New AI VC Funds in 2026

Seaya is a Madrid-based investment firm founded in 2013 by Beatriz González, investing across early-stage, impact, and growth-stage European technology companies through three strategies: Seaya Ventures, Seaya Andromeda, and its newest growth vehicle, Seaya Nova. The firm recently opened a London office alongside the Seaya Nova launch.

Relational Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm launched in 2026 by solo General Partner Maria Davidson, who spent eight years as founder and CEO of Kojo, the largest construction procurement platform in the United States. The firm invests in early-stage technology companies, with a thesis centered on solving the friction points and scaling obstacles that come with the adoption and diffusion of artificial intelligence.

Masia is a Barcelona-based venture capital firm founded in 2025 by Carlos Trenchs and Pepe Borrell, investing in early-stage AI and frontier tech companies founded by people with a connection to Barcelona. The firm acts as an advisor rather than a lead investor or board member, relying on a network of more than 70 individual limited partners and more than 60 co-investing venture firms to support its portfolio.

Inovia Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital firm founded in 2007, investing in software and AI companies with global ambitions from pre-seed through pre-IPO. The firm manages more than $2.7 billion in assets across its venture, growth equity, and Discovery Program fund-of-funds strategies, with additional offices in Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Abu Dhabi.

Inspired Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker. The firm invests from pre-seed through Series A under its "An Inspired Future" thesis, backing founders in areas including digitizing the industrial economy, retooling the workforce, building the monetization layer of the internet, unlocking AI's potential, and supporting financial stability, with recent bets in physical AI and quantum computing.

BackingMinds is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Sara Wimmercranz and Susanne Najafi, investing in early-stage companies across Sweden and the wider Nordics that tackle environmental or social challenges, such as cutting carbon emissions and improving healthcare and education. The firm backs founders who are often overlooked by traditional venture capital, including women, founders with immigrant backgrounds, and companies based outside capital cities.

Bison Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, originally founded in Seattle in 2021, investing in AI applied to physical systems such as energy, food, factories, biology, and infrastructure, a category the firm calls Real World Intelligence. The firm also backs energy and compute innovations that enable these systems, investing from pre-seed through Series B in founders building non-incremental technology.

HIRAC Fund is a Tokyo-based venture capital fund operated by Money Forward Venture Partners, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's Money Forward. The fund invests in seed and early-stage startups using technology to address social problems and revitalize local economies, acting as a hub linking its financial-institution and corporate limited partners with portfolio companies for business partnerships and regional expansion.

NeoGenesis Capital is a US-based venture capital firm investing in programmable biology at the intersection of AI and synthetic biology. The firm pursues a concentrated, single-ecosystem strategy centered on Colossal Biosciences, investing in Colossal itself and in companies built on or incubated from its platform, targeting longevity, fertility, agriculture, environmental remediation, and AI-native genetic design.

49 Palms Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2024 by two former Simon-Kucher & Partners senior partners. The firm invests in early-stage AI founders, pairing its investments with monetization and go-to-market advisory drawn from its co-founders' pricing consulting backgrounds.

Pear VC is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups, known for finding founders early through its PearX accelerator program and its hands-on, high-touch approach to company building.

Aliyah Ventures is a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm backing immigrant founders (olim) building technology companies in Israel, founded by former McKinsey executive Ron Alpar. The firm describes itself as Israel's first VC fund dedicated to immigrant founders.

Square Peg Capital is an Australia-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies across Australia, Israel, and Southeast Asia, with a separate Opportunities Fund that backs its strongest portfolio companies at later stages.

Monte Carlo Capital is a Monaco-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage deeptech, AI, and space technology startups, pairing fund capital with co-investment vehicles to back founders from seed through growth.

Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures (MSIV) is a Corte Madera, California-based venture capital firm and the North Bay's first regional venture fund. Founded by Zachary Kushel in 2021, MSIV backs local entrepreneurs and startups in Marin and Sonoma counties as part of an “Invest Local” movement aimed at driving regional economic development and job creation.

