Top California Angel or VC Firm Startups (78)

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

Hardware startups are hard. Hardware companies face unique barriers to design, manufacturing, distribution and retail. Highway1 offers a collaborative, hands-on environment to help startups move through these challenges and reach a looks like, works like prototype ready for funding. What our program offers: • Investment – Up to $100,000 investment in exchange for 8% equity or $50,000 for 5% •...

Founded in 1970, CRV (also known as Charles River Ventures) has been a leading investor in early-stage technology companies for more than forty years. CRV’s investment partners, all of whom are experienced entrepreneurs and operators, are focused on helping to build world-changing companies that create tremendous value. CRV has recently led early investments in some of the biggest consumer and...

One Planet Group is a closely held private equity firm that owns a suite of online technology and media businesses while also investing in early-stage companies. Owned and operated businesses span a variety of industries including ad tech, publishing and media. Our mission is to support strong business ideas while also building an ethos that helps improve society and gives back...

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CyberPowerPC produces and sells computer hardware, much of which is oriented toward gaming.

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...

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...

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....

Sunstone Management is a private capital management and investment firm offering comprehensive wealth management solutions to its worldwide clients, focusing on investments in U.S. based small businesses and lower middle markets. Investment offerings range from short term senior debt products to equity, growth capital, and VC investment strategies.

Mithril is a global investment firm founded by Ajay Royan and Peter Thiel. We provide capital to leading growth companies by partnering with teams who use technology to build transformative and durable businesses, often in industries long overdue for change. Each of these businesses is unique, but all face common challenges to unlocking long-term growth. We help navigate these critical...