These are the Top Venture Capital Companies in San Francisco (2021)

3 years ago

This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Venture Capital companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Venture Capital industry, but are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top San Francisco Venture Capital Companies

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

CircleUp

CircleUp

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CircleUp is the investment platform providing capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights & Connections team – all powered by Helio, CircleUp’s proprietary machine learning platform.

Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success.. .

SignalFire

SignalFire

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SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study, development, and iteration on how to best fuel today’s entrepreneur. Their distributed network approach gives access to some of the world’s best entrepreneurs, product, and engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry, provided by a centralized team of world class investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, Bessemer, KPCB, Google, and Yahoo.

They have developed a first of its kind centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational and community events. They invest in leaders with an uncommon passion and perspective for leveraging data and technology solutions to upend substantial markets..

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Owl Ventures

Owl Ventures

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Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies. The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning.

Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies. The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management..

ACME Capital

ACME Capital

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ACME Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms. Its purpose is to support those founders who choose to take their capital.

The firm was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .

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1 Click SPVs, Fund & SPACs.

Riviera

Riviera

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[Riviera](http://rivierapartners.com) is a search and recruiting firm providing tech-enabled services to startups seeking top engineering talent. The company uses a blend of internally developed data insights, proprietary technology, and recruiter expertise to provide clients with the right outcomes in the most efficient manner possible.

Riviera has developed a unique “man + machine” approach that aggregates readily available external data and fuses it with internally gathered information, which recruiters can then use to derive meaningful insights about people and companies. Utilizing the scoring algorithms of Sutro, a proprietary operating system, Rivera can quickly identify optimal matches between candidates and clients.

Recognized by venture capitalists, tech companies and the media as a top search and recruiting firm in the Bay Area, Riviera provides the reach and relationships of a large search organization with the feel of a specialized, boutique provider. Industry veterans Michael A.

Morell and Ali Behnam founded the firm in 2002.. .

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Crunchbase

Crunchbase

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Crunchbase is a platform for finding business information about private and public companies. Crunchbase information includes investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers and acquisitions, news, and industry trends.

Originally built to track startups, the Crunchbase website contains information on public and private companies on a global scale. Crunchbase sources its data in four ways: the venture program, machine learning, an in-house data team, and the Crunchbase community.

Members of the public can submit information to the Crunchbase database. These submissions are subject to registration, social validation, and are often reviewed by a moderator..

Multis

Multis

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Multis provides financial services for companies holding euros, dollars, and cryptocurrencies. We are building the best crypto wallet designed for businesses who need to scale, move fast, make the most of their crypto and fiat currencies.

We’re helping these companies embrace cryptocurrencies and shape a global and borderless economy. We’re a founding team of happy and passionate crypto-dreamers: Thibaut (CEO) and Théo (CTO), with backing from world-class US and European investors like Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures and eFounders.

The company is incorporated in San Francisco but we’re working from Paris and Europe for now.. .

Volt Capital

Volt Capital

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Token Daily Capital is a research and community driven crypto fund.

Proseeder Technologies

Proseeder Technologies

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ProSeeder’s technology is privately labeled and easily configurable for corporations to manage and report on initiatives, acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and other corporate development activities. Its platform empowers corporations with adaptive tools for collaboration, diligence, and execution; quantifying strategic ROI of investments & partnerships that supercharge corporations’ efforts to innovate iteratively.

It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .

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SuRo Capital

SuRo Capital

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SuRo Capital (Nasdaq: SSSS, formerly known as GSV Capital) is a publicly-traded fund that seeks to invest in high-growth, venture-backed private companies. The firm primarily seeks to invest in social mobile, sustainability, cloud computing, big data, marketplaces, and education sectors.

It also seeks to create a portfolio of high-growth emerging private companies through a repeatable and disciplined investment approach, as well as to provide investors with access to such companies through its publicly traded common stock. SuRo Capital was established in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..

8 Decimal Capital

8 Decimal Capital

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8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD.

Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects that address security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies..

S28 Capital

S28 Capital

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S28 Capital is an early-stage venture fund with $170M under management. We’re a team of founders and early startup employees.

The investing team helped build companies such as PagerDuty and Playdom and also invested in companies such as Zoom and Coupang. Some of our investments include Plangrid, Mattermost, Rippling, Reflektive, Social Construct, and Perpetua..