Spark is a new €100 million venture capital fund from Bosch Ventures (Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH) dedicated to deep-tech startups across Germany. Set to begin investing on January 1, 2027, the fund sits alongside Bosch Ventures' existing global investment platforms and gives the firm a dedicated vehicle for backing early-stage German companies, with particular emphasis on the Baden-Wurttemberg region.

Union Square Ventures (USV) is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2003. Known as an early backer of category-defining companies including Twitter, Etsy, MongoDB, Coinbase, and Duolingo, the firm has historically focused on early-stage, Series A-led investing and is now entering a new cycle shaped around artificial intelligence, physical and offline data, open-source models, and energy.

DEPO Ventures is a Prague-based early-stage venture capital firm investing across Central and Eastern Europe since 2016. The firm manages a new fund dedicated to bringing startups from Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia into the Czech market, connecting them with local industrial and manufacturing partners.

PSV is a Copenhagen-based venture capital fund backing Nordic founders before product-market fit. Part of PSV Venture House, a firm tracing its roots to 2000 and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), PSV Tech invests across Denmark, Sweden, and Norway with a thesis centered on team strength rather than a fixed sector mandate, spanning AI, software, and digital infrastructure.

Disruptive is a Dallas, Texas-based investment firm founded in 2012 by Alex Davis. The firm backs private technology companies operating at or near public scale, structuring each investment deal by deal rather than through a traditional blind-pool fund. Disruptive has offices in Dallas, New York, and the Middle East and employs roughly 30 people.

Endeavor Catalyst is a global venture capital fund launched in 2012 as an initiative of Endeavor Global, the non-profit organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Headquartered in New York, Endeavor Catalyst operates as a passive, rules-based co-investment fund, backing select founders from the Endeavor network as they scale transformative businesses across underserved regions. Its distinctive structure allows it to invest without leading rounds or taking board seats, relying instead on the strength of the Endeavor selection process and the participation of institutional co-investors.

Story Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by brothers Jake and Brian Yormak. The firm makes early-stage investments in frontier technology companies that capture and leverage proprietary data to drive decision-making, with a focus on hardware-software integration across sensory systems, data processing, and machine intelligence.

Graduate Ventures is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 by alumni and entrepreneurs from Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam. The firm backs pre-seed and seed-stage startups and spin-outs founded by students, researchers, and alumni across Dutch universities, pairing capital with a network of more than 200 alumni investors who help portfolio companies grow.

Gaorong Capital (formerly Banyan Capital) is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Zhang Zhen, Gao Xiang, and Yue Bin, all former IDG Capital investors. The firm backs technology, consumer, healthcare, and industrial companies across Greater China, with additional presence in Southeast Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Gaorong manages more than $4 billion in assets across roughly 300 portfolio companies.

Mu Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Gary Benerofe in 2022, after 20 years spent building and exiting companies as an entrepreneur. The firm has backed 46 companies to date and runs community programming for its founder network, including Rec Room for deal sharing and Tap Night for connecting with top-tier founders.

LAUNCHub Ventures is a Sofia-based venture capital firm founded in 2012, investing in founders from Central and Southeast Europe and the region's diaspora. The firm has backed close to 100 companies over 14 years, with 18 exits and more than $790M in follow-on funding raised by its portfolio. LAUNCHub recruits successful entrepreneurs from its own portfolio as investors and team members, keeping the firm led by operators who have built companies in the region.

Headline (formerly e.ventures) is a global early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, with regional teams across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Founded in 1998 as BV Capital by Mathias Schilling and Thomas Gieselmann, the firm uses a proprietary platform, EVA and Athena, to track and score more than 10 million startups.

