Astranis

Backing entrepreneurs using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.

Obsessively pursuing the near frontier, where software, hardware, & wetware intersect.

$50M Fund investing in seed-stage companies that deploy technology to enhance planetary and human health by radically upending traditionally regulated industries.

Backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Soma Capital seeks to back brilliant, scrappy founders that are driven to push humanity forward.

Founded by Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.

Industry Ventures is an investment firm that makes venture capital investments and manages over $3.5 billion of institutional capital.

Global investment group specialized in venture capital and private equity founded in 2005.

Uncorrelated Ventures invests in infrastructure software

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

TriplePoint Capital offers leases and loans to finance companies' equipment or growth-capital needs.

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

Believes that iconic companies transcend boundaries: they can be built anywhere, by anyone, and in any corner of the economy, from curing rare diseases at scale to powering global payments for organizations of all sizes. They partner with founders around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious.

Partners with companies and founders trying to change the world, who want to upend paradigms, not just chase incremental progress. Over the past two decades, Lux has expanded from their New York City roots to Silicon Valley, and built a $4 billion AUM firm of more than 30 full-time professionals, with a wide spectrum of technical backgrounds and the versatility to invest at any stage.

Venture capital firm that backs up outlier founders at the earliest stages.

Garage Capital is an investment fund focusing on early-stage companies in the Waterloo area.

Cross-border early-stage venture connecting the resources and networks of the world’s most valuable and influential venture capital investment markets.

V1.VC are patient, long-term capital partners to ambitious founders. As current and former operators, their goal is to be the most aligned investor in a founder’s corner.

Harpoon is a seed focused venture capital firm. Their mission is to ensure American technological dominance for future generations. They invest in audacious founders building mission-critical capabilities across AI, deep tech, software infrastructure, and cybersecurity.

Ian Rountree founded Cantos Ventures in 2016, with a focus on next-generation tech related to climate science, biology, aerospace, and health. Formerly director of partnerships at SoFi.

Dreamer/Doer/Investor of 400+companies Forbes 30 under 30 VC Fortune China 40 under 40 Entrepreneur China 40 under 40 VC

Aashay works on all investment activity at Haystack, from identifying founders to helping portfolio companies post-investment. Prior to Haystack, Aashay was an undergraduate at Harvard, where he studied economics and history.

Zal is the solo partner at Refactor Capital, a seed-stage firm focused on climate, bio, and health investments. Previously, he helped launch the Bio Fund at a16z and prior to that, spent 10 years in product at Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania.

Martin was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016. He started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity. These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he created the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, leading to a new paradigm of network virtualization. While at Stanford he also cofounded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.

Wesley Chan is an early investor in five $10B+ Decacorns and 20+ $1B+ Unicorns, including Canva, Guild, Dialpad, & AngelList. He was first check into Flexport, Robinhood, Plaid, & Gusto. Founded Google Analytics and Google Voice during his 14 year career at Google. He also holds 17 patents for his work on building Google’s early Ads system.

Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.