Mux

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.

Led by investors including Chris Sacca, Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups.

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

Led by investors including Joe Montana, Liquid 2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments.

Enterprise-focused seed & early stage venture capital investment firm.

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

Believes that entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of progress, and they exist to help them realize their visions for a better world. Therefore, they invest in businesses with strong compounding moats, such as proprietary data, economies of scale and network effects.

Invests $500K checks in deep tech companies, and companies applying known technical solutions (SaaS platforms, marketplaces, mobile apps etc) to laggard markets.

Advancit Capital focuses on early-stage companies at the intersection of media, entertainment, and technology.

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

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.

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

Invests in specialized teams solving hard engineering problems. 

Greg has worked closely with and invested in over 80 seed stage companies, counting five companies that achieved +$1B valuations (Oculus, Flexport, Anduril, Mux, and Rec Room). He invests internationally and leverages his network to help unlock new partnership and funding opportunities Previously, Greg founded and ran a restaurant chain before moving into technology as a marketing executive at Scaleform (acq. 2011), Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), and Glassdoor (acq. 2018)

James established Heavybit as the only fund focused solely on developer company go-to-market. 

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

"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."

Daniel first joined Accel in 2010. Dan re-joined Accel after spending time at Dropbox, where he worked on the platform team. He helped open the platform to third-party developers and launched and managed many of the company’s developer-facing initiatives. Earlier, Dan co-founded Chartio, a Y Combinator-backed (S10) startup in the data visualization space, and prior to Chartio, worked on CrunchBase at TechCrunch.

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.

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

She was previously a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where she worked on numerous cloud and SaaS investments. Prior to BVP, she was an investor at JMI Equity and an investment banker at both Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. Kristina holds a B.A. in Operations Research and Management Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a founding member of All Raise

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.

Focuses on investments in frontier tech, logistics, marketplaces & consumer. Seth led Susa's investments in Flexport, Periscope Data and Expanse. Also served as the VP of Strategic Marketing for The Richemont Group, a publicly traded company (CFR:VX) which owns brands and e-commerce sites Cartier, Net-A-Porter.com, Mr. Porter, Montblanc, and Chloe. Seth graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor's degrees in Business and Finance.