Venture capital firms in San Francisco

The most storied venture firm in the world, seeded on Sand Hill Road in 1972. Early backer of Apple, Google, Nvidia, Airbnb, Stripe and WhatsApp. In 2023-24 it split off its China (HongShan) and India/SEA (Peak XV Partners) arms, so the ...

Founded 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, now a multi-stage giant with 40B+ under management across crypto, bio, American Dynamism and AI. Portfolio includes Coinbase, Airbnb, Databricks and Anduril. Known for its heavyweight fou...

Peter Thiel's contrarian, founder-friendly firm, run day-to-day by partners including Brian Singerman and Napoleon Ta. Made defining bets on SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Stripe and Facebook. Famous for large concentrated positions and a de...

A deliberately small, equal-partnership firm with no junior investors, known for high-conviction Series A leads. Legendary early bets on eBay, Uber, Snap, Twitter, Discord and Dropbox. Each partner sits directly on boards; no growth arm.

One of the oldest US venture firms (1965), now heavily focused on early-stage enterprise and consumer, plus a strong AI push led by partners like Reid Hoffman and Saam Motamedi. Backed LinkedIn, Airbnb, Figma, Discord and Coinbase. Runs ...

Multi-stage global firm (Palo Alto, London, Bangalore) famous for its early Facebook bet. Portfolio spans Slack, Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Spotify and Vimeo. Its India office (Accel India) is a major force in the domestic startup scene, re...

A defining Sand Hill Road institution (1972) that backed Amazon, Google, Genentech and Twitter. Revitalized in recent years around early-stage bets by partners like Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, with wins in Figma, Rippling and Loom.

Multi-stage global firm with strong enterprise and consumer franchises and a large India practice (Lightspeed India). Backed Snap, Affirm, Rubrik, Nutanix and Mistral. Active across the US-India corridor, making it doubly relevant to eCh...

Founded by Indian-origin billionaire Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems co-founder, IIT Delhi alum) in 2004, with a bold science and deep-tech thesis. Notably the first institutional investor in OpenAI; also backed DoorDash, Instacart, Strip...

Transatlantic multi-stage firm with deep SF and European roots. Backed Figma, Discord, Scale AI, Roblox, Wiz and Revolut. Known for pairing US and European market access for founders.

Fast-growing multi-stage platform pursuing a 'global resilience' and health-transformation thesis. Backer of Stripe, Anthropic, Ramp, Snap, HubSpot and Mistral. Has scaled into one of the largest venture platforms by AUM.

One of the largest and oldest US venture firms, investing across tech and healthcare from seed to growth. Portfolio includes Databricks, Robinhood, Cloudflare, Uber and Plaid. Bicoastal, with a major Sand Hill Road presence.

Century-old firm turned cloud-software powerhouse, author of the widely cited 'State of the Cloud' report. Backed Shopify, Twilio, LinkedIn, Toast and Pinterest. Strong SaaS and vertical-software franchise.

Early-stage firm (est. 1969) led by managing partner Navin Chaddha, an IIT Delhi alum and one of the most consistent Forbes Midas List investors. Committing ~$3B to AI 'inception' bets; past wins include Lyft, HashiCorp, Poshmark and Sol...

Multi-stage firm (backed by Wells Fargo) investing across the US, India and Israel. Notable India-corridor bets via Norwest India include roughly all major consumer franchises; global portfolio spans Uber, Spotify, Plaid and Calm. Deep o...

Early-stage firm with a long enterprise and fintech track record. Backed Netflix (early), Chegg, Sunrun and Solana. Focused on seed and Series A across AI, fintech and infrastructure.

Multi-stage firm with dedicated early and growth funds. Backed Stripe, Snowflake (early), Twilio, HashiCorp and Ramp. Strong in infrastructure and developer-tooling.

Later-stage growth specialist (est. 1980) writing large Series B+ checks. Backed Twitter, Snap, Slack, Coinbase, Figma and Discord. Focuses on scaling breakout companies toward IPO.

Low-profile but highly influential firm that incubates and builds enterprise-infrastructure companies. Famed for its foundational, company-building role in Snowflake, Pure Storage and Lacework. Operates as a single evergreen partnership.

Multi-stage firm (est. 1976) that has become a major AI backer, leading a large strategic investment in Anthropic and running the Anthology Fund with it. Past bets include Uber, Roku, Warby Parker and Benchling.