Seed funds in San Francisco
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The world's most influential startup accelerator, now led by CEO Garry Tan. Runs multiple batches a year with a standard deal (~$500K) and has launched Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, DoorDash, Instacart and Reddit. Its continuity fund also in...
Seed-stage firm co-founded by Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian, now led by Brett Gibson and Jen Wolf. Earliest institutional backer of Coinbase and Instacart; also backed Cruise, Flexport and Patreon. Concentrated, high-ownership seed bets.
Ron Conway's legendary super-angel outfit and one of Silicon Valley's most networked seed investors. Early checks into Google, Airbnb, Twitter, Pinterest, Square and Dropbox. Now runs SV Angel Growth alongside its seed practice.
Seed-focused firm known for hands-on community and its First Round Review content. Backed Uber (first check), Notion, Roblox, Square and Warby Parker. Runs curated founder networks and structured company-building support.
One of the original Silicon Valley seed funds, founded by Jeff Clavier (formerly SoftTech VC). Early backer of Fitbit, SendGrid, Eventbrite and PagerDuty. Classic first-check, high-conviction seed investor.
Early-stage firm co-founded by David Sacks (PayPal, Yammer) and Bill Lee, with a strong SaaS and marketplace thesis. Backed Airbnb, SpaceX, Reddit, Bird and Cerebral. Known for deep go-to-market and SaaS-metrics playbooks.
Seed firm co-founded by John Vrionis and Indian-origin serial founder Jyoti Bansal (AppDynamics, Harness, Traceable). Built around a structured 'Get Ahead' seed playbook. Backed Harness, Arctic Wolf, Robinhood (early) and Abnormal Security.
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