DIG Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Ross Mason and Melissa Klinger. The firm specializes in pre-seed and seed-stage investments in B2B SaaS, AI, and cloud infrastructure startups across Europe, Israel, and the United States. With a team of experienced founders and operators, DIG Ventures leverages its hands-on experience to support portfolio companies in areas such as go-to-market strategy, product development, and fundraising. With Fund III, the firm has sharpened its focus toward AI infrastructure and the foundational layers of enterprise software.

BAG Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm backing enterprise AI founders by connecting them with the operators who have scaled similar companies from the inside. Co-founded by former CapitalG partner Jackson Georges Jr. and former Google VP Bonita C. Stewart, the firm grew out of BAG Collective, a community of 450+ tech operators Georges founded in 2021. BAG Ventures pairs capital with hands-on access to a network of enterprise operators, positioning itself as a partner for founders navigating enterprise sales, procurement, and deployment.

Friends & Family Capital is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm that equips founders with strategic insight, hands-on support, and financial operating expertise as they scale. Co-founded by former Palantir CFO Colin Anderson and John Fogelsong, son of IVP co-founder Norm Fogelsong, the firm positions itself as a trusted partner for founders and CFOs building out their finance functions.

Enable Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in AI-driven, disability-inclusive technology. Founded by disability rights attorney Regina Kline in partnership with Sorenson Impact Group, the firm positions disability-inclusive design as a performance and market-expansion advantage rather than a corporate social responsibility initiative.

Dorm Room Fund is a student-run venture capital firm that lets current students and recent graduates invest in their peers, writing the first check for founders before they have traditional validation. Originally launched as a program within First Round Capital in 2011, the firm spun out as an independent vehicle with its own limited partners in 2022.

FREESBEE Ventures is a fund from Anton Vasiliev, Andrei Yuranau, and Mike Torro, investing in applied AI companies where AI replaces a job function rather than serving as a bolt-on feature. The firm pairs equity investment with acceleration support, including a partnership with performance marketing agency AdQuantum, aiming to help portfolio companies scale in quarters rather than years.

WEH Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Mumbai, investing in category-creating founders building what the market doesn't yet have. Founded in 2017, the firm has built a portfolio of more than 30 companies through two prior funds.

Seligman Ventures is the venture capital arm of Seligman Investments, a Menlo Park-based technology investor that manages approximately $30 billion across public and private markets. Launched in February 2026 with $500 million, the venture platform doubled its deployable capital to $1 billion within seven months, extending Seligman's research-driven public market strategy into early-stage and growth-stage private technology companies. The firm operates within the broader Seligman Investments platform, part of Columbia Threadneedle Investments, the global asset management arm of Ameriprise Financial.

Lightspeed India Partners is the India and Southeast Asia arm of Lightspeed Venture Partners, operating from Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, and Singapore. The firm has invested in the region for nearly two decades and is now raising its fifth India-dedicated fund, targeting $250 million and already about 80% committed as of September 2026.

Zero Infinity Partners (ZIP) is a New York-based venture capital firm investing in infrastructure technology, or infratech: startups deploying innovative technologies into physical infrastructure sectors including energy, power, mobility, logistics, water, waste, and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2022, the firm closed its oversubscribed second fund at $156 million in September 2026.

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), established in 1911, is a venture capital and private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. With a global presence, BVP has offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, London, Tel Aviv, and Bangalore. The firm manages assets worth approximately $20 billion.

Connect Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2012, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage founders across Europe. The firm backs founders building at the intersection of AI, hardware and automation, valuing technical depth, earned insight, problem-solving velocity and design for defensibility.

Breed VC is a US-based venture capital firm founded by Jed Breed, previously head of digital assets at Circle where he helped launch USDC, and later led Accomplice VC's institutional DeFi fund. The firm backs day-zero, pre-seed and seed founders building open financial infrastructure and decentralized AI.

NewSchool VC is a Belgium-based venture capital firm founded by Christophe Morbee, an angel investor and CEO of besox, a Belgian payroll and HR services company. The firm backs early-stage B2B technology companies working to automate and modernize established European industries.

