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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.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.

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

Founded by many notable investors including Mary Meeker, Bond supports visionary founders throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth

Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk

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

SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.

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

Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV originated as an independent venture capital firm for innovative founders. With Alphabet as their sole limited partner, they focus all our energy on meeting and supporting founders at the earliest stages of company-building.

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

IVP grows breakout companies into enduring market leaders.

They are engaged VC partners, but their guidance is focused on when and where it counts. It’s about expertise in moments that matter, answering your call as a counselor and confidant. It’s about bolstering the functions that make or break a business to ensure we make yours a success. It’s about being your compass on the winding path to market leadership. And about celebrating the milestones along the way.

While IVP's investment track record is four decades strong, their focus is on the horizon. From emerging to enduring market leadership, they look out so you can look ahead. Undaunted.

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.

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.

"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."

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

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.