Top San Francisco Bay Area, CA Angel or VC Firm Companies (54)
Strategic M&A Advisory Headquartered in Palo Alto with offices in New York
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/
Trading and Technology company making markets in primarily commodity futures. Based in California
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 may not be relied on, in any manner, as legal, tax, investment, accounting or other advice or as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any private fund, special purpose or other investment vehicle sponsored by 5AM Ventures. Content 5AM shares on this platform is not an investment recommendation. For a full list of all 5AM portfolio companies, please visit: https://5amventures.com/portfolio/
Inverness Advisors is a strategic advisor to middle-market and growth stage companies in the technology, media and enterprise services sectors. Inverness represents clients in M&A, financing and other strategic transactions. Our partners have extensive experience, having run investment banking groups at firms including Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery & Co., Cowen and Lehman Brothers. The Inverness team has a strong track-record of success in closing transactions with the leading strategic and private equity buyers in the industry. To learn more about our services, please visit http://www.inverness-advisors.com/
Nth Power is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and is the first and most experienced venture capital firm funding promising startup companies in the growing sector of energy technology, materials and other related businesses. With $420 million under management in four funds and an investment record that begins in 1997, Nth Power is widely known and well regarded as the driving force behind many of the most successful energy technology companies. The firm’s leading history in energy related venture capital is the result of a deep network of energy entrepreneurs, universities and research institutions, unmatched corporate relationships and the backing of institutional capital. And because the firm is located in the center of much of where energy is innovating, Nth Power plays a visionary role in pushing forward the businesses that are addressing some of the worlds most pressing energy challenges.
Portfolio T is the venture studio for a global technology and digital company currently operating in stealth mode. But we’re unlike any venture studio you’ve experienced before. We work on disruptive, sustainable solutions that touch every aspect of life — energy and water, education, health, food, nature, renewable energy, tourism, media, financial services, mobility, and more. We’re also helping to create the world’s first ecosystem of cognitive technologies, enhancing lives and protecting our planet with unrivaled connectivity, computing capability, AI, and robotics. At Portfolio T, we’re building an engine of change and a new generation of entrepreneurs. Our core values: Think Outside Yourself Solving diverse problems requires diverse perspectives—so bring your authentic self and an open mind. We always look through the user’s perspective to fully understand their needs and how we can best fulfill them. Fail Forward We don’t wait for the perfect answer. We use everything available to identify the problem, develop lean solutions, and learn from our experiments—because rapid action is the currency of innovation. Bring Your All Our work has a massive impact on our planet and its people—so we pour every ounce of passion, creativity, and courage into our ventures.
Fractal provides aspiring entrepreneurs with a business idea, a highly capable and complementary co-founder, capital, and ongoing support. Together, we’ll create fast-growing vertical SaaS companies that help modernize overlooked American industries.
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,
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.
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
Mainsail Partners is a San Francisco-based growth equity firm that invests in bootstrapped software companies. For more than 15 years, the firm has partnered with exceptional founders and entrepreneurs across numerous end-markets. Mainsail has a team of experienced operating professionals to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses and accelerate growth. For more information, please visit www.mainsailpartners.com.
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.
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.
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).
Benchmark is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Woodside investing in and working alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. We focus on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure and enterprise software. Benchmark's $425 million fund is comprised of six equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company we back, with no junior investment staff. Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Airtable, Airplane, Benchling, Cerebras, Chainalysis, Cockroach Labs, Contentful, HackerOne, LangChain, MindsDB, Modern Treasury, Robocorp, Sorare and Stytch; public companies such as Asana, Amplitude, Confluent, Elastic, New Relic, Nextdoor, Stitch Fix, Snap, and Uber; and Fortune 500 companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.
Knoll Ventures is an Atlanta, GA based venture capital fund that invests in early stage B2B software companies. We lead or co-lead $500,000 – $3,000,000 investment rounds at the pre-seed, seed, and post-seed stages.
Hall Capital Partners LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor that builds and manages customized, global, multi-asset class portfolios for families, endowments, and foundations. Hall Capital Partners oversees over $30 billion in assets for approximately 130 advisory clients and a platform of pooled vehicles from offices in San Francisco and New York. Hall Capital Partners does not endorse any third party postings or commentary.
Imagine H2O (IH2O), the water innovation accelerator, helps people deploy and develop innovation to solve global water challenges. By partnering with industry and policy experts and a global network of customers and investors, IH2O has become a proven path-to-market for emerging water technology businesses. Participants benefit from access to mentorship, industry exposure, customer and investor connections and strategy, market and sales support. Since 2009, Imagine H2O's accelerator has helped over 80 innovative companies win customers and receive more than 10% of early-stage investment in the water sector. Imagine H2O aims to further dismantle the barriers to innovation through its policy program and leadership activities. In 2015, Imagine H2O announced a multiyear commitment to advance the deployment of water data innovation and strengthen the quality of water accounting. From utility software and analytics to remote infrastructure monitoring and leak detection, IH2O's 2016 and 2017 portfolio companies offer a range of promising water data solutions for customers in agricultural, industrial and municipal markets. Join the leading ecosystem for water entrepreneurship and innovation.
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.
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