Patrick’s Day, everyone! (Web visitors, click here for an easier-to-read version of what you see below. This post originally appeared on the Employbl blog.Happy St. These funds control billions of dollars in assets and heavily influence the tech and startup ecosystem in the Bay Area and throughout the world. My motivation in compiling this list is to have a reference sheet for top venture capital firms in the Bay Area. It’s subjective, depends on who you ask and is completely subjective. Picking the “top” VC firms is a bit like picking the most popular kid in high school. This list is based mostly on my perception of venture capital working remotely in the Bay Area as a full stack developer. GSR Ventures is a premier global investment firm with $3 billion under management and consists of independently managed funds in China, US, and globally. You can view the Greylock portfolio here. They were founded in 1965 and have backed companies like LinkedIn, Nextdoor, workday and Dropbox. Greylock is one of the earliest venture capital firms still standing in Silicon Valley. Menlo Ventures has been venture capitaling in Silicon Valley since 1976. It was founded in 2009.ĥ00 Startups runs an early stage startup accelerator and invests in companies from all around the world. They invested in Uber, Lime, Blue Bottle Coffee and Nest among many others. GV was formerly known as Google Ventures. Spark Capital has invested in Cruise Automation, Wayfair, Twitter, Tumblr, Plaid and Oculus. Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 2000 and have backed Stitch Fix, Cheddar and hundreds of other startups. They investor in Yammer and were one of the lead investors in Slack. Social Capital was founded by Chamath Palihapitiya the current owner of the Golden State Warriors. The fund was started by Peter Theil, cofounder of PayPal, author of Zero To One and leading member of the “PayPal Mafia”.īenchmark Capital founded in 1995, Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Working on getting the full portfolio tagged on Employbl here.įounders Fund has made investments in Airbnb, Lyft, Stripe and was one of the first institutional investments in SpaceX and Facebook. You can see Y Combinator companies by valuation here.įirst Round Capital runs a well written industry blog. Y Combinator is an early stage venture capital fund and accelerator program that many wildly successful and lucrative companies have gone through. Kleiner Perkins aka KPCB was founded in the early 70s and is one of the founding firms of Silicon Valley venture capital. Investments include Affirm, Checkr, Coda, GitLab and HackerRank.Īccel Partners has made investments in Spotify, Bonobos, Venmo and CrowdStrike. According to Wikipedia they’ve invested in over 1,000 companies including Google, Apple, Oracle and PayPal. Sequoia Capital has been around since 1972. You can view a partial list of a16z portfolio companies here. The VC company has funded Facebook, GitHub, Okta, Optimizely, Slack and many more. This is his fund with Ben Horowitz, author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Here’s some more info and links to some of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley’s top VC firms:Ī16z: Marc Andreesen was CTO at Netscape Navigator, one of the pioneers of the internet. If you’re looking for a more financial analysis of venture capital firms I’d suggest looking at the Forbes Midas List, Top 20 Venture Capitalists by the NY Times or this article from the Founder Institute. No particular order for the listings here. Currently the company profiles have the office location, website and some meta tags. In the future I’d like to build up these profiles to have more information. Here’s the list with links to the Venture Capital’s company profiles on Employbl. Tl dr - CSV data of Venture Capital firms in the Bay Area. You can think of us like Crunchbase but free and open source ) Slowly we’ve been expanding to other regions throughout the US and adding more companies, but the core of our data right now is about Bay Area tech companies and startups. With Employbl we’ve been collecting and collating information about companies in the Bay Area.
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