Project Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2026 by Shahryar Barati, a three-time Imperial College London alumnus with a background in startup operations, venture investing and institutional asset management. It is the first independent, alumni-powered venture capital fund dedicated to Imperial College London's startup ecosystem.

Vinyl Capital is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 by TJ Mahony. The firm is partner-led, with no associates, principals, or platform team, and invests first checks in pre-seed startups across a range of sectors.

Cosmos Ventures is a U.S.-based venture firm backing "philosopher-builder" founders creating new institutions for the AI era, spanning AI safety and assurance infrastructure, frontier and open-source AI infrastructure, human-autonomy-preserving AI products, and education.

Matter Venture Partners is a Silicon Valley-based HardTech and deep technology venture firm investing in the physical infrastructure of AI, including semiconductors, robotics, quantum computing, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and energy. The firm partners closely with founders building at the intersection of AI and the physical world.

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital firm established in 2016 as part of Sagard, the multi-strategy investment platform backed by Power Corporation. The firm manages $7 billion in assets across its Portage platform, spanning venture capital, growth equity, and secondaries, and has backed more than 140 portfolio companies across 15 countries.

Bain Capital Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2001, with offices in the Bay Area, New York, and Boston. Part of Bain Capital's $225 billion global platform, the firm manages more than $10 billion in venture assets and invests from seed through growth equity across AI applications, AI infrastructure, commerce, fintech, industrials, security, and healthcare.

Forty.5 Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020, with headquarters spanning the United States, Singapore, and Serbia. The firm operates two integrated arms: F5V Build, a venture-builder program offering free pre-product support, and F5V Capital, its early-stage investment vehicle. Forty.5 Ventures backs founders across the United States, Southeastern Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Brighteye Ventures is a European venture capital firm founded in 2017, investing in early-stage companies building what it calls HumanOS, technology that helps people learn, work, and adapt in the AI era. Since inception the firm has backed more than 50 companies and manages $245 million in assets under management across three funds.

Transformation Capital is a Boston- and San Francisco-based venture and growth equity firm founded in 2016, dedicated exclusively to digital health. The firm describes itself as the largest dedicated digital health venture and growth equity investor, with more than $2.5 billion in assets under management across four funds. Its portfolio spans 50+ companies, including Datavant, Sword Health, Grow Therapy, and SmarterDx.

Crane Venture Partners is a London-founded venture capital firm established in 2015, investing from inception through seed stage in underserved technology hubs worldwide. The firm operates from five cities, London, San Francisco, New York, Singapore, and Bangalore, and has made 138 investments with 10 exits to date. MassMutual Ventures has anchored all of Crane's funds since 2018.

Radical Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Jordan Jacobs and Tomi Poutanen, dedicated exclusively to artificial intelligence. It emerged when AI was still niche and has grown into one of the world’s most prominent AI-focused VC firms, investing across the full lifecycle from early-stage to late-stage growth. Radical is known for its deep technical networks, early conviction in AI, and a track record of backing category-defining companies like Cohere and Waabi Innovation.

Intrepid Growth Partners is a Toronto- and London-based venture capital firm founded in 2026, focused on growth-stage AI companies with the potential to redesign how entire industries operate. The firm was co-founded by Mark Machin, former President and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, alongside Mark Shulgan and Ajay Agrawal, founder of the Creative Destruction Lab at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Seed Capital is a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm founded in December 2004, investing in early-stage Nordic startups from seed through Series A. Over two decades the firm has made 60 investments with 10 exits, including 5 IPOs.

Volition Capital is a Boston-based growth equity firm founded in 2010, investing in capital-efficient, largely bootstrapped software, internet, and consumer companies. The firm manages $2.6 billion in assets across six funds and has backed more than 70 active portfolio companies.

Luma Group is a New York-based multistage biotechnology investment firm founded in 2023 by Joshua Fink, bringing together scientific insight and computation to identify and back breakthrough life sciences companies from discovery through commercialization.

