largest companies in the world to help achieve our mission of Transforming the Moving World.
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Fund from the robotics community, by robotics leaders, for robotics innovators. Cybernetix leverages their exceptional network of executives, suppliers, customers, manufacturers, acquirers, and growth investors, and extensive technology and vertical markets expertise to support founders they believe in.
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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.
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Backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost
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OS Fund is founded by Bryan Johnson, founder of Braintree (the creator of Venmo) to support inventors and scientists who aim to benefit humanity by rewriting the operating systems of life The firm believes biology is programmable, and invests in platforms and enabling technologies (i.e. Ginkgo Bioworks).
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Moves fast to back era-defining engineers.
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Seed-stage venture firm started in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Dilutes alongside founders, helping find smart capital for every stage of company growth. The firm has invested in over 100 seed-stage technology companies which now represents an aggregate market capitalization of $22.8B.
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Thesis-driven earliest-stage venture capital firm built by founders, experienced operators, nerds, and dreamers obsessed with the future. Their core thesis is that platform companies will deliver outsized, venture-scale returns. Currently investing out of their $67M Fund II.
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$50M seed-stage operator fund led by Raymond Tonsing. Thesis and stage agnostic firm. They typically partner with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company.
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Founded by Packy McCormick of the Not Boring newsletter, Not Boring Capital is on a mission to help founders tell their stories, and make the world more optimistic
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Backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investing in former science projects with a thesis-driven approach.
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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.
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AI researchers investing in AI, deeptech, robotics, and future of work.
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Believes that entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of progress, and they exist to help them realize their visions for a better world. Therefore, they invest in businesses with strong compounding moats, such as proprietary data, economies of scale and network effects.
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Seed stage venture firm led by the world's foremost thought leaders in AI with a mission to fund generations of AI-focused entrepreneurs. They invest in companies where AI is a core component and are looking for an amazing founding team who has insight on how to disrupt an industry with signs of product-market fit for their initial product, including revenue traction.
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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
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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.
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Partners with companies and founders trying to change the world, who want to upend paradigms, not just chase incremental progress. Over the past two decades, Lux has expanded from their New York City roots to Silicon Valley, and built a $4 billion AUM firm of more than 30 full-time professionals, with a wide spectrum of technical backgrounds and the versatility to invest at any stage.
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SF-based hard tech seed fund managing $300M+ AUM. As engineers themselves, they specialize in leading initial funding for founders tackling new technical opportunities. With a selective few new deals a year and 2/3 of their funds in reserve, they are committed to being a long-term partner, supporting each funding round and bridging any gaps in between.
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$10m Fund that invests in companies building in the Web3, AI, and Deep Science space that can generate massive wealth through the creation of structures that are more equitable, beneficial, transparent, and accessible.
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Led by Steven A Cohen, an investor with 30+ years of experience. Point72 ventures wants to invest in founders who are passionate, knowledgeable, differentiated, and all-in.
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Early-stage VC firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. The firm is laser-focused on funding exceptional entrepreneurs who are leading the AI revolution, capitalizing on the intellectual might and talent from the premier academic institutions on the East Coast, and fostering growth for its ecosystem.
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Led by Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, Metaplanet invests in novel and evidence-based innovation that could produce an outsized return for the benefit of humankind.
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New fund with a goal to help humanity become a net positive to nature by backing early-stage companies that are using disruptive deep tech to upend the unit economics of established industries
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Obsessively pursuing the near frontier, where software, hardware, & wetware intersect.
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Interested in companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; controlling spiraling healthcare costs stemming from aging and chronic disease; and feeding the world sustainably with continued population and standard of living growth.
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Early-stage, multi-thematic firm investing in purpose-driven founders reimagining the building blocks of life and society.
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Founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Invests in mission-driven founders, transformational technologies, and emergent ecosystems. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, leading-edge computation, and advanced engineering to transform various industries including the life sciences, agriculture, supply chain, and more.
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$50M Fund investing in seed-stage companies that deploy technology to enhance planetary and human health by radically upending traditionally regulated industries.
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Backs ambitious early-stage companies, setting the stage for emerging technologies since 2004. CRCM has invested in over 200+ companies resulting in 6 IPOs and 18 acquisitions - with more on the way. Their 2004 and 2012 vintage funds were ranked 4th and 1st respectively in Preqin Top Performing Early Stage VC Funds.
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Invests in creative bioscience companies harnessing the power of cells and computation to scale solutions in human health and sustainability.
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Partners with entrepreneurs solving real-world problems using data and machine learning, focusing on applications of frontier technologies such as AI, computational biotech, connected sensors, AR/VR, and blockchain.
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Backs visionary deep tech entrepreneurs aiming to transform large industries.
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A venture fund building deep tech companies powered by material science innovations
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Investing in technical founders at the earliest stages solving the biggest challenges facing our world.
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First check fund backing dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists before anyone else.
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Invests in deeply technical, under-networked founders trying to build their companies
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Invests in technically defensible or science-led businesses (quick litmus test: 12+ months of defensibility) solving a real problem for the end user / individual / consumer.
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Invests in founders building technology to transform the foundational industries that provide us with the food we eat, the products we need, and the critical services – like transportation and delivery.
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Backing entrepreneurs using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.
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Invests in startups with at least one immigrant founder.
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Invests in fast-growing companies with global potential for huge, positive impact
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Finance-first social impact VC
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Focused on pre-seed deep technology startups building around differentiated IP
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Founded in 1987, Canaan is a long-time early-stage investor currently investing out of their 12th Fund ($800M).
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Early-growth fund investing in deep tech ventures that accelerate the world towards a sustainable future.
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IQT’s mission is to invest in cutting-edge technologies to enhance the national security of the United States. They focus on the 15,000+ early stage venture-backed startup companies in the U.S. and select other countries. They also identify and analyze technologies in all stages of development that are critical to national security.
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Veteran financial market professionals aiming to provide the financing required to develop the space economy and pave humanity’s expansion into space, including realizing the positive impact potential inherent in space tech.
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Founded in 2012 from NYC, LDV Capital Invests in people building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data across the full tech stack.  
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Boost VC is an early-stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM in San Mateo, CA founded by Adam Draper & Brayton Williams. They invest in startups accelerating the Sci-Fi Future and are typically raising $2M or less.
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SOSV is a global venture capital firm that offers multi-stage investment, starting with pre-seed startup development programs designed for founders with breakthrough technologies.
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Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing in companies leveraging unique technology and valuable data sets to reimagine products, systems, and experiences across the economy.
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Invests $500K checks in deep tech companies, and companies applying known technical solutions (SaaS platforms, marketplaces, mobile apps etc) to laggard markets.
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Invests in founders building breakthrough technologies that can scale to become transformational platforms
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Single family office investing in early-stage disruptive technology, contributing to industry 4.0
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Founded by the co-founder of Tencent to invest in early-stage software companies.
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Dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem.
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Venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies.
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Partners with founders at the forefront of human-machine convergence
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Invests in specialized teams solving hard engineering problems. 
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Backs entrepreneurs shifting the future of aerospace.
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Founded in 2002, +ND invests in disruptive technologies across the life, physical, and data sciences. The fund's core belief is that scientific disciplines will continue to converge and that some of the biggest breakthroughs will be based on this convergence.
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Makes long-term concentrated investments in founders who are capable of growing with their companies and maximizing impact over a period of decades. Sector, geography, and stage agnostic.
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$150M technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California making investments in early-stage startups across software, life science, and deep tech.
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$37M Seed and Series A fund investing in founders developing therapeutic breakthroughs for age-related disease.
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Supports seed and early-stage investments in trailblazing, purpose-driven entrepreneurs with unique ideas that have the potential to reinvent entire industries.
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Invests in founders using science and technology breakthroughs to address humanity's biggest challenges and opportunities
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Invests in entrepreneurs applying AI and other deeply disruptive tech to solve problems on a global scale.
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Max and Nellie Levchin’s venture fund that partners with exceptional founders solving hard problems that require intense curiosity, intellectual depth, and often, science.
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Making the world a better, safer place by investing in frontier and dual-use technologies built by veterans, intelligence leaders, and premier research labs.
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Pebblebed invests in early-stage companies with profound technical insight as its differentiator. They like to back businesses that build long-term moats, like end-user stickiness, brand, or high switching costs.
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Early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
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Space.VC is the premier VC fund for Space. They invest in early-stage space and space adjacent startups, including software, AI, defense, manufacturing, and climate.

