797 investors organized by era, thesis, and investment pattern. Investors can appear in multiple groups.
The OGs
Investing since before the dot-com bubble burst. They've seen every cycle and are still writing checks.
25 investors
Andy Rachleff,
Bill Gross,
Bill Gurley,
Bob Kagle,
Bruce Dunlevie,
David Cowan,
Doug Leone,
Fabrice Grinda,
Jay Hoag,
John Doerr,
Julian Robertson,
Kevin Hartz,
Kevin Harvey,
Magdalena Yesil,
Michael Moritz,
Nat Friedman,
Nick Hanauer,
Rick Kimball,
Rob Citrone,
Ron Conway,
Sonja Hoel Perkins,
Tom Dyal,
Naval Ravikant,
Navin Chaddha,
Lee Ainslie
The Original Super Angels
The 2005-2012 wave that proved individual investors could compete with big firms. They invented the angel-at-scale model.
21 investors
Bill Trenchard,
Charles Hudson,
Chris Fralic,
Chris Sacca,
Dan Scheinman,
Elad Gil,
Erik Blachford,
Howard Morgan,
Hugh Crean,
Jack Dorsey,
John Collison,
Josh Kopelman,
Mike Maples Jr.,
Patrick Collison,
Rob Hayes,
Sam Altman,
Scott Belsky,
Steve Anderson,
Naval Ravikant,
Alexis Ohanian,
Chris Larsen
The Hardest of Hard Tech
Atoms over bits. These investors back rockets, robots, chips, and defense systems where the moat is physics, not code.
34 investors
Angela Tran,
Bilal Zuberi,
Dan Sundheim,
Daniel Ek,
David Cowan,
David Sacks,
Elad Gil,
Howard Morgan,
Jerry Yang,
Joe Lonsdale,
Josh Wolfe,
Katherine Boyle,
Kevin Hartz,
Matthew Ocko,
Mike Maples Jr.,
Peter Hébert,
Philippe Laffont,
Shaun Maguire,
Zachary Bogue,
Matt Clifford,
Michael Dempsey,
David Hirsch,
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Scott Stanford,
Brian Singerman,
Vinod Dham,
Umesh Padval,
Jim Kim,
Lip-Bu Tan,
Christopher Ré,
Chase Koch,
Mike Volpi,
John Hennessy
Not Afraid of Regulators
They invest where others fear to tread — fintech, healthcare, crypto, insurance. Regulatory complexity is a moat, not a bug.
18 investors
Andrew Dudum,
Gigi Levy-Weiss,
Josephine Chen,
Lia Cromwell,
Mar Hershenson,
Micky Malka,
Sheel Mohnot,
Tim Draper,
Josh Mohrer,
Bradley Tusk,
Brad Garlinghouse,
Tom Glocer,
Ranjan Pai,
Penny Pritzker,
Sameer Nigam,
Vijay Pande,
Scott Stanford,
Chris Sacca
The AI True Believers
Invested in AI before it was cool — and doubled down after. Their portfolios include the companies building the foundation models.
49 investors
Byron Deeter,
Chase Coleman III,
Dan Sundheim,
Elad Gil,
Greg Brockman,
John Curtius,
Joshua Kushner,
Josh Wolfe,
Lee Fixel,
Mike Volpi,
Nat Friedman,
Neil Mehta,
Pat Grady,
Paul Buchheit,
Philippe Laffont,
Ron Conway,
Sameer Gandhi,
Sonya Huang,
Michael Mignano,
Thomas Wolf,
Jordan Crook,
Thomas Dohmke,
Immad Akhund,
Nathan Benaich,
Christian Szegedy,
Lan Xuezhao,
Harry Stebbings,
Bryan Kim,
Guillaume Lample,
Clément Delangue,
Olivia Moore,
Justine Moore,
Anish Acharya,
Christopher Ré,
Dawn Song,
Julien Chaumond,
Ted Xiao,
Guy Fighel,
Tri Dao,
Dalton Caldwell,
Vijay Pande,
Benny Peretz,
Elliot Hershberg,
Ramtin Naimi,
Lee Linden,
John Hennessy,
Sean Neville,
Karim Atiyeh,
Ethan Kurzweil
Crypto Conviction
HODLing through every winter. They kept backing blockchain and crypto infrastructure when everyone else ran.
18 investors
Boris Wertz,
Chris Dixon,
Dan Morehead,
Fred Ehrsam,
Katie Haun,
Lee Fixel,
Matt Huang,
Paul Veradittakit,
Tarun Chitra,
Robert Leshner,
Spencer Applebaum,
Shayon Sengupta,
Chris Larsen,
Alexis Ohanian,
Garry Tan,
Ramtin Naimi,
John Hennessy,
Sean Neville
The Fintech Mafia
Deep in the financial plumbing. They backed multiple fintech unicorns and understand payments, lending, and banking infrastructure cold.
