Airtable

Focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

Freestyle has been investing for over 12 years and was one of the first firms started by Founders. Their GPs, Dave & Jenny each have over 25 years in tech, both successfully exiting multiple times. Freestyle boasts a portfolio of 130+ companies.

Tuesday Capital is a VC firm that invests in companies and maintains a variety of relationships with other VC firms.

Led by investors including Micah Rosenbloom, David Frankel & Eric Paley, Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.

Invests in early-stage investments in technology companies with conviction since 1970.

Founded by former Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Dropbox Head of Business Sujay Jaswa, WndrCo builds and invests, especially around the Future of Work, Security, and Consumer Technology.

Backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost

$50M seed-stage operator fund led by Raymond Tonsing. Thesis and stage agnostic firm. They typically partner with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company.

VC firm founded in 2012 that makes concentrated, long-term investments in technology-enabled businesses globally.

BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.

Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.

Focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.

Invests in companies central to the technology industry and those on the edges of science, society, and culture.

For the most enterprising founders.

Eric Paley, a longtime founder-focused VC, climbed two spots on this year’s Seed 100 list thanks to a string of recent successful exits at his firm, Founder Collective. These include Blissfully (acquired by Vendr), Codecademy (acquired by Skillsoft), Par80 (acquired by Cloudmed), and Finxera (acquired by Priority Payment Systems). Paley, who previously founded a dental startup that sold to 3M, said he didn’t believe in “themes.” Instead, he said, he looks for founders who are “all over it.” He added, “When you ask them a question, they’ve clearly thought about that challenge and can preempt your following three questions by linking their answer to other areas of their business.”

Kevin Mahaffey said he was building software by age 8. Since then, the self-professed hacker has channeled his talent into starting the cybersecurity firm Lookout. He also serves as the chair of his wife’s startup, Stork Club, which partners with major insurance providers to help employees manage out-of-pocket costs for maternity and fertility care. As a successful angel investor, he also helps others build durable companies. Ten of the startups in his portfolio grew their private-market valuations to $1 billion or higher, including the workplace data-management startup People.ai, which hit its unicorn milestone in August. Trust is the key to his investing success, Mahaffey said. “Startups tend to be an emotional roller coaster, with things never as good or as bad as they seem,” he said. “The path can be lonely, and it’s always better knowing you have someone in your corner.”

Avichal Garg’s tour through tech began at Google, and he landed at Facebook in 2012 after the social-media giant bought Spool, his mobile bookmarking startup. At Facebook, he led product management for a 400-engineer team. His investing career involved a brief stint at Y Combinator, after which he struck out on his own to build Electric Capital, a firm that invests across fintech and crypto. He’s now among the beneficiaries of a wave of capital pouring into Web3 — a catchall term for crypto, blockchain, and metaverse companies — with two newly closed funds worth $1 billion.

Alexa founded Inspired Capital in 2019 with the aim of helping Seed and Series A consumer and enterprise tech businesses become category-defining companies. Alexa has seen success with investments in B2B fintech Rho Technologies, social calendar platform Saturn and customer-focused AI startup Forethought. She draws on over a decade of experience as the founder and CEO of LearnVest, a learning platform that helped bring personal finance to the masses on its way to raising over $75 million in venture capital before being acquired by Northwestern Mutual in one of the biggest fintech acquisitions of the 2010s. Beyond her role at Inspired, Alexa is a New York Times-bestselling author, writes as a columnist for Inc. and hosts both ‘The Founders Project with Alexa von Tobel’ and 'Inspired in 15.' She has been recognized on the cover of Forbes, Fortune's 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30, and is a Henry Crown Fellow.

Prior to Coatue, Dan spent 20 years in leadership roles at both Amazon and Facebook. He has personally made more than 100 angel investments including Gusto, TripActions, OpenDoor, Flexport, Airtable and Figma.

A San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Founder and Managing Director of Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm. Specialties include Venture Capital, Growth Capital, Secondaries, Private Equity, Equity & Debt Financing.

"At Parse, we set out to change how developers built apps -reaching millions of developers and powering hundreds of thousands of apps. From writing the first lines of code, managing the acquisition to leading the team as a semi-autonomous unit inside Facebook, it was both hard and great." "I led all of Facebook’s developer products including early efforts to build a developer platform in Messenger. It was a big change. Product-market fit and scale trump all. Facebook focuses on only a few important things and re-evaluates methodically -which is a huge advantage."

Has backed 19 unicorns ex-Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses

Miles' investments include Segment (acquired by Twilio for $3.2B), Benchling, and Airtable — each of which he invested before they had 30 employees. Prior to Benchmark, Miles was a GP at Thrive Capital.

After career exits like Elastic, Twitter and Yelp, Peter Fenton is now the longest-serving full-time partner at venture capital firm Benchmark. The trained helicopter pilot more recently joined the boards of Brazil-based mobile game maker Wildlife Studios, fintech startup Digits and open-source robotic process automation provider Robocorp.

Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO at Mercury. Prior to founding Mercury, Immad was the CEO and co-founder at Heyzap, a mobile developer tools company, which sold for $45m in 2016. He is an active investor in Silicon Valley and has invested in 100+ seed-stage startups including Airtable, Substack, and Rappi.

He’s a hustling entrepreneur at heart and has been running businesses since he was a kid. At nine years old, he started his first job, a paper route for Waterville Morning Sentinel newspaper in Maine. From there he went on to found Thriller Designs in 5th grade and Sounds Unlimited, a mobile DJ service, in 6th grade, where he DJ’d for 10yrs.  After graduating from MIT and working at Oracle for one year, he co-founded Spinner, the 1st internet radio service, in 1995 (acquired by AOL for $320 million in 1999) and Crackle, an internet video platform, in 2004 (acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006). 

Co-founder and Managing Director of Climactic VC, and a Co-Founder of Freestyle.

Max Gazor joined CRV in 2011 and brings deep enterprise domain experience spanning M&A, strategy and business development. Prior to CRV, Max led acquisitions and investments across enterprise and emerging technologies for Cisco’s Corporate Development team. Before Cisco, Max was responsible for business development within Oracle's Server Technologies division.

Jeffrey is an entertainment industry executive and entrepreneur, who throughout his career has repeatedly reshaped the media landscape. He led WndrCo’s investments in Airtable, Frame.io, Quibi, Vise, Placer.ai, NexHealth, Deel, and ID.me.

Sujay is one of Silicon Valley’s leading business innovators, and oversees WndrCo’s investment and operating activities. He makes Ventures and Growth investments, and creates companies through Venture Buyouts. He serves as Chairman of Aura, Twingate, and Super Unlimited, and led WndrCo’s investments in Figma, 1Password, Databricks, Pango, Pilot, Rally, Zagat / The Infatuation, and other great companies.

ChenLi is one of Silicon Valley’s innovative leaders in building and scaling software businesses. Prior to joining WndrCo as a General Partner, he founded and led Dropbox’s business operations team and was a pioneer in building a freemium, product-led growth engine. ChenLi focuses on Ventures and Growth investments, and in creating companies through Venture Buyouts. He led WndrCo’s investments in Aura, Pango, Webflow, Modern Treasury, Mux, Pilot, Material Security, Bubble, Gem, and other great companies.

Based in Silicon Valley, Brennan brings 20 years of experience building technology businesses and scaling global teams.

As a partner in Frontline Growth, Brennan is focused on helping growth stages companies expand into Europe. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at Google, where he held multiple go-to-market leadership roles in the US and EMEA, building teams across both the Cloud and Ads businesses.