The Techshop is a Milan-based, EuVECA-registered venture capital firm founded in 2021, investing in early-stage B2B software startups across Italy and Europe.

Molten Ventures (formerly Draper Esprit) is a London-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2006, with additional offices in Cambridge and Dublin. It invests in high-growth European technology companies from Series A through growth stage.

GMO VenturePartners is a Tokyo-based corporate venture capital (CVC) firm founded in September 2005 as a subsidiary of GMO Internet Group, with an additional office in Singapore.

Cape Fear BioCapital is a Durham, North Carolina-based early-stage venture capital firm founded by three biotech operators-turned-investors to close a regional funding gap: North Carolina's research ecosystem produced world-class science but lacked access to early capital and experienced operators. The firm writes first checks and builds hands-on alongside founders at the earliest stage.

Cherubic Ventures is a global seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Matt Cheng, operating from Silicon Valley, Taipei, Shanghai, and Tokyo. The firm has built a network of more than 200 portfolio companies and 500+ founders, advisors, and institutional investors, and was among the first venture firms to adopt a solo GP model.

Swish Ventures is an Israel- and US-focused venture capital firm founded by Omri Casspi, the first Israeli-born NBA player. The firm backs early-stage technology companies and has grown to approximately $800 million in assets under management across three funds.

Uplift Ventures is a Hamburg- and Berlin-based deep-tech venture capital fund founded in 2025 and backed by Jungheinrich, the German intralogistics company. It operates as an independent limited company outside the Jungheinrich Group, combining entrepreneurial freedom with access to Jungheinrich's industrial network.

F&F Ventures is the investment arm of Founders & Funders, a San Francisco-based, relationship-driven venture community connecting entrepreneurs and investors across 12+ cities in the US and internationally. The firm backs consumer brands and the technology that supports them, sourcing deals through curated events and a global membership network rather than cold applications.

SaaSholic is a Brazil-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Diego Gomes, Gustavo Souza, and William Cordeiro, all longtime Latin American SaaS operators and angel investors. The firm backs Latin American B2B software founders, with a growing focus on AI-native, agentic software rather than traditional seat-based SaaS. SaaSholic has invested in more than 40 companies to date.

The Machine Age Fund is a dedicated hardware venture fund from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), marking the firm's first dedicated hardware investment vehicle. It targets the physical infrastructure of AI, chips, memory, networking, storage, data centers, robotics, and home AI appliances.

Permanent Capital Ventures (PCV) is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2024 by Mike Gamson and Jason Duboe, leading Series A investments in applied AI companies. PCV specializes in helping technical founders build go-to-market engines for enterprise scale, drawing on the founders' operating backgrounds at LinkedIn, Relativity, and project44.

OpenAI Startup Fund is the corporate venture fund affiliated with OpenAI, investing in early-stage companies applying artificial intelligence across healthcare, law, education, energy and infrastructure, and the sciences.

MassMutual Ventures (MMV) is the corporate venture capital arm of insurer MassMutual, founded in 2014. MMV invests across two fund families: Climate Technology, and Enterprise SaaS, Fintech, Cybersecurity, and HealthTech. This is a corporate venture fund (CVC), not an independently raised fund with outside LPs.

Capital F is a San Francisco-based, all-female-led venture capital firm investing in markets where women drive demand, spanning health, AI, and digital commerce. Founded by longtime operators Dawn Dobras and Margaret Coblentz, who have worked together for nearly three decades including at Charlotte Russe.

FGV Capital, formerly known as Fiat Ventures, is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage fintech, healthtech, and AI companies from pre-seed through Series A. The firm was founded in 2018 as Fiat Growth, a fintech growth consultancy, before launching its venture arm, Fiat Ventures, in 2021; in August 2026 the two entities rebranded together under the unified FGV brand. FGV Capital pairs capital with a full-stack growth, finance, and talent platform built from working inside more than 325 companies, rather than competing on check size alone.