Their due diligence process starts with an Introductory call with Founder., then some Follow-Up Questions. a 2nd Call with full Space.VC Team before making an Investment Decision.

Space.VC can help with customer introductions. talent acquisition. capital fundraising. and a DoD & Government network.
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Venture arm of OpenAI. Also runs Converge: a highly selective, five-week program for exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine products and industries.
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First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.
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Invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
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Social Capital is a venture capital investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs at all stages
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Octopus is a multi stage European venture capital investor specializing in health, fintech, deep tech, B2B software and consumer.
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Led by 4 technical GPs who met in engineering at UPenn, Eniac is armed with over 80 years of combined experience building their own companies, and are your active partners and roll up their sleeves to work for you. Their companies enjoy support in biz dev, fundraising, networking, ops, PR, and recruitment.
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We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Led by accomplished investor Chris Sacca, Lowercarbon Capital funds research and invests in technologies that reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Lightspeed's mission is to serve the world’s most extraordinary people who are building tomorrow’s companies today.
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Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.
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Global, technology-focused investment firm with offices in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. They practice a collaborative, research-focused style of investing and regularly make early, growth, and buyout investments in the same tech sector.
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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.
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Early-stage venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications.
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Invests in relentless early-stage, high-growth technology companies bringing massive offline industries online.
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Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm backing early-stage deep technology enterprise companies
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Conscience is an early-stage firm investing in science empowering humanity.

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