Deel

Accelerator, mentorship community, and VC fund led by Ali Partovi.

We manage funds that invest in the world's most promising companies with disruptive ideas and great return potential.

Multi-stage venture fund led by Laurene Powell Jobs and focused on accelerating the growth of companies positively impacting the world

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).

Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.

Invests in early-stage founders with product development, community building, and GTM Strategy.

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.

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.

Invests in hackers who are changing the world.

Incisive Ventures Fund 1 is a global pre-seed fund investing in technology companies that reduce friction at scale. IV tends to do a lot of health care, supply chain, fintech, and legacy industries, especially vertical market software and middleware.

They have specific questions and two meetings to come to a decision.

Incisive specializes in connecting pre-seed companies to follow on financing. They have proprietary fundraising software that helps CEOS with warm intros at scale. 74% of our pressed investments have received follow on financing which is 2.5X the industry average.

Micro VC fund investing in US and Israeli Pre-seed and Seed Tech Startups disrupting industries through use of Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Firebolt Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage and seed-stage investments.

The first VC firm designed for the new era of builders & creators.

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

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

Nat Friedman is the former CEO of GitHub. He has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years

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

Aneel works closely also with his father Vivek Ranadive who founded Tibco Software ($4.3 billion exit to Vista Equity).

Started Worklife with the vision of investing in companies that make work more flexible, creative, and human

Justin Mateen is a serial seed investor: He’s backed over 120 startups, including the fintech Brex, which announced in January that it reached decacorn status at a $12.3 billion valuation. He is, perhaps, best known as the cofounder of Tinder (although he stepped down as the chief marketing officer of Tinder in 2014). But before he helped build the world’s most popular online dating app, Mateen was already an angel investor, using his own money to back promising startups. In 2009, while Mateen was working on a social network for celebrities, he placed an early bet on the ride-hailing company Lyft. It went public at a valuation of $24 billion a decade later. Recently he backed Deel which landed a $5.5 billion valuation in 2021. And his investing firm, Jam Fund, raised about $300 million from investors for its second fund last year.

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.

One of Mark Zuckerberg’s first outside hires for Facebook in 2005. Also founded the customer-data platform Radius and stayed on as its CEO for about seven years.

Before becoming an angel investor, Lachy was an early Stripe employee (#30), joining the company right out of high school. Ultimately became Head of Stripe Issuing, and previously led several product teams responsible for Stripe’s core payments, global expansion, and enterprise users as well as Stripe’s global business development and operations teams.

A tech founder, builder, and investor. He’s written a national bestselling book, Without Their Permission, and co-founded initialized capital and Reddit. In 2020, Alexis founded Seven Seven Six, a new software-enabled venture firm focused on people, culture, and community.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business. Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

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.

Jamin is a partner at Altimeter Capital.

Ryan started his professional career as a product manager in the gaming industry. His fascination with technology and behavioral psychology led him to help write Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Inspired by his curiosity and a desire to support early stage makers and founders, he founded Product Hunt in 2013. The company raised capital from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and others before joining AngelList. Shortly after the acquisition, he started Weekend Fund.

ex-product at TrueLayer, and ex-analyst at Stripe

Prior to joining a16z, Anish held multiple roles at Credit Karma including the General Manager of Core Product and General Manager of U.S. Card, which he helped scale to over 100MM members and nearly $1B in 2019 revenue. Anish joined Credit Karma in 2015 via the acquisition of Snowball, a notifications startup he founded a year earlier. Prior to creating Snowball, Anish founded SocialDeck, a social-gaming company that was acquired by Google in 2010. He went on to lead various mobile product efforts as well as invest at Google Ventures.

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.

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.

At Spark, Yasmin is a student of go-to-market and believes it separates good companies from great companies. She partners with founders after they hit product market fit on their journey to scale.