RunwayVC is a Norwegian early-stage venture capital firm investing from pre-seed to Series A in industrial AI, software, robotics, automation, and autonomous systems. Founded in Oslo in 2021 by Tor Bækkelund and Kjell Inge Røkke, the billionaire chairman of Aker, the firm operates from Aker Tech House in Fornebu and is part of the wider RunwayFBU ecosystem, which includes more than 60 industrial tech companies, an Industrial AI and Robotics Lab, and an incubator. Since 2022 the firm has invested in 24 companies and made 23 follow-on investments through Fund I, with two exits.

Galileo Ventures is an Australian pre-seed and seed venture capital firm with a San Francisco office, backing emerging founders across AI, robotics, enterprise software and deeptech since 2020. The firm was the first institutional investor in more than 25 companies including Relevance AI, Andromeda, Kite Magnetics and Tixel.

Kona Venture Partners is South Korea's only independent, game-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2018 and based in Seoul. Led by CEO Choi Hwa-jin, the firm has built a track record of roughly 32 investments across 23 active portfolio companies, with five recorded exits, and has previously managed strategic-investor partnership funds with major gaming companies including Krafton, Kakao Games, Netmarble, and Tencent.

Makers Fund is a global venture capital firm dedicated to games and interactive entertainment, founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco with teams in London, Reykjavik, Tokyo, Singapore, New York, and Los Angeles. The firm was the first investor in and largest shareholder of Dream Games, later acquired by CVC, and has backed more than 90 portfolio companies including General Intuition, FaceIt, PixAI, and Voldex.

QuantumLight is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Revolut co-founder and CEO Nik Storonsky, run by co-founder and CEO Ilya Kondrashov. The firm uses a proprietary AI system called Aleph to screen and evaluate growth-stage technology investments with limited human involvement, investing globally across AI, fintech, SaaS, healthtech, and deep tech. QuantumLight has backed 27 companies to date, five of which have reached unicorn status, including Together AI, Function Health, Factory, Robin AI, Ben, and Fuse Energy. The firm closed its second fund at $500 million in August 2026, an oversubscribed raise that doubled the size of its $260 million debut fund from May 2025.

Layer Global is a venture capital firm founded in February 2026 by Anton Levy, former co-president and chairman of global technology investing at General Atlantic. After nearly three decades backing category-defining tech companies, Levy departed General Atlantic to build a concentrated, stage-agnostic investment firm. Layer Global positions itself as an active partner for founders navigating what Levy describes as an AI super cycle, where speed, precision and execution matter more than ever.

Blackbird Ventures is an Australasian venture capital firm headquartered in Sydney, investing across every stage of a technology company's life from idea to beyond IPO. Founded in 2012 by Niki Scevak and Rick Baker, the firm backs Australian and New Zealand founders across software, deep tech, AI, robotics, space, healthcare and other frontier technology sectors, holding a portfolio of more than 130 companies including Canva, SafetyCulture and Culture Amp.

GD1 (Global From Day One) is an Auckland-based venture capital firm backing New Zealand technology companies from pre-seed through Series B and supporting them in scaling into global markets. The firm operates as a generalist fund with specialist partners across hardware, health, frontier technology, software, and financial infrastructure, and every member of its investment team has previously built, operated, or scaled a company.

K2 Global is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by solo venture capitalist Ozi Amanat, with a presence across Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Miami. The firm invests in private technology companies from seed through growth stage, with a long-standing focus on internet, software, and technology-enabled businesses. K2 Global has built concentrated positions in category-defining companies and has backed firms including Uber, Spotify, Alibaba, Airbnb, Palantir, Coinbase, and OpenAI.

Accel is a global venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The firm backs entrepreneurs building category-defining software companies from the earliest stages through growth, with offices across the US, Europe, India, and Israel. Accel has backed more than 800 companies to date.