36 investors
Ali Rowghani,
Daniel Gross,
Elad Gil,
Joshua Kushner,
Keith Rabois,
Kevin Hartz,
Lauren Kolodny,
Max Levchin,
Micky Malka,
Neil Mehta,
Paul Buchheit,
Ron Conway,
Satya Patel,
Theresia Gouw,
Yuri Milner,
Tom Glocer,
Alex Rampell,
Taavet Hinrikus,
Immad Akhund,
Karim Atiyeh,
Sandeep Tandon,
Nithin Kamath,
Anish Acharya,
Seema Amble,
Sameer Nigam,
Penny Pritzker,
Dalton Caldwell,
Harj Taggar,
Garry Tan,
Chase Coleman III,
Lee Linden,
Zach Weinberg,
Benny Peretz,
Yashish Dahiya,
Sean Neville,
David Vélez
The Consumer Whisperers
They see consumer behavior shifts before anyone else. Portfolios full of the apps and marketplaces that changed daily life.
38 investors
Alfred Lin,
Bennett Siegel,
Bijan Sabet,
Daniel Gross,
David Sacks,
Elad Gil,
Jay Hoag,
Josh Kopelman,
Keith Rabois,
Kevin Hartz,
Lee Fixel,
Mary Meeker,
Paul Buchheit,
Philippe Laffont,
Ron Conway,
Sam Altman,
Scott Belsky,
Shervin Pishevar,
Woody Marshall,
Yuri Milner,
Aman Gupta,
Carl Pei,
Kanwaljit Singh,
Bryan Kim,
Mohit Gupta,
Ryan Hudson,
Ujwal Sutaria,
Kevin Colleran,
Will Quist,
Megan Lightcap,
Olivia Moore,
Justine Moore,
Nicole Quinn,
Alexis Ohanian,
Chris Sacca,
Naveen Selvadurai,
Deepinder Goyal,
Lee Linden
The Solo GPs
No partnership, no committee, no BS. They write their own checks and make their own decisions — often faster than anyone else.
26 investors
Dan Scheinman,
David Cancel,
Elad Gil,
Erik Blachford,
Greg Brockman,
Hugh Crean,
Jack Dorsey,
John Collison,
Katrina Lake,
Kevin Systrom,
Lachy Groom,
Sam Altman,
Sam Shank,
Immad Akhund,
Bryce Roberts,
Helen Liang,
Lan Xuezhao,
Mike Volpi,
Ethan Kurzweil,
Lynne Chou O'Keefe,
Tikhon Bernstam,
Freddie Martignetti,
Sahil Lavingia,
Chris Sacca,
Ramtin Naimi,
Eric Tarczynski
The Unicorn Collectors
Five or more unicorns in a single portfolio. These investors have an uncanny ability to pick winners — or the dealflow to never miss.
21 investors
Alfred Lin,
Chase Coleman III,
Daniel Gross,
David Sacks,
Elad Gil,
Garry Tan,
Joshua Kushner,
Kevin Hartz,
Mary Meeker,
Max Levchin,
Neil Mehta,
Paul Buchheit,
Philippe Laffont,
Ron Conway,
Sam Altman,
Yuri Milner,
Alexis Ohanian,
Navin Chaddha,
Scott Stanford,
Chris Sacca,
Brian Singerman
The First Check Club
They wrote the seed check that started a unicorn — and did it more than once. The rarest skill in venture: picking winners before anyone else sees them.
22 investors
Bill Trenchard,
Dan Rose,
Daniel Gross,
Garry Tan,
Howard Morgan,
Jack Abraham,
Josh Kopelman,
Kevin Hartz,
Lachy Groom,
Mar Hershenson,
Max Levchin,
Ron Conway,
Scott Belsky,
Mo Koyfman,
Bryce Roberts,
Immad Akhund,
Naval Ravikant,
Zach Weinberg,
Chris Sacca,
Harj Taggar,
Alexis Ohanian,
Naveen Selvadurai
The Hedge Fund Crossovers
Wall Street money that crossed over to Sand Hill Road. When these investors show up, the check sizes get very large, very fast.
14 investors
Brad Gerstner,
Chase Coleman III,
Dan Rose,
David Goel,
Jaimin Rangwalla,
Julian Robertson,
Nathan Urquhart,
Neil Mehta,
Philippe Laffont,
Rob Citrone,
Stephen Mandel,
Yuri Milner,
Lee Ainslie,
Benny Peretz
The PayPal Mafia & Friends
Alumni of PayPal's founding team and the investors who run in their orbit. The original startup mafia — still the most influential network in tech.