LAUNCH

LAUNCH

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Our mission: To support founders & inspire innovation.

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Heroku

Heroku

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Heroku is a multi-language cloud application platform that enables developers to deploy, scale, and manage their applications without the need for servers or administration. It supports languages such as [Ruby](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ruby), [Java](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/java), Node.js, Clojure, Python, PHP, Perl, and Scala.

Applications that are run from the in-house server utilize the Heroku DNS server to direct to the application domain. Each of the application containers or “dynos” are spread across a “dyno grid” that consists of several servers.

Heroku was founded by [James Lindenbaum](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/james-lindenbaum) and [Adam Wiggins](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/adam-wiggins) in July 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. The company was acquired by [Salesforce](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/salesforce) in 2011 but operates independently from their office in San Francisco..

Turn/River Capital

Turn/River Capital

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At Turn/River, we believe the new breed of technology and SaaS companies we see today — capital efficient, data-driven, high velocity — requires a new kind of investor. Turn/River was purpose-built for these companies, combining flexible capital with an incredibly deep operational team that helps founders and managers impact their businesses.

This unique operational team is the core of our strategy. Turn/River combines an internal growth-focused agency comprised of SEO, SEM, go-to-market, and recruiting experts with a frontline team that can provide Sales Directors as a Service, Marketing Directors as a Service, and Customer Success Directors as a Service to implement best practices and scale operations as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Turn/River is focused on helping these companies across many formats, whether they be founder-driven, bootstrapped businesses, overlooked divisions of larger companies, or formerly venture-funded companies looking for a new direction. We can help buy out these businesses or spin out these divisions, as well as provide liquidity for founders or former owners and growth capital for acceleration or acquisitions..

Fractionality.com

Fractionality.com

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We welcome both early-stage companies and experienced entrepreneurs to join us as our mission in life is to support and improve upon your vision and get you to achieve your company goals. We have helped generate over $2 billion in revenue, creating strategies, identifying new opportunities, and opening new markets that target and garner result in working with some of the coolest companies on the planet.

We are experienced entrepreneurs who know how to innovate and help you drive your company’s revenue and business development efforts both domestically and internationally.. .

Wave Capital

Wave Capital

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Wave is a venture firm that specializes in marketplaces.

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HabitRPG

HabitRPG

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HabitRPG is game (web and mobile) which helps you build real life habits. Level up as you achieve your goals, lose HP as you fail, earn money to buy weapons and armor, compete with your friends in an accountability partnership.

We target two markets: (a) consumers, using a Free-to-play model; (b) customers within preventative health care (and more markets later).. .

Builders VC

Builders VC

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Builders VC is a venture capital firm, helping founders modernize antiquated industries.

NightDragon Security

NightDragon Security

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NightDragon Security is a cybersecurity-focused VC firm led by Dave DeWalt.

SmartHub

SmartHub

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SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments. Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rights protection till exit.

Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.. .

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Workday Ventures

Workday Ventures

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Workday Ventures works with early-stage companies to improve the next generation of enterprise software.

Bragiel Brothers

Bragiel Brothers

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Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds.

Orrick

Orrick

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Orrick’s global Emerging Companies Group provides advice on tactical approaches to companies from incubation to their strategic exit and future growth opportunities. Their lawyers, who work intimately with founders in technology, are experts in the emerging space.

Orrick’s TOTAL ACCESS Event Series provides entrepreneurs business, tactical and legal education through complimentary breakfast panels and lunch seminars.. .

Thayer Ventures

Thayer Ventures

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Thayer Ventures (Thayer) invests in technology companies with a focus on the travel industry. This industry represent more than $10 trillion in annual global economic activity, is thriving with entrepreneurial activity due to disruptive changes within the sector that began more than a decade ago.

Recent consumer trends have accelerated this disruption for operators across the travel world, creating unprecedented opportunities for technology providers to make significant inroads into what was previously a closed market. Additionally, travel industry suppliers are dealing with massive shifts in travel planning, organizing and booking driven by the Internet and social media platforms.

As a result, the travel industry is being forced to rapidly deploy new technologies in order to exploit the opportunities created by this shifting consumer behavior. The combination of these factors has created a unique environment for innovative technology providers to make significant inroads into this massive, growing, and evolving marketplace..

