Platform funds

Building a platform? Start with the funds with deep expertise and interest in the space. Start here.
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Platform funds

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Seed-stage investment firm committed to identifying, financing and developing early stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.
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Called First Round for a reason. Your first money in is one thing. But so are your first hires, your first product and your first customers. They've helped Notion, Roblox, Uber, Square, and 300 others tackle these firsts and more. First round is building the world’s best product for founders who are just getting started.
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Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
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Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.
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Invests in the brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life. Founded in 2005, True Ventures has already invested $3.8B across 350+ teams.

True Ventures will only enter on the initial round of capital but will have reserves and continue to follow on in their existing portfolio. They target 20% + ownership on the initial investment.
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Helps early-stage founders with the capital and tools they need to build ideas into category-defining companies.
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Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. They redefine what venture capital is capable of by prioritizing a new outcome: a more fair, just, and equitable society for low income communities and underrepresented communities of color.
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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.
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Invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer, crypto, and enterprise software companies across all stages.
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Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare
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Invests in scalable, high-growth technology companies with large addressable markets and strong competitive advantages.
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Invests in companies central to the technology industry and those on the edges of science, society, and culture.
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Specializes in early-stage investments in the Software, Consumer, and Fintech industries. Uses a rigorous experience-driven investment selection process to fund the best capital-light companies with a viable product, serving a large addressable market, and solving a known pain point
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Backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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$500 million seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.
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From 2008 - 2022 across six funds, Harrison Metal invested in early-stage technology companies on behalf of their limited partners: universities, charitable foundations, and pensioners' savings plans. Harrison Metal is led by Michael Dearing.
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With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.
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Steve Anderson's solo GP fund built to address the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists. Baseline invested in more than 100 companies, with founders and investors alike exiting profitably from over 50.
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We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and early stage venture investments
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First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.
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