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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...

Costanoa exists to elevate founders building companies of consequence. We lead investments from formation through Series A in Applied AI, AI Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, National Security, and Fintech. With $2.3B AUM, we’re boutique by design—making fewer investments to deliver deeper expertise and operational support when it matters most: the early, defining stages of growth. For more information, please visit www.costanoa.vc.

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.

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...

We work with global corporate partners to identify the most pressing challenges that they, and broader society, face. Inspired by these complex problems, we launch startups built by proven entrepreneurs, product leaders and technologists that use their agility and talent to develop transformative solutions. After these companies have matured and proven market fit, our corporate partners are able to acquire...

Serent Capital invests in growing businesses that have developed compelling solutions that address their customers'​ needs. As those businesses grow and evolve, the opportunities and challenges that they face evolve with them. Principals at Serent Capital have firsthand experience at capturing those opportunities and navigating those challenges through their experiences as CEOs, strategic advisors, and board members to successful growing...

SAIGroup is a private investment company focused on acquiring and growing enterprise AI companies. The SAIGroup portfolio includes SymphonyAI, ConcertAI, and RhythmX AI.

Sydecar is a frictionless deal execution platform for venture investors. Our platform handles back-office operations for venture investors, automating banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting so that customers can focus on making deals and building relationships. The opportunity in venture capital is greater than ever. But for aspiring investors, getting started can be intimidating, expensive, and time-consuming. We’re here to help! Sydecar makes...

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...

Unusual Ventures is raising the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors. We enable startups with the hands on support and expertise they need to be successful during their early stage journey. Unusual Ventures is an early-stage firm that invests in both enterprise and consumer startups.

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...

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.

Runway Growth Capital is an experienced, reliable source of debt financing for dynamic, late-stage growth companies.

Strategic M&A Advisory Headquartered in Palo Alto with offices in New York

IGP is a San Francisco-based specialist private investment partnership focused exclusively on acquiring middle-market industrial manufacturing businesses. Since our inception in 1997, we have raised $2.2 billion in equity capital across five funds and have successfully invested alongside management in over two dozen platform transactions. Over that period, we have adhered to a consistent approach, focused on building global, market-leading...

The first early-stage fund dedicated to Augmented Reality (AR). Our fund invests in early stage startups that are developing the fundamental building blocks of augmented reality and are using AR+VR superpowers to change the world. Learn more about Super Ventures, our investment thesis and our portfolio at www.superventures.com.

Hillcrest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that takes a methodical approach to investing. Leveraging our experience with venture capital investing, operating startup companies, strategy development, product management, and investment banking in a structured manner, we help promising entrepreneurs create tomorrow's leading technology companies.Industries of InterestHillcrest Venture Partners invests in companies developing technologies in the following industries:Communications InfrastuctureEnterprise ApplicationsFinancial...

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.

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...