# Top 50 Platforms VC (Venture Capital) Funds in October 2023

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

## Sequoia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## Tuesday Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

## Google Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

## Betaworks
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund, having invested in more than 150 companies. We invest in new consumer behaviors and trends powered by frontier technologies, and are often amongst the first institutional investors to invest.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

## DCM Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

## True Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

## Felicis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

## Greylock
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Venture capital and technology investments

## Kapor Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Software, Health Care

Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. We redefine what venture capital is capable of by prioritizing a new outcome: a more fair, just, and equitable society for low income communities and underrepresented communities of color.

## Social Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

## TMT Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Media

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Founders' Co-op
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

The Pacific Northwest's Seed-Stage Venture Fund

## LaunchCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

LaunchCapital invests in entrepreneurs who build the future. It focuses on the seed and early stages of development. They plan to make significant follow-on investments in exceptional companies as they continue growing.

## Tencent
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

## Threshold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

## UpWest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

UpWest is a Silicon Valley-based seed fund investing in Israel’s most promising entrepreneurs. UpWest is focused on a hands-on approach to supercharge the growth of its startups, providing the essential ingredients for success: seed funding, proximity and access to markets and capital, and a supportive community of talented peers. For moreinformation, visit upwest.vc.

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

## Webb Investment Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We invest $500-750K in early stage companies and have built a community of Affiliates, founders, and team members who are wired to give back.

## Social Leverage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Social Leverage   An early stage seed investment fund.

## Makers Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

## CRV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.

## Club Italia Investimenti 2
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

## Baseline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jackson, Wyoming, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Baseline addresses the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists.Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 100 companies and helped more than 50 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. We are proud to be a seed investor in the following companies (which were acquired by theseenterprises):PagerDuty (IPO)
SFIX (IPO)
Twitter (IPO)
Instagram (Facebook)
Freckle (Renaissance)
Spacious (WeWork)
Bloc.io (Thinkful)
PacketZoom (Roblox)
Apiary (Oracle)
Datalot (Lightyear Capital)
Pocket (Mozilla)
TaskRabbit (IKEA)
Gild (Citadel)
Launchkit (Google)
Pronoun (Macmillan)
Librato (SolarWinds)
Reverb (Wordnick) (News Distribution Network)
TrialPay (Visa)
TastemakerX (Rdio)
ExactTarget (SalesForce)
StackMob (Paypal)
GoInstance (SalesForce)
CoTweet (ExactTarget)
Heroku (SalesForce)
IndexTank (LinkedIn)
Versly (Cisco)
BookFresh (Sugar Media)
DocVerse (Google)
Stax (CloudBees)
Town.me (fka MixerLabs (GeoAPI)) (Twitter)
Parakey (Parakey)
Shape Security Inc (F5 Networks)
Machine Zone (AppLovin)
n'Way (Animoca Brands)
PopSugar (Group Nine)
Weebly (Square)
MangoHealth (TrialCard)
Thinkful (Chegg)
mLab (MongoDB)
Smyte (Twitter)
Appuri (Docusign)
Iron.io (Xenon Ventures)
Soma (Full Circle)
Careport (Allscripts)
Kanjoya (Ultimate Software)
Piqora (Olapic)
Blekko (IBM)
Path (Daum Kakao)
TellApart (Twitter)
Citrus Lane Inc. (Care.com)
Crashlytics (Twitter)
Metaresolver (Millenial Media)
Xobni (Yahoo)
OMBPop (Zynga)
Flowtown (Demandforce)
Hunch (eBay)
Instructables (Autodesk)
Aardvark (Google)
Cake Financial (E*Trade)
ScanScout (Tremor Media)
Yardbarker (Fox Sports)
Sendori (IAC)
Rupture (Electronic Arts)
Parakey (Parakey)

## Band of Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest angel investment group. We are an active group of 150 angel investors who are former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies.

## Harrison Metal
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.

## Uncork Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

## Atlas Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on the most compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

## Alliance of Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

## Ridge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world uses software.

## Javelin Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.

## Initial Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Software

Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## iAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

iAngels is a VC and angel investment platform that leverages due diligence and analytics to enable accredited investors around the world the ability to invest in early-stage technology deals in Israel.

## Tandem Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Apps

Tandem Capital is a seed stage venture capital fund investing in stellar founding teams whose innovation extends beyond their products into how they acquire their customers, develop their distribution channels and build their overall brands. Its portfolio companies are disrupting such industries as construction, consumer packaged goods andelectronics, entertainment and media, food and beverage, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics. These businesses originate from various locations around the world but often run global operations and always benefit from a strong connection with Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

## Battery Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that focuses on technology. Battery invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

## Relay Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

## Draper Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

## CVP Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

CVP Management is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early Series A, and early stage investments. It does not invest in life sciences, medical devices and energy production companies as well as businesses that require $5 million to $10 million of upfront capital before validating the concept. CVP Management seeks to invest inbeta, working prototype, and go-to-market stages. It prefers to invest in Information Technology infrastructure with focus on software application, internet, digital media, digital marketing, vertical SAAS, cloud, embedded software, mobile, financial service technologies, and cutting-edge information technology ventures. CVP Management invests in companies based in the Northeast corridor with a concentration on Boston, New York and Toronto. It typically invests between 0.1 million and $1 million and for Seed and Series A rounds it invests between $1 million and $3.5 million. CVP Management invests in companies with enterprise value of $5 million. It prefers to have a seat on the company’s board of directors in its portfolio companies. CVP Management prefers to invest in preferred stock. It began operation on June 1, 1998, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts.

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