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Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health and consumer Internet. The firm and its partners have been early backers of some of the most impactful companies of the past decade, including Airbnb, Facebook, Palantir and SpaceX. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference. Formed in 2005, the firm has more than $3 billion in aggregate capital under management.
Industry Ventures is a leading investment firm that focuses on venture capital. The firm has three investment strategies: secondary investments, primary fund of funds investments and direct co-investments. Founded in 2000, the firm manages over $3 billion of institutional capital and is headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Washington, D.C.
Great entrepreneurs at the early revenue stage need more than capital to accelerate their business. NextWorld Capital leads Series A and B rounds and then helps entrepreneurs accelerate growth with our Global Enterprise Platform— designed to bring together the best enterprise startups and 100+ of the largest global corporates as customers and partners. NextWorld’s investments include Zuora (ZUO), Gong.io, DataStax, Copper, BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo), and DynamicOps (acquired by VMware). NextWorld is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London and Paris. www.nextworldcap.com
The first venture fund dedicated to digital health We want to make healthcare massively better for every human being. Join us and build something useful. Get the most important digital health news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to the Rock Weekly. https://rockhealth.com/rock-weekly/
Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm with a mission to build enduring companies by working with, learning from and developing exceptional people. This PeopleFirst strategy involves finding great values-led CEOs and working closely with them as CEOs-in-Residence to find and pursue founder-owned businesses that are poised for growth but are looking for additional leadership post-transaction. Alpine then works to support these CEOs and invest in their continued development and growth as they lead the acquired company to new heights. Over 15 CEOs have worked with Alpine in this capacity, and the average revenue growth in a CEO-in-Residence led company has been over 200% during the life of Alpine’s investment. Alpine specializes in lower middle-market companies in the software, online and business services industries. We have raised over $900 million of committed capital and have invested in 52 companies since inception in 2001. The Alpine team includes 18 professionals with diverse investing, operations, management, and finance backgrounds. Visit us at www.alpine-investors.com to learn more.
IGP is a San Francisco-based specialist private investment partnership focused exclusively on acquiring middle-market industrial manufacturing businesses. Since our inception in 1997, we have raised $2.2 billion in equity capital across five funds and have successfully invested alongside management in over two dozen platform transactions. Over that period, we have adhered to a consistent approach, focused on building global, market-leading manufacturing companies. Key Facts: - Founded in 1997 - Currently investing out of two funds (Funds IV & V) totaling $1.4 billion in equity capital commitments - Single office in San Francisco - Seek out investments in middle market industrial businesses with revenue up to $250 million and EBITDA up to $30 million - More information can be found at www.igpequity.com
Founded in 1991, Calera Capital, formerly known as Fremont Partners, is a private investment partnership which has $2.8 billion of capital under management. With offices in San Francisco and Boston, Calera invests across a diverse range of industries, including financial services, business services, food and consumer, healthcare, building products, and industrial manufacturing. Calera Capital makes substantial equity investments in operating companies, typically with enterprise values up to $1 billion, and seeks to build long-term sustainable value by working with management teams to implement strategic and operating initiatives.
Hardware startups are hard. Hardware companies face unique barriers to design, manufacturing, distribution and retail. Highway1 offers a collaborative, hands-on environment to help startups move through these challenges and reach a looks like, works like prototype ready for funding. What our program offers: • Investment – Up to $100,000 investment in exchange for 8% equity or $50,000 for 5% • Engineering expertise – Full time EE and ME support • Prototype – 24/7 access to shared workspace and state-of-the-art prototyping labs • Scale – DFM advice from PCH manufacturing engineers • Design – Full time design staff & network with the biggest names in ID • Manufacturing demystified – an inside look at manufacturing • Community & Connections – network of hundreds of alumni, mentors and vendors • Fundraising – Refine your story and network with hardware investors Highway1 is a division of PCH, a custom product solutions company working with some of the world’s best brands.
Passport Capital, LLC is a San Francisco-based, global investment firm founded by John H. Burbank III in 2000. Passport Capital seeks to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns through a combination of macroeconomic analysis, fundamental research and quantitative tools. It employs top-down, macroeconomic analysis to identify durable, secular changes not reflected in asset prices. It conducts rigorous fundamental research in an attempt to identify individual securities that most effectively express the firm's investment views. Finally, the firm employs quantitative tools to construct portfolios aimed at delivering superior returns within specific risk and liquidity targets. Passport Capital is a federally registered investment adviser with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rubicon Venture Capital is a bi-coastal VC (SF and NYC) that invests in Late Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of high potential early stage disruptive technology companies. We are focused on backing consumer and enterprise technology companies in the internet, software and connected hardware verticals. This includes fintech, insurance tech, hospitality tech, marketing tech, big data, AI, machine leaning, enterprise Saas, B2B and B2C. We have co-invested in disruptive companies with notable VCs and angels such as Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Battery Ventures, Tomorrow Ventures, Greylock Partners, Formation 8, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, HBS Angels, Sand Hill Angels to name a few. Rubicon raises capital from corporates, individual high net worth investors, family offices and institutional LPs creating a powerful extensive global network. This provides our portfolio companies access to strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions, leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO. We enable our LPs to co-invest along side the fund on a deal-by-deal basis via innovative sidecar funds right up to IPO or M&A exit. Our goal is to add value to our portfolio companies providing them with access to a powerful constellation of successful Venture Partners and family offices that can help our portfolio companies reach success. Our extensive global network of limited partners and advisors enables our portfolio companies access to capital and strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions and leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO.
