Top San Francisco Bay Area, CA Angel or VC Firm Companies (48)
AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate innovation. Our platform supports over $15B in assets for fund managers and has facilitated 17k+ startup investments (including 287 unicorns). Additionally, more than 1.3k startups use our suite of founder services to manage their business operations. AngelList is the de facto platform for investors, fund managers, and founders looking to build and invest in the next generation of great startups.
Founded by Peter Chernin, Jesse Jacobs, and Mike Kerns, The Chernin Group (TCG) is a multi-stage investment firm dedicated to building consumer businesses. The TCG portfolio includes Collectors Universe, Dapper Labs, Epic Gardening, Exploding Kittens, Food52, Headspace, Hodinkee, Lovevery, MeatEater, Opensea, Oura, Sketchy, Surfline, The Pro’s Closet, Zed Run and more. With a focus on majority and significant minority investments in growing consumer businesses, the TCG team has a track record of working with world-class consumer brands in digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, consumer blockchain, and health and wellness brands and platforms. At TCG we follow our curiosity, live with conviction, and find a little levity in our days. We don’t take small bets – we’re all in. With offices and team members in Menlo Park, Los Angeles, and New York and decades of experience building diverse business models, best-in-class teams, and lasting brands – we help our portfolio realize their full potential. To learn more about TCG and our portfolio companies, visit: https://tcg.co/
500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million. Our 140+ plus team members are located in more than 15 countries and bring experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from some of the world’s leading technology companies.
We are the first partner for founders. Over 80% of our investments are the first check: Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A. Many start on a whiteboard. Focused on AI-first companies. We partner selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence. We back founders who are building disruptive enterprise and consumer software companies such as: Airbnb (Nasdaq: ABNB), Abnormal Security, Adept AI, AppDynamics, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), CATO Networks, Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), Discord, Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX), Figma, Inflection, Instabase, LinkedIn, Meta (Nasdaq: Meta), Nextdoor (NYSE: KIND), Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Roblox (NYSE: RBLX), Rubrik, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).
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 businesses. By bringing its experience and capital to bear, Serent helps growing businesses thrive.
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio+healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. a16z has $28.2B in assets under management across multiple funds, including the $2.9B Bio funds, the $3.1B Crypto funds, and the Cultural Leadership Fund.
SV Angel is a San Francisco based Seed Fund. We help portfolio companies with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice.
Great entrepreneurs at the early revenue stage need more than capital to accelerate their business. NextWorld Capital leads Series A and B rounds and then helps entrepreneurs accelerate growth with our Global Enterprise Platform— designed to bring together the best enterprise startups and 100+ of the largest global corporates as customers and partners. NextWorld’s investments include Zuora (ZUO), Gong.io, DataStax, Copper, BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo), and DynamicOps (acquired by VMware). NextWorld is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London and Paris. www.nextworldcap.com
Founded in 1991, Calera Capital, formerly known as Fremont Partners, is a private investment partnership which has $2.8 billion of capital under management. With offices in San Francisco and Boston, Calera invests across a diverse range of industries, including financial services, business services, food and consumer, healthcare, building products,
Celesta Capital is a global early-stage deep tech venture capital firm, headquartered in Silicon Valley. Celesta was founded in 2013 and currently has over $1 Billion in assets under management and a portfolio of more than 100 emerging technology investments. Sectors we target include AI, semiconductors and systems, life sciences, cloud, advanced manufacturing, and more. Celesta was founded and is led by technology industry veterans with decades of experience as operating executives, investors, and technologists. Our team has amassed extensive track records managing multi-billion-dollar portfolios, as well as at prominent technology, manufacturing, and services firms, including Flex, Intel, Cisco, Micron, Apple, and KPMG. Building businesses is our passion and we leverage our management experience, technical expertise, and extensive networks to help founders navigate complex business problems and grow global companies at scale.
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 them, reaping strategic value while enriching their culture and core business. We believe this to be the shortest road to a faster, cleaner, safer, and more accessible future.
Camber Partners believes that modern software companies should be architected for mass distribution. In our 25+ years of operating experience, this has meant scalable, data-driven, and capital-efficient growth methods that, when executed properly, accelerate growth and compound enterprise value. Camber provides the capital and operating expertise to support this rapid, disciplined growth. Camber’s internal Growth team provides functional support in marketing, sales and customer success. Our dedicated data team unlocks the power of marketing, product, and customer data to increase LTV and scale customer acquisition. Camber’s hands-on engagement helps achieve the go-to-market execution that growth-stage software companies deserve. Camber prioritizes investment in growing B2B SaaS businesses with $3-15m in recurring revenue, and has a strong preference for Product-Led Growth (PLG) models.
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% • Engineering expertise – Full time EE and ME support • Prototype – 24/7 access to shared workspace and state-of-the-art prototyping labs • Scale – DFM advice from PCH manufacturing engineers • Design – Full time design staff & network with the biggest names in ID • Manufacturing demystified – an inside look at manufacturing • Community & Connections – network of hundreds of alumni, mentors and vendors • Fundraising – Refine your story and network with hardware investors Highway1 is a division of PCH, a custom product solutions company working with some of the world’s best brands.
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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.
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 manufacturing companies. Key Facts: - Founded in 1997 - Currently investing out of two funds (Funds IV & V) totaling $1.4 billion in equity capital commitments - Single office in San Francisco - Seek out investments in middle market industrial businesses with revenue up to $250 million and EBITDA up to $30 million - More information can be found at www.igpequity.com
Passport Capital, LLC is a San Francisco-based, global investment firm founded by John H. Burbank III in 2000. Passport Capital seeks to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns through a combination of macroeconomic analysis, fundamental research and quantitative tools. It employs top-down, macroeconomic analysis to identify durable, secular changes not reflected in asset prices. It conducts rigorous fundamental research in an attempt to identify individual securities that most effectively express the firm's investment views. Finally, the firm employs quantitative tools to construct portfolios aimed at delivering superior returns within specific risk and liquidity targets. Passport Capital is a federally registered investment adviser with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 4,500 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.
Susa Ventures is an early stage technology fund investing in entrepreneurs building defensible products, technologies and tools that create, capture, distribute and leverage proprietary and unique data. For many of our investments, data is an enabling platform as well as a monetization engine.
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. Posts are not an offer for a security or financial product. All investments require important disclosures prior to investing
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