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Digital Finance Group

Digital Finance Group

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Founded in Silicon Valley (2015), Digital Finance Group is headquartered in Singapore and focuses on cryptocurrencies, digital assets and blockchain technology, with a preference for first-class blockchain projects in the United States. Since 2017, DFG accelerated its internationalization by executing its Singapore-centered global market strategy and has successfully become a globally operated company with over 200 employees.

DFG is managing over $550M A.U.M. to date, among which, the size of primary market assets is over 300 million USD, and secondary market assets is over 250 million USD.

DFG’s portfolio includes early investments such as Bloq, Brave Browser, Ledger X and Circle among others. This group has grown to become part of the world’s top blockchain projects, representing the latest developments in blockchain infrastructures, regulated exchanges, ecosystem development and other branch areas.

DFG’s forward-looking venture vision has enabled significant returns on investment for DFG and its partners.. .

gumi Cryptos Capital

gumi Cryptos Capital

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gumi Cryptos is the blockchain/crypto venture fund launched by gumi Inc. gumi Cryptos is dedicated to invest in promising cryptocurrency and blockchain technology companies globally, and offers its portfolio companies a strategic partner with unique access to the Japan cryptocurrency market through its network of investors and management board.

Although gumi Inc. is a mobile game company, gumi Cryptos Capital invests broadly across blockchain and crypto assets focusing on early pre-seed and seed stage venture equity and convertible instruments..

Midas League

Midas League

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Midas League is a technology platform that connects family offices with venture capital funds for co-investments.

Axite Labs

Axite Labs

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Axite Labs is a company that aims of making scientific research more accessible.

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Bloomberg Beta

Bloomberg Beta

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Bloomberg Beta is an early stage venture capital firm with $150M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.

We run our fund in unorthodox ways to build trust with founders: We’re a corporate-backed fund that invests to make money. We experiment with the limits of transparency — instead of a normal website, we open sourced our entire operating manual.

We measure success by our founders’ customer service ratings of us. Bloomberg Beta has an unconventional investing model where anyone on the team can say yes to a deal.

The investing partnership has an equal male-to-female ratio. Read our full internal operating manual here: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual.

SeaX Ventures

SeaX Ventures

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SeaX – Southeast Asia Exponential Ventures is a venture capital firm investing globally in early-stage companies with game-changing “exponential” technologies. We deliver a unique access to a highly selective group of innovative companies from around the globe.

We combine our strong entrepreneurial, investing, and scientific background with extensive professional networks across Asia and the US to identify the best investment opportunities. Most importantly, we aim to achieve both financial returns and strategic advantages for our investors.

Some of the key highlights – Access: We provides our investors access to deal flows globally with a primary focus in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

– Accelerate: Our fund leverages RISE’s platforms and networks which has over 1000+ startups alumni across Asia and several hundred corporate partners to help startups scale quickly. – Advantage: Our investors are top multinational corporations and family offices, collectively we can become the network of entrepreneurs, business partners, and co-investors..

GamesBeat

GamesBeat

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GamesBeat is the gaming division of VentureBeat

Anduin

Anduin

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Anduin brings transparency and trust to private market transactions and board actions to help all parties better understand and execute fair outcomes. The workflow platform creates efficiencies for a number of processes such as due diligence, milestone reporting, auditing, and deal negotiation.

By saving everybody time and preventing mistakes, Anduin is the trusted source of information about transactions which all parties can understand and rely on.. .

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FundPaaS

FundPaaS

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FundPaaS provides technology solutions for crowdfunding. Its underlying technology includes a set of APIs that support crowdfunding portals and alternative lending sites with a focus on investor onboarding, money transfers to raise or repay capital, and 3rd party escrow integration with banks.

FundPaaS enables portal operators to control their user experience by providing flexibility and reducing friction in the investment process through 5 different alternatives to perform ID verification and accreditation. It was launched in 2015 by Amilcar Chavarria and Brian Castro.

FundPaaS is operated from San Francisco, California.. .

Alpha Bridge Ventures

Alpha Bridge Ventures

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Alpha Bridge Ventures invests in post seed stage companies and the personal development of their founders.

