Top California Angel or VC Firm Startups (76)

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...

GSV Ventures is a venture firm investing in exceptional technology entrepreneurs creating scaled solutions in the “Pre-K to Gray” digital education and skills market Our portfolio companies include Coursera, Class Dojo, Degreed, Outlier, Remind, Course Hero, Master Class, and more.

Benchmark is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Woodside investing in and working alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. We focus on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure and enterprise software. Benchmark's $425 million fund is comprised of six equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur...

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...

ideaTree = id·ea·tr·ee / ˈidəāˌtree – a place or situation that permits and encourages development and acceleration of new ideas and makes them real. We create valuable mobile & internet companies that disrupt the marketplace when surrounded by our resources and ongoing mentorship. Our goal at ideaTree is simple: Give extraordinary ideas access to the resources they need to create exceptional technology...

Portfolio T is the venture studio for a global technology and digital company currently operating in stealth mode. But we’re unlike any venture studio you’ve experienced before. We work on disruptive, sustainable solutions that touch every aspect of life — energy and water, education, health, food, nature, renewable energy, tourism, media, financial services, mobility, and more. We’re also helping to...

Home We are a firm of twenty years in the making. We incubate concepts, facilitate their technology research and product engineering, and invest and raise equity funding. We turn inefficiencies and obsolescence into ideas, then take them from concept to commercialization. We have ten business concepts; three are scheduled to be launched. We recruit talent from all works of life. These...

Siemer Ventures is a boutique, early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping motivated entrepreneurs build sustainable technology-related businesses. Our founders are start-up entrepreneurs themselves who have built successful businesses in the past, providing them with a thorough understanding of the nuances of early-stage companies. We invest in early-stage tech companies positioned for rapid growth that are run by remarkable entrepreneurs...

Mainsail Partners is a San Francisco-based growth equity firm that invests in bootstrapped software companies. For more than 15 years, the firm has partnered with exceptional founders and entrepreneurs across numerous end-markets. Mainsail has a team of experienced operating professionals to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses and accelerate growth. For more information, please visit www.mainsailpartners.com.

At the heart of the AI revolution, InVitro Capital emerges as a pioneering Venture Studio, committed to transforming the landscape for small and medium-sized businesses ("SMBs"). Inspired by "In Vitro", the scientific method's ability to nurture life under controlled conditions, we specialize in de-risking the startup building process, bringing visionary ideas to life with precision and foresight. Our mission is clear:...

5AM was founded in 2002 and pursues investments in advanced life science innovations, and seeks to be diversified across the biopharmaceutical therapeutics, and platform technologies. Within each sector, 5AM invests across multiple therapeutic areas and modalities and evaluates opportunities based on innovative platform technologies, corporate spin-offs and products with shorter development cycles. Content 5AM shares on this platform is not, and...

Heavybit helps companies scale. We focus exclusively on companies building cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and APIs. Based in San Francisco, our program provides capital, strategic advice, operational services, and an expansive network to help grow companies of all sizes. The Heavybit community is the only one of its kind to focus solely on turning products loved by developers into successful...

aVenture is a venture capital research platform bringing data insights to inform better investment decisions. With aVenture, you can research startup companies, investors, and their key leadership to evaluate potential deals, market size, traction, competitive landscape, and more. aVenture's data confidence tools help you evaluate the insights already available and measure their accuracy. Investing involves risks, please read important disclosures at https://go.aventure.vc/d....

Seed & early-stage VC firm backing missionary founders attacking hard problems in large, real-world industries. We look for founding teams who can build a compelling product/service that can one day re-define a market or create an entirely new one. Our capital is early, active and patient.

Specialty finance company facilitating equipment financing in the IT, Healthcare and Renewable Energy sectors.

We believe–with the right support–great companies can be built anywhere. More than just capital, Mucker investors provide expertise, thought leadership, and the partnership founders need to build world class companies–anywhere in the world. MuckerLab is not your typical pre-seed accelerator program. We work with no more than 20-25 companies per year in annual cohorts. No three month bootcamps. No demo days....

Nth Power is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and is the first and most experienced venture capital firm funding promising startup companies in the growing sector of energy technology, materials and other related businesses. With $420 million under management in four funds and an investment record that begins in 1997, Nth Power is widely known and well...

Bee Partners works with passionate entrepreneurs possessing Deep Market Insights. We are frequently the first outside capital into a pre-Seed company. We also invest at the Seed-stage, helping to refer reference customers, capital sources, strategic insights, leadership support and more. At Bee Partners, we’re ready and eager to slog through the various tribulations of entrepreneurship and help founders produce efficient,...

Javelin Venture Partners was founded by former entrepreneurs with a first-hand appreciation of what it takes to develop a company from concept to thriving enterprise. We have been in your chair…resource constrained and exhausted, but driving forward with full confidence that your start-up has incredible potential to change the world. We’re here to help – providing capital, guidance, access to...