Benchling

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

Byers Capital is an investment firm.

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Led by the founders of Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche). They prefer to invest alongside a lead VC check (and if there's no lead yet, they'll help the founder find one).

Altimeter is a leading technology-focused investment firm built by founders for founders. Their mission is to help visionary entrepreneurs build iconic companies, disrupt markets and improve lives through all stages of growth. Altimeter manages a variety of venture and public funds and serves as an expert long-term partner to companies as they enter the public markets.

46 year old VC firm with >$5bn AUM investing in innovation-driven companies.

Invests in products we love, people, crazy, dreams, design, details, brains, reality, unreality, reinvention, new markets, weird stuff, guts, independence, hustle, distinction, art, humanness, idealists, oddities, optimism, communities, creation, surprises, technologists with the heart of an artist, each other.

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.

Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline Growth is a late-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.

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.

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.

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

Elad Gil is an active angel investor and was the co-founder of Color Genomics and former vice president of Twitter.

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.”

Co-Founder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Was CEO of Color from 2013 to fall 2016. Investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Anchorage, Coinbase, dbt Labs, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Opendoor, OpenSea, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Retool, Samsara, Square, Stripe, TripActions. Previously, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company was co-founder and CEO of. MixerLabs ran GeoAPI, one of the early developer-centric platform infrastructure products.

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.

Eric led investments in enterprise software companies such as Confluent and Amplitude, both of which IPO'ed in 2021. He is also an investor and board member at Cerebras Systems, Benchling and Contentful, all of which have multi-billion-dollar valuations. Before joining Benchmark, he was cofounder and CEO of social web browser Rockmelt, which failed and was scooped up by Yahoo in 2013 for $70 million. Vishria, who graduated from Stanford at age 19, led the Series A round in monitoring startup Pixie Labs, which was acquired by publicly traded platform New Relic two months later.

Greg is a partner at Menlo Ventures, where he invests in teams trying to solve major problems in life science and healthcare, with a special interest in novel therapeutic platforms, digital health, and transformative technologies. Since joining in 2017, Greg has led Menlo’s investments in Clear Labs, Delfi Diagnostics, Encoded Therapeutics, Epiodyne, Genesis Therapeutics, H1 Insights, Ophelia Health, Particle Health, Pliant Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PLRX), Senti Biosciences, Scribe Therapeutics and Riva Health. He has also been involved in investments in Benchling, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and Cofactor Genomics.

Matt Murphy joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 where he focuses on multi-stage investments across mobile and cloud infrastructure technologies. Matt is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of AppDynamics, Drawbridge, Egnyte, Insidesales.com, InstartLogic, PernixData, Puppet Labs, SessionM, Shazam, andSimplivity. Previously, Matt was a Board Observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO), launched the iFund in ’08 (a collaborative initiative with Apple to build the defining applications on the iOS platform), and led KPCB’s investments in AutoNavi (Nasdaq: AMAP, 2010) and Aerohive Networks (Nasdaq: HIVE, 2014). Matt also served as a Director at Shopkick (acquired by SK Planet 2014), Pelago (acquired by Groupon in 2011), Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell in 2010), Dash Navigation (acquired by RIM in 2009) and Peakstream (acquired by Google in 2008).

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.

Will isn’t afraid to challenge tradition and forge his own path—both in venture and life. Growing up an avid gamer and athlete, he developed a sense of healthy competition that has followed him throughout his career. As a general partner at Spark, Will’s investing philosophy leads him to support ambitious, often first-time founders taking big swings at large markets.