Momentum Cyber

Momentum Cyber

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Momentum Cyber is the premier trusted advisor to the cybersecurity industry providing bespoke high-impact advice combined with tailored, senior-level access. The firm was founded by world-class operators and advisors and caters to the unique needs of both earlier stage Founders, CEOs, & Boards as well as the complexity of later stage & public companies throughout their lifecycle – Incubation to Exit.

Headquartered in San Francisco with operations globally, the founding team has closed over 250 transactions totaling over $250 billion in value. Momentum Cybersecurity Group, LLC conducts its M&A advisory services as an M&A Broker as defined by the SEC..

Informed.IQ

Informed.IQ

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Informed is a developer of a consumer auto financing platform designed to collect and analyze loan documents.

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Angelfund.ai

Angelfund.ai

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The warm intro just got smarter.

Oakhouse Partners

Oakhouse Partners

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Oakhouse Partners invests in companies that use breakthrough technologies to radically improve millions of lives.

Golub Capital

Golub Capital

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Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and credit asset manager, with over $35 billion of capital under management. We specialize in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to middle market companies backed by private equity sponsors.

The firm’s credit expertise also forms the foundation of our Late Stage Lending business and our Broadly Syndicated Loan investment program. Across our activities, Golub Capital nurtures long-term, win-win partnerships that inspire repeat business from our private equity sponsor clients and investors.

Founded over 25 years ago, Golub Capital today has over 500 employees and lending offices located in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and London, and focuses on three business lines: • Middle Market Lending: Offering senior, one-stop and second lien loans to U.S. middle market companies • Late Stage Lending: Providing flexible debt for fast-growing tech companies to expand without further equity dilution • Broadly Syndicated Loans: Curating a portfolio of liquid senior secured loans to larger enterprises For more information, please visit golubcapital.com..

ChinaRock Capital Management

ChinaRock Capital Management

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ChinaRock Capital Management is a global investment management firm that invests in technology companies in Silicon Valley and China. It is both US SEC-registered and Hong Kong SFC-licensed, with headquarters in San Francisco and regional offices in Palo Alto, Hong Kong, and Hangzhou.

ChinaRock Capital Management aims to deliver consistent risk-adjusted returns throughout the economic cycle while focusing on capital preservation. The company’s investment process combines top-down and bottom-up analyses to identify value-oriented and event-driven opportunities, supported by comprehensive risk management safeguards and an institutional-quality infrastructure.

It was founded in 2006 by Chun Ding.. .

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B37 Ventures

B37 Ventures

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B37 Ventures is a venture capital firm that derives returns from a proprietary platform in which startups and multinational corporations exchange innovation and scale. The firm is able to validate product-market fit and curate scalability through the global reach of our industry-diverse corporate investors.

B37 Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .

West

West

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West is a venture studio that specializes in the end-to-end process of designing, building, and launching purpose-driven brands. It enables companies to define and defend their market opportunity with a brand people love.

The company’s brand studio creates work to deliver results for startups for a combination of fees and equity and its venture fund selectively invests in our studio clients. West Ventures was established in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..

MouseBelt

MouseBelt

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When other accelerators expect you to become experts in development, marketing, and business development during their program, we have an internal team to help you hands-on. Creating a unique full-service blockchain startup accelerator model, where we go beyond cash investments.

When you need development, we have developers. When you need partnerships and real-world adoption, our business development specialists will land those partnerships for you.

When you need marketing, our in-house experts will handle it for you. Our unique model attracted great companies for our first batch, classOne.

Companies in classOne: Pledgecamp Stardust Co-Lab ReviewChain. .

AFN

AFN

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AFN is a digital publication covering investment and entrepreneurship in foodtech and agtech.

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Rogue Capital

Rogue Capital

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Rogue Capital invests in creative entrepreneurs that produce an enduring, growing, accomplished and lasting innovation.

HSBC Venture Capital Coverage Group

HSBC Venture Capital Coverage Group

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Oversees relationships with the venture capital community and connects their portfolio companies to the right people at HSBC.

VSC

VSC

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We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.

Mind The Bridge

Mind The Bridge

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Mind the Bridge is a global organization that provides Innovation advisory services for corporates and startups. Based in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, London, Italy and Spain, since 2007 they have been working as an international bridge at the intersection between Startups and Corporations.

