Top San Francisco Bay Area, CA Angel or VC Firm Companies (61)
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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.
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.
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.
Vista Consulting Group (VCG) is the dedicated consulting partner of Vista Equity Partners, a leading global investor in enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. Our team of operating executives, practice advisors, and consultants provides a differentiated understanding of how an enterprise software company can thrive, offering counsel and proven solutions to ensure the Vista community continues to grow, evolve, and lead in their markets. With insights from hundreds of software investments made by Vista Equity Partners over two decades, VCG works alongside management teams to integrate best practices across business operations, talent management, product and technology, growth and expansion, as well as other strategic value creation initiatives to enhance our ecosystem of innovators. VCG is integral to Vista’s investment philosophy and vision, helping companies continuously improve and advance to the next level of excellence. VCG personnel are not employees or partners of Vista Equity Partners and are compensated separately for their services by portfolio companies or the funds managed by Vista Equity Partners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mithril is a global investment firm founded by Ajay Royan and Peter Thiel. We provide capital to leading growth companies by partnering with teams who use technology to build transformative and durable businesses, often in industries long overdue for change. Each of these businesses is unique, but all face common challenges to unlocking long-term growth. We help navigate these critical inflection points by investing in size and with conviction.
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.
8 DECIMAL CAPITAL is a multi-strategy investment firm focusing on token and equity investments. 8 Decimal currently has more than 40 portfolio companies with an AUM of 60M USD. The investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals.
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.
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
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/
One Planet Group is a closely held private equity firm that owns a suite of online technology and media businesses while also investing in early-stage companies. Owned and operated businesses span a variety of industries including ad tech, publishing and media. Our mission is to support strong business ideas while also building an ethos that helps improve society and gives back to communities. We believe that good ideas and profitable businesses are not enough; to positively impact the world, we need to align all our efforts with the right intentions. One Planet Group owns and operates Buyerlink, Autoweb, California.com, WestWind Pictures, One Planet Studios and the non-profit organization, BahaiTeachings.com.
Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) is a bi-coastal venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in capital under management. ATV's investment team works with entrepreneurs in several technology markets, including IT, healthcare and cleantech, to transform emerging growth companies into market leaders. Founded in 1979, ATV has an established track record of success in helping to build strong, sustainable companies.
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.
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.
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.
Runway Growth Capital is an experienced, reliable source of debt financing for dynamic, late-stage growth companies.
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