Top California Angel or VC Firm Startups (94)

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

Sisu is a founder-friendly incubator that partners with aspiring entrepreneurs from the earliest stages, often referred to as "day minus one." Our goal is to help founders maximize their potential by providing guidance and support through crucial decisions made during the first twelve months. This includes assistance with cofounder pairings, fundraising, and establishing a solid foundation for long-term value creation. Sisu...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

Emergence Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise B2B software and SaaS companies, aiming to be a valuable partner to companies changing the way the world works.

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...

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.

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.

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...