MTB was established in 2007 by then Googler, Marco Marinucci. Marco now serves as the company’s CEO with Italian university Professor Alberto Onetti as its chairman.

They believe there is societal value in embracing the principles of entrepreneurship as a key accelerator of economies.. .

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Countsy

Countsy

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Countsy provides Accounting and HR as a service to venture-backed startups. By the unique combination of on-demand CFOs and streamlined technologies, it free its clients from back-office management and empower them to focus on what matters most, delighting customer, perfecting solutions, and accelerating growth.

From payroll to board reporting, they get the support they need to be transaction-ready. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..

SV Venture Group (Silicon Valley Venture Group)

SV Venture Group (Silicon Valley Venture Group)

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Venture group is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley company for early stage investment and business development

Kindred Partners

Kindred Partners

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Focused solely on recruiting the best executives into high-growth technology companies.

Coefficient Ventures

Coefficient Ventures

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Coefficient Ventures is an asset management firm that specializes in blockchain technology investments.

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Just Business

Just Business

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It is a business of social change, invest in and incubate profitable and forward-thinking ventures dedicated to positive impact in world.

Apertu Capital

Apertu Capital

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Early stage fund, focused on investing in founders starting up from the open source community. General partners believe that the next $1T of value in SaaS growth will be companies based on open source software.

Firm pledges part of partners’ own returns to funding contributors to open source. This program includes inviting new contributors from populations currently underrepresented in tech professions..

DEMO

DEMO

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Produced by IDG, the DEMO conferences in the United States, China, Brazil, Russia and Vietnam focus on emerging technologies and new product innovations. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launchpad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Salesforce, Webex, Tivo ,VMware and Fusion-io and thousands of others, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters.

The DEMO Scholarship Partner Program, subsidized by corporate sponsorships, offers multiple scholarship opportunities to ensure that deserving entrepreneurs have the chance to introduce cutting edge technology products at DEMO that might have otherwise gone undiscovered.. .

V Ventures

V Ventures

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Venture Capital

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Banking CIO Outlook

Banking CIO Outlook

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Spearheading the Technology Revolution in Banking Industry | Banking Technology Magazine | Banking CIO Outlook

Pitchbrite

Pitchbrite

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Pitchbrite connects entrepreneurs with investors. Building a business is hard enough.

We believe the fundraising process should be easier, and less clouded with mystery. We’ve started at the top of the funnel, and set out to answer the question: “Which investors are right for you?” Having sat on the investor side of the table for many years, we heard a variant of that question over and over from entrepreneurs: “Who else should we talk with?” or “Ok, if you’re not a fit, what VC firms might be?” Pitchbrite uses a proprietary recommendation engine to provide you with VC matches, and uncovers social connections to provide you with intros..

Rentobo

Rentobo

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Rentobo is a new tool built for landlords, managers, and agents of all sizes to simplify the process of finding and signing a new tenant for your rental property. Enter your listing details once at Rentobo and we will help you promote your property across major rental search sites.

Rentobo organizes rental applications, credit scores, and social networks into an easy to use tenant profile – everything you need to make a decision. Tenants use Rentobo to sign their lease and submit their deposit electronically.

Combined with online applications you can stop pushing paper. For more information, please visit us at: http://www.rentobo.com.

Golden Gate CFO

Golden Gate CFO

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The single-source, scalable, Finance, Accounting, Tax, HR, and CFO Strategy solution for Startups. Our mission at Golden Gate CFO is to be your go-to time saver and expert resource.

We know at the heart of every founder or executive’s drive is a desire to build an incredible company with a killer product and a truly effective way to get the word out to the world at large. What we also know is that to truly be able to focus on the larger issues of strategy, vision, growth, and execution, the founder or executive needs to remove the mundane daily time-sinks and varied topics that are unfamiliar to the company.

That’s where Golden Gate CFO comes in. Golden Gate CFO has a deep knowledge of Finance and Accounting to support the complicated and technical aspects of a growing company, yet has the bandwidth and efficiency to save time by managing the day-to-day bookkeeping, cash management, accounting, and reporting.

Golden Gate CFO removes the tedious tasks and hours of intense research that bog down a growing and progressing company. Get back to what you do best, let Scale CFO do what we do best!.