Team8 Capital is the venture capital arm of Israel-based Team8 Group. Founded in 2014 by Nadav Zafrir and Liran Grinberg, the venture arm was launched in 2019 in partnership with Managing Partner Sarit Firon to invest in high-growth technology companies across cybersecurity, software infrastructure, fintech, and digital health. Leveraging the broader Team8 Group's company-building platform, Team8 Capital supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance, domain expertise, and access to a global network of more than 90 in-house company builders and a Village of hundreds of enterprise executives.

Don't Quit Ventures (DQV) is a solo-GP venture capital firm founded by Noa Khamallah, investing in early-stage, sector-agnostic startups globally. The firm launched Fund I with a focus on backing underrepresented and unconventional founders.

224 Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm launched in August 2026 by Shaun Johnson, previously co-founder of AIX Ventures. The firm invests in AI-native teams and is built around an LP base of AI operators drawn from big tech, the Fortune 100, frontier AI labs, and academia.

South Park Commons is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm and technologist community founded in 2016 by Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook's first female engineer and Dropbox's first female executive. SPC pioneered the '-1 to 0' investment philosophy, helping talented technologists explore and validate ideas before committing to a company. The firm has grown into a roughly 1,200-member global community with hubs in San Francisco, New York City, and Bengaluru, and has approximately $2 billion in assets under management.

Index Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in Geneva in 1996, with offices in San Francisco, London, New York, Geneva, and Jersey. The firm invests from seed through growth stage and has backed founders behind Wiz, Figma, Robinhood, Revolut, Roblox, Datadog, and Adyen, among others.

Highland Europe is a growth-stage venture capital firm headquartered in London and Geneva. Spun off from Highland Capital Partners in 2012 to focus exclusively on European-rooted technology scale-ups, the firm operates as an equal partnership backing exceptional teams across Europe and Israel.

Dimension Capital is a New York and San Francisco-based multistage venture firm founded in late 2022 by Zavain Dar, Adam Goulburn, and Nan Li, all formerly of Lux Capital and Obvious Ventures. The firm was built on the conviction that the boundary between life sciences investing and frontier software investing has effectively dissolved, and that the most important companies at this intersection require investors with genuine technical depth at both the model layer and the biology layer. In under four years, the firm has grown to $1.65B in AUM across three funds, a pace normally reserved for firms with a decade of distributions.

Avenue Growth Partners is a Washington, D.C.-based early growth equity firm co-founded by Ryan Russell and Brian Goldsmith, backing category-defining vertical technology companies. The firm takes a concentrated portfolio approach, making a small number of investments per fund to ensure each portfolio company receives full partner attention. Fund II closes significantly oversubscribed at its $155M hard cap, nearly double the $83M debut fund.

Primo Capital is a Milan-based multi-strategy venture firm managing funds across space, climate, health, and digital sectors. Its space investment strategy, launched in 2020 with Primo Space Fund, established it as the first European venture capital fund dedicated entirely to the space economy. Primo Space Fund invested in 19 companies across 6 countries, with portfolio companies raising over $525M in follow-on capital, generating over $126M in revenues, and reaching a cumulative enterprise value of $1.4B. Primo Space 2 is the successor fund, expanding mandate to include dual-use and defense applications alongside civil space technologies.

Chemistry is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm founded in October 2024 by Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, formerly of Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Andreessen Horowitz respectively. The three partners combined nearly four decades of investing experience at three of the most prestigious VC firms in the world, launching Chemistry to build a concentrated, high-conviction early-stage franchise with deeper founder relationships than large multi-stage platforms allow. Fund I closed at $350M oversubscribed in 2024; Fund II is targeting $500M and is reported to be oversubscribed.

Tau Ventures is a Palo Alto-based seed venture firm founded in 2019 by Amit Garg and Sanjay Rao, both former partners at Norwest Venture Partners with combined experience of over 50 years in Silicon Valley across Google, Samsung NEXT, Microsoft, and McKinsey. The firm invests in applied AI companies across digital health, enterprise software, and physical AI, and has backed 80+ companies across four funds with portfolio companies collectively raising over $6B in follow-on capital. The name Tau references the Greek letter equal to 2π, a nod to the founders' thesis that AI is a fundamental tool, not a trend.