Commerce Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing and empowering the next generation of technology innovators in the retail and financial services industries. Our deeply committed LP base is composed of a strategic blend of established entrepreneurs, corporate executives and market leading corporations, enabling us to meaningfully add value to our portfolio companies via introductions to potential clients, distribution partners, top tier advisers and potential key executive additions. We also pride ourselves on being a thought and strategy partner to our portfolio CEOs when we can be helpful, but not wasting their time otherwise. For more information about Commerce Ventures and our 40+ incredible portfolio companies, please visit commercevc.com.
Forerunner Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in ambitious entrepreneurs to define and dominate a new generation of commerce
Rubicon Venture Capital is a bi-coastal VC (SF and NYC) that invests in Late Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of high potential early stage disruptive technology companies. We are focused on backing consumer and enterprise technology companies in the internet, software and connected hardware verticals. This includes fintech, insurance tech, hospitality tech, marketing tech, big data, AI, machine leaning, enterprise Saas, B2B and B2C. We have co-invested in disruptive companies with notable VCs and angels such as Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Battery Ventures, Tomorrow Ventures, Greylock Partners, Formation 8, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, HBS Angels, Sand Hill Angels to name a few. Rubicon raises capital from corporates, individual high net worth investors, family offices and institutional LPs creating a powerful extensive global network. This provides our portfolio companies access to strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions, leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO. We enable our LPs to co-invest along side the fund on a deal-by-deal basis via innovative sidecar funds right up to IPO or M&A exit. Our goal is to add value to our portfolio companies providing them with access to a powerful constellation of successful Venture Partners and family offices that can help our portfolio companies reach success. Our extensive global network of limited partners and advisors enables our portfolio companies access to capital and strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions and leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO.
Seed Equity Ventures is a registered Broker Dealer with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of both FINRA and SIPC, providing Investment Banking services to startups and growth companies from around the world. We believe the best entrepreneurs in the world should be funded, no matter who they are or where they live. Investors throughout the world should have a voice to choose what the future should look like. They should be able to support entrepreneurs that will build that future. Right now, only entrepreneurs in a few select areas who know the right people can be funded and only then if the entrepreneurs' vision matches a VC or Angel Investors criteria or schedule. There are a few thousand VCs in the world who control which entrepreneurial ventures live and which die. We believe that power should be given to millions of people globally. Seed Equity was founded to provide growth equity to entrepreneurs and their startups in exciting industries. Whether they are located in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Bangalore, London, Shanghai or Tel Aviv, Seed Equity's mission is to help find the best and brightest entrepreneurs and connect them with global investors. www.seedequity.com
Great entrepreneurs at the early revenue stage need more than capital to accelerate their business. NextWorld Capital leads Series A and B rounds and then helps entrepreneurs accelerate growth with our Global Enterprise Platform— designed to bring together the best enterprise startups and 100+ of the largest global corporates as customers and partners. NextWorld’s investments include Zuora (ZUO), Gong.io, DataStax, Copper, BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo), and DynamicOps (acquired by VMware). NextWorld is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London and Paris. www.nextworldcap.com
Nth Power is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and is the first and most experienced venture capital firm funding promising startup companies in the growing sector of energy technology, materials and other related businesses. With $420 million under management in four funds and an investment record that begins in 1997, Nth Power is widely known and well regarded as the driving force behind many of the most successful energy technology companies. The firm’s leading history in energy related venture capital is the result of a deep network of energy entrepreneurs, universities and research institutions, unmatched corporate relationships and the backing of institutional capital. And because the firm is located in the center of much of where energy is innovating, Nth Power plays a visionary role in pushing forward the businesses that are addressing some of the worlds most pressing energy challenges.
Rubicon Venture Capital is a bi-coastal VC (SF and NYC) that invests in Late Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of high potential early stage disruptive technology companies. We are focused on backing consumer and enterprise technology companies in the internet, software and connected hardware verticals. This includes fintech, insurance tech, hospitality tech, marketing tech, big data, AI, machine leaning, enterprise Saas, B2B and B2C. We have co-invested in disruptive companies with notable VCs and angels such as Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Battery Ventures, Tomorrow Ventures, Greylock Partners, Formation 8, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, HBS Angels, Sand Hill Angels to name a few. Rubicon raises capital from corporates, individual high net worth investors, family offices and institutional LPs creating a powerful extensive global network. This provides our portfolio companies access to strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions, leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO. We enable our LPs to co-invest along side the fund on a deal-by-deal basis via innovative sidecar funds right up to IPO or M&A exit. Our goal is to add value to our portfolio companies providing them with access to a powerful constellation of successful Venture Partners and family offices that can help our portfolio companies reach success. Our extensive global network of limited partners and advisors enables our portfolio companies access to capital and strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions and leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO.
Commerce Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing and empowering the next generation of technology innovators in the retail and financial services industries. Our deeply committed LP base is composed of a strategic blend of established entrepreneurs, corporate executives and market leading corporations, enabling us to meaningfully add value to our portfolio companies via introductions to potential clients, distribution partners, top tier advisers and potential key executive additions. We also pride ourselves on being a thought and strategy partner to our portfolio CEOs when we can be helpful, but not wasting their time otherwise. For more information about Commerce Ventures and our 40+ incredible portfolio companies, please visit commercevc.com.
Obvious is a small company in downtown San Francisco, started in 2011 by Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman. We believe in the power of building systems that help people work together to make the world smarter, healthier, and just ... better.
The first venture fund dedicated to digital health We want to make healthcare massively better for every human being. Join us and build something useful. Get the most important digital health news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to the Rock Weekly. https://rockhealth.com/rock-weekly/