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Marketplace Funds

Marketplace Funds

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Venture Capital investor focused on Fintech & Healthcare

Stripe Capital

Stripe Capital

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Businesses on Stripe rank access to capital as their biggest obstacle to growth. Traditional lenders aren’t set up to serve internet businesses, typically requiring lengthy applications, complex collateral obligations, and fixed payment schedules.

They built Stripe Capital to cut through the red tape. Their goal is to provide access to fast, flexible financing that helps online businesses invest in growth..

Aditum Bio

Aditum Bio

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Aditum Bio is an investment fund that specializes in acquiring and developing pharmaceutical assets. It gives patients access to medicines that may not otherwise be developed.

Aditum Bio was founded on 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .

HBCU.vc

HBCU.vc

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HBCU.vc is a not-for-profit organization connecting and equipping the next generation of black and brown tech innovators and investors. Our Student Investor Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for students attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to earn real-world experience in tech and venture capital.

Student Investors are paired with investment partners and help to identify startups seeking funding. This unique program allows students to gain the experience they need to jumpstart their career AND make a difference in their community by supporting their local entrepreneurs..

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StrictlyVC

StrictlyVC

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StrictlyVC is a media business focused on providing daily intelligence to venture capitalists and the much wider community of entrepreneurs, angel investors, hedge fund managers, bankers, attorneys and other professionals who work with them. The San Francisco-based organization publishes a free, daily e-mail newsletter; it also hosts intimate quarterly events that feature sought-after investors and entrepreneurs as part of its “Insider” series.

StrictlyVC was founded by [Connie Loizos](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/connie-loizos).. .

Galaxy Capital Partners

Galaxy Capital Partners

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Galaxy Capital Partners (GCP), a global investment management company focused on energy infrastructure and digital assets.

The Vault

The Vault

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The VAULT is more than just a coworking space. They are an innovative startup ecosystem where membership offers your venture the necessary support to thrive.

They deliver the infrastructure, programming, and a collaborative community to jump start the journey to success. At The VAULT, tech startups and creative agencies are provided with dedicated workspace situated within a supportive community.

Membership offers your team opportunities for collaboration, socialization, education, and development long term.. .

Newport Board Group

Newport Board Group

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A professional service advisory firm, Newport Board Group offers solutions for private equity firms, emerging growth companies, and international strategy and operation. Its extensive experience spans across a variety of business areas such as operations, exit strategies, and capital markets.

Newport’s clientele consists of middle market, emerging growth, and private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Solutions and services provided by the company assist clients in addressing a wide range of business needs and challenges that concern the business “No Man’s Land,” market segments, and international affairs.

Middle market companies can receive assistance with growth issues such as debt covenant compliance, and solutions for creating value and building better capital returns. For emerging companies, Newport offers guidance through the adolescent stage of business growth and helps them prepare for upcoming transactions and executive decisions.

Newport Board Group’s services extend to both national and international clients involved in the industries of healthcare, energy, technology, banking, and manufacturing. Through its network of international CEOs, senior executives, and board chairs, the company strives to offer global expertise and competitive advantages..

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is a banking firm providing credit products, services, and housing finance services.

CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund

CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund

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CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund invests in clean energy companies and is a San Francisco-based seed- and early-stage venture capital fund.

Indaba Capital Management

Indaba Capital Management

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Indaba Capital Management identifies opportunities to make an investment through the thorough due diligence of the company’s securities.

Orange Silicon Valley

Orange Silicon Valley

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Orange Silicon Valley (OSV) is the Bay Area division of Orange, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators, serving 236 million customers worldwide. They actively participate in the disruptive innovations changing the way they communicate, which is the core business of Orange in 220 countries.

They contribute to, and engage with, the Silicon Valley ecosystem in a variety of ways, whether through individual programs like their Orange Fab accelerator, Orange GigaStudio, Orange Quants Marketing Studio, and more.. .

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The Data Guild

The Data Guild

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The Data Guild is a venture studio based in San Francisco, California. They help to bring data-driven products to market – whether via spinouts from the Guild itself, by working in the trenches alongside portfolio company teams, or in concert with strategic partners.

They work in healthcare, life sciences, renewable energy, and climate change – complex sectors whose needs are not well-served by the existing venture ecosystem, and in which finding innovative solutions and bringing them to market is crucial for the health and sustainability of their planet and society.. .