1885 Capital is a Houghton, Michigan-based early-stage venture firm co-founded by Jim Baker and Vince Nystrom, operating in partnership with Michigan Technological University, an R1 research institution with $124M+ in annual R&D and spinouts including Handshake and Orbion Space Technology. The firm describes itself as the first rural-based, early-stage venture firm launched in the United States since 2018, and is built on the conviction that great companies can be built anywhere, and that the Great Lakes region is significantly undercapitalized relative to its industrial and research output.

Activate Capital is a San Francisco-based growth-equity firm founded in 2017 by David Lincoln, Raj Atluru, and Anup Jacob, investing in the technology backbone of energy, critical infrastructure, and industrial systems. The firm's founders lived through the first cleantech boom and bust of the late 2000s, having co-founded Element Partners ($860M AUM) and DFJ Element, and built Activate's strategy around commercial traction and unit economics rather than pre-revenue technology risk. With the close of Fund III, Activate has crossed $1B in AUM with a portfolio of 10 companies generating more than $3B in cumulative revenue.

Greylock is a Menlo Park-based early-stage venture firm founded in 1965, one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most decorated venture institutions. The firm has been an early partner to some of the defining companies of the internet era, including LinkedIn, Airbnb, Facebook, Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Roblox, Dropbox, Instagram, and Discord. Across its history, Greylock has been involved in more than 100 IPOs and 250 acquisitions. With Greylock 18, the firm formally declares an AI-first mandate, its most significant strategic repositioning in decades.

J-Ventures is a Palo Alto-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2018 by Jim Koshland and Oded Hermoni, operating across the US and Israel under what it calls a "Capitalist Kibbutz" model. The firm is built around a curated community of approximately 600 investors, operators, current and former VC partners, and serial founders, each capped at $500K in individual LP commitment, who collectively source deals, conduct diligence, and support portfolio companies. The firm has backed nearly 50 companies across three funds, with portfolio companies raising more than $2.5B in follow-on funding and six acquisitions completed to date.

Omni Ventures is a San Jose, California-based pre-seed venture firm founded by Simon Lancaster and Sabrina Paseman, both former Apple product and manufacturing engineers with over 20 years of combined experience inside global supply chains. The firm is the first dedicated venture fund for manufacturing technology, writing first institutional checks into software, AI, and robotics companies transforming how everything is designed, built, and operated. The founders built a 32,000-person industry network of manufacturing engineers and executives that functions as the firm's proprietary deal-flow engine.

Paradigm is a San Francisco-based multi-stage venture firm founded in 2018 by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, respectively a former Sequoia partner and a co-founder of Coinbase. The firm built its reputation as the most prestigious and technically rigorous investor in crypto, with a research-and-engineering org that ships widely used open-source infrastructure (Foundry, Reth, Centaur) and original security research (EVMbench, co-authored with OpenAI). With Fund III, Paradigm formally expands its mandate beyond crypto to the "technical frontier", adding AI and robotics as first-class investment priorities.

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures is a New York-based solo GP venture firm founded in 2023 by Ashley Smith, one of the few solo women GPs in venture capital. Smith spent her operating career in marketing leadership at Twilio, Facebook, GitHub, and GitLab, giving her deep first-hand experience in selling to developers and security teams. The firm backs technical founders at the earliest stages, with a specific focus on go-to-market strategy as a core value-add, helping founders skip the expensive mistakes most make when selling to technical buyers.

B Capital is a New York-based global multi-stage investment firm founded in 2015 by Eduardo Saverin (co-founder of Facebook), Raj Ganguly (former Bain Capital executive), and Howard Morgan (co-founder of Renaissance Technologies and First Round Capital). The firm manages more than $12 billion in assets under management across multiple funds, with offices across nine locations in the US and Asia.