Top San Francisco Bay Area, CA Angel or VC Firm Companies (60)
Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm with a mission to build enduring companies by working with, learning from and developing exceptional people. This PeopleFirst strategy involves finding great values-led CEOs and working closely with them as CEOs-in-Residence to find and pursue founder-owned businesses that are poised for growth but are looking for additional leadership post-transaction. Alpine then works to support these CEOs and invest in their continued development and growth as they lead the acquired company to new heights. Over 15 CEOs have worked with Alpine in this capacity, and the average revenue growth in a CEO-in-Residence led company has been over 200% during the life of Alpine’s investment. Alpine specializes in lower middle-market companies in the software, online and business services industries. We have raised over $900 million of committed capital and have invested in 52 companies since inception in 2001. The Alpine team includes 18 professionals with diverse investing, operations, management, and finance backgrounds. Visit us at www.alpine-investors.com to learn more.
DCVC (Data Collective) and its principals have backed brilliant people changing global-scale industries for over twenty years, helping create tens of billions of dollars of wealth for these entrepreneurs while also making the world a markedly better place. DCVC brings to bear a unique model that unites a team of experienced venture capitalists with more than 35 technology executives and experts (CTOs, CIOs, Chief Scientists, Principal Engineers, Professors at Stanford and Berkeley) with significant tenures at top 100 technology companies and research institutions worldwide. DCVC focuses on seed, Series A, and growth stage companies that apply deep compute, big data and IT infrastructure technologies to transform giant industries. Learn more about us at www.dcvc.com, read our thinking at https://medium.com/@dcvc, and follow us on twitter at @dcvc.
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.
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 an expansive network and most importantly, entrepreneurial DNA. We invest in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy and capable leaders. Key focus areas include cloud, big data, enterprise software, SaaS, e-commerce, mobile, health/wellness and digital media. We look for advanced innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial and strong competitive advantages exist. Our typical investment is between $250K to $4 million, with reserves for follow-on investments. Our office is located in San Francisco, but we invest throughout the world.
HGGC is a leading global private equity firm with over $4.3 billion in cumulative capital commitments and oversees portfolio companies that employ more than 60,000 employees globally. Over its history, HGGC has completed platform investments, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations and liquidity events with an aggregate transaction value of over $17
KKR is a leading global investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate and credit, with strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns for its fund investors by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, empl
DominateFund accelerates the growth and visibility of promising early-stage startups by coaching entrepreneurs in product, marketing, branding, media, customer acquisition, virality, user experience and design. Every startups needs attention to survive. Most of the time, this is attention from users, but startups also need to capture the attention of customers, enterprises, the press, other investors and top-tier prospects. Attention is a central component to a startup’s survival. DominateFund was founded by former Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, along with partners Matt Schlicht and Mazy Kazerooni. The fund's work is based on the team's experience in marketing, media and branding, along with Parr's research for his upcoming book, "Captivology: The Science of Capturing People's Attention".
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.
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.
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
Heavybit helps companies scale. We focus exclusively on companies building cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and APIs. Based in San Francisco, our program provides capital, strategic advice, operational services, and an expansive network to help grow companies of all sizes. The Heavybit community is the only one of its kind to focus solely on turning products loved by developers into successful businesses.sit http://heavybit.com.
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.
CB Insights fuses machine learning, algorithms, data and visualizations together to help large enterprises ask, answer and articulate compelling answers to difficult questions - about growth, about competition and about the markets and technologies of the future.
Khosla Ventures provides venture assistance and strategic advice to entrepreneurs working on breakthrough technologies. The firm was founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. With over five billion dollars under management, the firm focuses on a broad range of areas including consumer, enterprise, education, advertising, fina
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.
Mayfield is a global venture capital firm with $2.5 billion under management. The Firm has been championing people for more than 50 years. Since its founding in 1969, the Firm has invested in more than 500 companies resulting in 117 IPOs and more than 200 mergers or acquisitions. Some recent successes include CloudSimple, Elastica, Grove Collabor
Commerce Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing and empowering the next generation of technology innovators in the retail and financial services industries. Our deeply committed LP base is composed of a strategic blend of established entrepreneurs, corporate executives and market leading corporations, enabling us to meaningfully add value to our portfolio companies via introductions to potential clients, distribution partners, top tier advisers and potential key executive additions. We also pride ourselves on being a thought and strategy partner to our portfolio CEOs when we can be helpful, but not wasting their time otherwise. For more information about Commerce Ventures and our 40+ incredible portfolio companies, please visit commercevc.com.
Obvious is a small company in downtown San Francisco, started in 2011 by Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman. We believe in the power of building systems that help people work together to make the world smarter, healthier, and just ... better.
Menlo Ventures provides capital for seed through growth technology companies in the consumer and enterprise sectors. For decades, the firm’s market-driven research analysis has led to the identification of and successful exits in innovative technology markets. Notable research areas of investment include Mobile (Siri, Uber, TeleNav), Enterprise Sto
Forerunner Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in ambitious entrepreneurs to define and dominate a new generation of commerce
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