PEAK PERFORMANCE Group of Companies

PEAK PERFORMANCE Group of Companies

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PEAK PERFORMANCE Group of Companies consists of three divisions (The International Institute for Peak Performance, Peak Performance Finance and Peak Performance Global Equity) whose activities range from encouraging personal growth to hugely beneficial profit and tax strategies and high-performing investment management, PEAK PERFORMANCE Group of Companies helps people position themselves for securing extreme wealth on a long-term basis and helps entrepreneurs take their business to the next level. Its client base of accredited investors benefit from private equity and hedge funds that outperform market indices on a regular basis.

With operations based in San Francisco, London and Latin America, PEAK PERFORMANCE Group of Companies has a global reach.. .

Pirate Fund

Pirate Fund

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A founders-first company & A thesis-driven venture firm.

Cloudkick

Cloudkick

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Cloudkick is a web-based control hub for cloud servers that offers its users with centralized server monitoring and management tools.

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Vaquero Capital

Vaquero Capital

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Leading investment banking advisory firm for private growth companies

PopShop

PopShop

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Customized talent solutions for startups and early stage companies everywhere.

New Mindfulness

New Mindfulness

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New Mindfulness is a San Francisco based futurist foundry that designs, funds, and launches iconic, paradigm-shifting consumer ventures focused on the future of self, social, or space. Such ventures target the mass consumer market, and each possess a pathway to $1B+ in revenue.

As a venture fund with a foundry model, New Mindfulness does not fund or incubate external companies, but rather expertly ideates, designs, and seeds new companies in-house. The foundry particularly specializes in incubating new consumer ventures 18+ months ahead of market, across a span of different industries, markets, and technologies such as wearables, AI, robotics, sustainability, medtech, XR, fashion, and future cities..

Transparent Collective

Transparent Collective

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Transparent Collective is a non-profit organization helping underrepresented founders access the growth resources and connections. The organization breaking down the barriers that acutely affect the success of minority founders at the early stages of their startups.

They connect investors to high-caliber entrepreneurs and build an ecosystem where underrepresented entrepreneurs flourish. Transparent Collective host events will feature some of the best and brightest minority entrepreneurs, who will pitch their startups.

Their events also include panel discussions by thought leaders in the tech space, opening and closing remarks by keynote speakers, and networking sessions. Transparent Collective’s mission is to educate and connect minority founders with the resources they need to succeed as tech entrepreneurs.

It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.. .

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Maxitech, Inc.

Maxitech, Inc.

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Maxitech Group is a San Francisco based Fintech accelerator backed by one of the top European financial institutions, Isbank. The Group fuels development in the financial services sector by bridging leading-edge technology and time-tested superior customer experience.

Maxitech Group scouts out, partners with, and invests in companies to bring innovative banking products to the global market, enhancing the commercial and consumer banking UX.. .

NueValue Capital

NueValue Capital

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At NueValue Capital, we help bring blockchain innovations to life. Through investment, advisory, discussion, and development, we’re committed to using this technology to drive humanity into an exciting new decentralized world.

Investments – Capital raising for blockchain companies and alternative investment vehicles for our investors. Over the past four years, we have invested in more than 60 initial coin offerings with a return of 48900% for our start-ups and our investors.

Advisory – Strategic solutions, tokenomics, advice, and direction for companies entering the token economy. Discussion – We help foster discussion and advancement through conferences, education, and professional development.

Development – Technical solutions, resources, and knowledge to support the development of blockchain technologies. Our team and network can successfully deploy smart contracts, and develop and improve blockchain applications..

Broadview Capital Partners

Broadview Capital Partners

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Broadview Capital Partner is a global M&A advisor focused on the information, communications and healthcare technology industries. The firm offers advice on merger and acquisition transactions, restructuring, and strategic private placements.

Broadview Capital Partner was founded by Stephen Bachmann in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California.. .

Opinno

Opinno

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Opinno is a open innovation network focused on growth stage technology ventures in web, mobile, clean tech and biotech. We are situated in the most innovative cities bringing together diverse, successful professionals to work with local communities of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and technology companies.

