Top California Angel or VC Firm Companies (158)

Cie is a venture studio that serves as an innovation lab and accelerator for bold entrepreneurs who want to transform disruptive ideas into thriving ventures. Cie blends Silicon Valley DNA with the business maturity of serial entrepreneurs, seasoned venture capitalists, and Fortune 500 executives. Combined with the team’s strategic and operational expertise in technology, product development, brand building, and customer acquisition,...

M13 is an early-stage (seed and Series A) venture capital firm that invests in visionary founders building disruptive software businesses. Established in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles and New York, the firm is a full-stack partner that brings its deep bench of full-time operators to help founders outperform and build category-defining companies. M13’s portfolio includes more than 200 direct...

VLAB is a non-profit organization that connects entrepreneurs, founders, industry experts, and investors with ideas and technologies that have the potential to disrupt industries and create opportunities. Since 1990, its unique panel discussions have been one of the most popular forums in Silicon Valley, examining industry-disrupting innovations from varying perspectives.

Liminal (formerly Menyala) is a Founders' Studio that co-builds with top-flight founders. We provide build expertise, unfair access and funding to de-risk the journey from idea to Series B and beyond. Led by serial founders, backed by Temasek. Headquartered in Singapore and Boston.

B Capital is a multi-stage global investment firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to shape the future through technology. With $6+ billion in assets under management across multiple funds, the firm focuses on seed to late-stage venture growth investments, primarily in the Technology, Healthcare and Climate sectors. Founded in 2015, B Capital leverages an integrated team across nine locations in...

We are lifestyle and wellness experts. Our core business is home furnishings, but we’ve grown into six key categories (consumer products, services, technology, retail, logistics, and venture) through a suite of nationally recognized brands and powerful partnerships. Since 2019, we have proudly been a Certified B Corporation®. We meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. As...

Founded in 1992, JMI Equity is a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software companies. JMI has partnered and collaborated with countless entrepreneurs, founder-owners, and management teams over the past 33 years. JMI has invested in 190 software businesses, including 100+ cloud investments, 19 IPOs, and completed 120+ exits. Today, the Firm’s portfolio of industry-leading cloud software companies...

Pathlight Ventures is a New York-based early-stage venture fund that invests with high conviction in a small number of mission-driven companies each year. It uses thematic, market- and customer-driven theses to identify opportunities and works closely with founders on products, customers, early hires, investor introductions, and tactical advice. Its goal is to help ambitious companies build category leadership and scale...

8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.8VC.com

In 2010 Nephila Advisors LLC was established, predominantly to assist Nephila Capital Ltd with investor relations, develop strategic trading relationships and business development in the United States. Nephila Capital Ltd is a Bermuda based investment manager specializing in reinsurance risk. Nephila offers a broad range of investment products focusing on instruments such as insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, insurance swaps, and...

Turn/River Capital is a private equity firm that partners with software and SaaS businesses to accelerate growth and build enduring value. By combining flexible capital with a proprietary growth engineering strategy and a deep operational team of software operators and investors, the firm helps capital-efficient, data-driven companies transform from beloved products into market-leading AI platform leaders.

 Advantage Capital Partners invests in entrepreneurial small businesses in communities that are underserved by traditional sources of capital. The firm has built a strong and successful track record of public-private partnerships with state and federal economic development organizations, creating thousands of jobs and facilitating the flow of billions of dollars of investment capital into these communities.

Eclipse Ventures raises $1.3B to invest in physical AI, robotics, and hardware startups across transportation, energy, and industrial.

Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 4,500 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.

500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51...

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco, with extensive experience and networks in Silicon Valley and Japan, it helps portfolio companies access global opportunities and helps corporations innovate. Its investment platform sources industry-changing startups and supports their global growth through its network and corporate partners...

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.

Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides...

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $205 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2024. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, equity, and real estate. The firm has more than 1,200 employees and offices in 23 cities worldwide. For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website...

Y Combinator is an accelerator and seed fund that invests in early-stage startups and runs a recurring program to help founders refine product, pitch, and business strategy. YC provides a small amount of seed capital, intensive mentorship during accelerator cycles, and ongoing support and network resources to help startups scale, raise follow-on funding, and navigate the investor and acquisition landscape.