Funds that lead Series B

One of the most important parts of putting together a round is getting a stellar lead in place. If you're raising your Series B and looking for a lead, start here.
One of the most important parts of putting together a round is getting a stellar lead in place. If you're raising your Series B and looking for a lead, start here.

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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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Led by former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and former Twitter COO Adam Bain. Venture and advisory firm helping founders go from building a product to building a company.
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First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.
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An investment platform that partners with courageous entrepreneurs to build category-creating companies. Their cognitively diverse team helps founders understand latent demand, unlock new markets, and scale businesses that change our world–for the better.
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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.
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Backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Anthem Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in Southern California investments. They are active investors that almost always lead/co-lead and take a board seat. They look at under-the-radar opportunities and stay away from areas we think are crowded.
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Anthemis Group is a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses.
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SF-based VC firm built by pioneers within TechBio to invest at the intersection of technology and biology and healthcare. 
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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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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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Focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.
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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.
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Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.
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Founded by the co-founder of Tencent to invest in early-stage software companies.
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Invests in solutions to complex problems in human and animal health.
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Partners with entrepreneurs in building long-term, sustainable businesses.
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ECMC Group's $250M Education Impact Fund invests in impact-driven, financially scalable ventures and funds that are focused on postsecondary education and workforce development.
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Invests in fast-growing, revenue-stage Software, Marketplace, and eCommerce companies that are driving innovation across the consumer ecosystem.
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Specialized B2B Fintech & Insurtech fund based in the US & UK with $1.3bn in assets under management. Backs teams from all stages with 100+ portfolio companies.
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Partners with creative and passionate entrepreneurs aspiring to transform the business of healthcare.
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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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Foundry is a unique offering in the venture capital market with a symbiotic network that propels innovation.

Founded in 2007, their firm manages more than $3 billion for our limited partners, and has invested in hundreds of companies and dozens of venture funds.
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Focused on interactive content and technology companies
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We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Global venture capital firm focused on multi-stage, sector-focused investments. Recognizing that the talent to build great companies can come from anywhere, the firm invests in founders building category-leading companies around the world. Founded in 2000 with roots in Singapore and Silicon Valley, GGV has expanded with additional offices in San Francisco, Shanghai, and Beijing.
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Early-stage venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs and operators who've built companies cumulatively worth $300 billion. GreatPoint's mission is to partner with entrepreneurs solving big problems across enterprise, healthcare, bio-tech, and food. In order to have time to fight in the trenches with every team they back, they make fewer than 10 new investments per year.
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VC firm founded in 2012 that makes concentrated, long-term investments in technology-enabled businesses globally.
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Invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer, crypto, and enterprise software companies across all stages.
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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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Headline is a global venture capital firm investing in rising founders across B2B and B2C, with teams on the ground in 7 cities around the world. Since its founding in 1998, Headline has worked alongside founders with global aspirations from Silicon Valley to São Paulo, Beijing to Berlin.

They are actively on the ground across continents, seeing local trends up close, searching for top founders, and bringing them our world of resources. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth – connecting entrepreneurs to each other, to customers, and to insights from distant markets – to help them become a global success.
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A venture firm for builders. The firm has $1.5B in total capital committed and has built a community of over 5,000 incredible, driven, ambitious builders.
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Founded in 2017 to fund exciting entrepreneurs in the consumer landscape.
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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.
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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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Focused on technologies that extend the boundaries of human performance
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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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VC fund firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning.
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Fund that spun out of Insight Partners to invest in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.
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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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Invests in what the world needs.
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Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare
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Early-stage venture capital fund partnering with founders from Seed to Growth. Across Europe and the US. In September 2022, Northzone raised €1bn to invest from Seed to Growth.  Has offices in London, Stockholm, and NYC
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Offers entrepreneurs a broad range of services to help them build their businesses at every stage of growth. They realize that one size does not fit all when it comes to today’s operational challenges. Norwest's mantra is "All of what you need and none of what you don’t".
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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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Paypal's venture capital arm. Invests in FinTech companies that are working on transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused products.
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QED is the premier VC in the fintech space. They are operators well regarded for our expertise, engagement, and empathy. QED invests in businesses that disrupt and empower.
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$500M Growth equity fund (Series A/B) based in NYC Investor Operator model Focus on capital efficient businesses
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Partners with exceptional entrepreneurs starting at the earliest stages of the climb.
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REMUS invests in the underdogs. the contrarians. the resilient. They want to write the untold stories that rewire prevailing ways of thinking and doing.
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Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.
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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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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.
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Tribeca works with NY companies seeking Series A funding. They work closely with industry leaders and the community to build and grow the NY Tech ecosystem. Tribeca is selective and only invests in 5-6 companies per year.
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Two Sigma Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in companies run by highly driven people.
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Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
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Waverley Capital is a US-based venture capital firm focused on investing in and helping build category-defining companies in the $1T+ global media, entertainment and sports ecosystem.

They have a pretty straightforward due diligence--Series of meetings with investment team, diligence / data requests, reference calls, and a decision.

They support founders in numerous ways, whether or not we are the largest check, a formal board member, or even a lead investor.

Our team has decades of experience both investing and operating in the media, entertainment and sports sectors which brings a wealth of knowledge to help founders building in those spaces.

Moreover, as our LP base is primarily comprised of current and former C-level executives and board members of the world's largest media & technology companies, we leverage this 'extended team' to bring differentiated advantage for our founders. This can include pre-investment diligence, board membership, founder mentorship, strategic investment, and BD / M&A collaborations.
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NYC-based healthtech VC firm investing across medical technologies and digital health
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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.
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