Opinno Social “Creating the entrepreneurial ecosystem” In every city, in every region, we join the local entrepreneurial community, generating impact through workshops and networking sessions, business plan competitions, trade missions and exchange programs. Opinno Incubation “Providing support services for your startup” Focus on innovation and get your startup services set up quickly.

Every startup needs office space and support services from accounting to human resources to legal services. We save your time with trusted service providers who are specialized in supporting global startups.

Opinno Ventures “Accelerating your global growth” Startups grow or die. Those who grow need to access international markets as soon as possible.

We join top startups worldwide and accelerate their path to global success using a powerful methodology: co-entrepreneurship. We’re not there to tell you what to do, we’ll work side-by-side with you..

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BigTray

BigTray

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BigTray was formed in October 1999 with funding from Sequoia Capital, the leading venture capital investors in Silicon Valley.

Equiam

Equiam

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Equiam is a dynamic firm that specializes in offering deeply researched and data-driven algorithms to make investment decisions.

Baker Street Advisors

Baker Street Advisors

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Baker Street Advisors is an investment management company that offers wealth management and comprehensive investment advisory solutions.

Matthews International Capital Management

Matthews International Capital Management

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Since 1991, Matthews International Capital Management has focused its efforts and expertise on investing in Asia. Matthews employs a bottom-up, fundamental investment philosophy, with a focus on long-term investment performance.

Matthews manages assets for individuals and institutions and our investment offerings provide a broad range of choices for building a global portfolio that includes exposure to Asia.. .

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Founders Embassy

Founders Embassy

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Founders Embassy is the world’s first accelerator designed exclusively to induct international & immigrant entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley

Teknos Associates

Teknos Associates

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Teknos Associates is an experienced valuation firm which serves emerging growth companies and their venture capital backers. Clients count on our financial expertise, knowledge of technology markets, and high standards to deliver relevant and timely valuation reports and fairness opinions.

Companies in information technology, life sciences, alternative energy and cleantech, and other rapidly moving markets face unique challenges. Their values can change quickly because of fast growth, competition, or market volatility.

Unlike most valuation firms, Teknos has deep knowledge of technology markets and a long record of working with high growth companies.. .

ATEL Capital Group

ATEL Capital Group

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ATEL Capital Group provides a wide array of financial solutions such as equipment leasing, asset-based lending, venture & asset management.

DO Venture Partners

DO Venture Partners

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DO Venture Partners is an investment firm.

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Sfventures LLC

Sfventures LLC

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a modern digital consultancy

Solar Power Investor

Solar Power Investor

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Bringing news, investment insights and opportunities to the solar and renewable energy industries. Solar Power Investor readers are influential market-movers who make million-dollar decisions every day.

The company services venture capital firms, family offices, individual investors, and private equity firms actively seeking off-market deal flow and solar companies looking for insight needed to navigate the capital markets with up-to-date detail on active investors, deal terms and where capital is being deployed.. .

Wetherby Asset Management

Wetherby Asset Management

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Wetherby Asset Management is an investment management company offering financial advice and wealth planning services.

Quarry

Quarry

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Quarry is a Venture Capital

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Theorem Ventures

Theorem Ventures

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Value-added seed and angel capital, with experienced advice at key inflection points: positioning, raising capital, connections, team building, bus dev, sales, messaging, marketing, communications, M&A / IPO. WHAT WE LOOK FOR – Significant market potential.

High conviction, high commitment founders. Core teammates who have proven they can execute.

Well-differentiated solutions with obvious appeal. Competitive advantage.

Solid plan. Good chemistry.

PORTFOLIO – Theorem portfolio companies include Delphix, Smule, Automatic, FundersClub, Visual.ly, Unified Social, Sokanu, Pixt, Trustpipe, Traackr, Chirpify, Raise.me, OfferUp and 915Labs. Exits include MP3.com, Sigaba, Atomic, ComContext, H30, Zui & Moonfruit.

Pagelever was acquired in 2013 for shares in Unified Social. GEOGRAPHICS – Theorem is focused on companies based in San Francisco & Silicon Valley.

Brooklands Capital Strategies

Brooklands Capital Strategies

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Brooklands Capital Strategies is a fundraising advisory partner for alternative asset managers and companies at all stages of growth.

4th & King

4th & King

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The world’s first Pitch Agency, focused exclusively on helping clients craft, design, & deliver amazing fundraising pitches.

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