8 investors
The Marketplace Playbook
They understand liquidity, take rates, and chicken-and-egg problems better than anyone. The investors who wrote the book on two-sided marketplaces.
30 investors
Alfred Lin,
Daniel Gross,
David Sacks,
Elad Gil,
Fabrice Grinda,
Garry Tan,
Keith Rabois,
Mary Meeker,
Paul Buchheit,
Philippe Laffont,
Ron Conway,
Shervin Pishevar,
Yuri Milner,
Rohit Bansal,
Vani Kola,
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Carlos García Ottati,
Simón Borrero,
Felipe Villamarín,
Florian Hagenbuch,
Apoorva Mehta,
Chris Sacca,
Alexis Ohanian,
Binny Bansal,
Harj Taggar,
Chase Coleman III,
Scott Stanford,
Lee Linden,
Benny Peretz,
Neil Mehta
The Israel Connection
Investing in or from Israel's legendary startup ecosystem. Deep ties to Unit 8200 alumni, cybersecurity, and deep tech.
13 investors
Assaf Rappaport,
Gigi Levy-Weiss,
Gil Ben-Artzy,
Gili Raanan,
Lia Cromwell,
Michael Shaulov,
Mickey Boodaei,
Nir Zuk,
Shlomo Kramer,
Shuly Galili,
Yotam Segev,
Guy Fighel,
Avishai Abrahami
The European Vanguard
The investors building Europe's startup ecosystem from London, Berlin, Stockholm, and beyond. Proving you don't need Sand Hill Road.
42 investors
Alex Ferrara,
Andrew Braccia,
Daniel Ek,
Danny Rimer,
Jan Hammer,
John Doran,
Luciana Lixandru,
Martin Mignot,
Mike Volpi,
Neil Rimer,
Nikolay Storonsky,
Ping Li,
Rich Wong,
Sameer Gandhi,
Shakil Khan,
Shardul Shah,
Sonali De Rycker,
Matt Clifford,
Alice Bentinck,
Taavet Hinrikus,
Andrey Khusid,
Thomas Wolf,
Martín Varsavsky,
Thomas Dohmke,
Willem Delbare,
Carl Pei,
Karri Saarinen,
Louis Jonckheere,
Pieterjan Bouten,
Ian Hogarth,
Mårten Mickos,
Sten Tamkivi,
Nathan Benaich,
Khaled Helioui,
Mathias Geeroms,
Carina Namih,
Roeland Delrue,
Jeroen De Wit,
Harry Stebbings,
Andi Kazeroonian,
Jean Tardy-Joubert,
Des Traynor
The Biotech Believers
From CRISPR to synthetic biology to computational drug discovery. They bet on the biological century.
15 investors
Eddie Eltoukhy,
Elad Gil,
Gigi Levy-Weiss,
Jerry Yang,
Josh Wolfe,
Mar Hershenson,
Vijay Pande,
Zach Weinberg,
Martín Varsavsky,
Carina Namih,
Ranjan Pai,
Meredith Fisher,
Elliot Hershberg,
Brian Singerman,
Othman Laraki
Founders Who Became VCs
They built companies first, then crossed to the other side of the table. They know what it's like to be in the founder's seat.
158 investors
Ali Rowghani,
Andrew Dudum,
Bret Taylor,
Chester Ng,
Dalton Caldwell,
David Cancel,
Garry Tan,
Hayley Barna,
Jack Abraham,
Kevin Hartz,
Matt Cohler,
Mike Maples Jr.,
Nat Friedman,
Rich Barton,
Sarah Tavel,
Scott Belsky,
Kunal Bahl,
Kunal Shah,
Grant Verstandig,
Rachel Holt,
Rohit Bansal,
Naveen Tewari,
John Borthwick,
Kevin Lin,
Adrien Treuille,
Andrew Kortina,
David Karp,
Brad Garlinghouse,
Sam Hinkie,
Vani Kola,
David Cohen,
Vineeta Singh,
Aman Gupta,
Tom Glocer,
Peyush Bansal,
Ashneer Grover,
Ghazal Alagh,
Rehan Yar Khan,
Jared Polis,
Jon Callaghan,
Trip Adler,
Dan Siroker,
Steve Huffman,
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Jon Oringer,
Alexis Ohanian,
Lee Linden,
Penny Pritzker,
Zach Weinberg,
Benny Peretz,
Neil Mehta,
Brian Singerman,
Taavet Hinrikus,
Andrey Khusid,
Michael Mignano,
Thomas Wolf,
Yahya Mokhtarzada,
Martín Varsavsky,
Thomas Dohmke,
Alex Rampell,
Brian Balfour,
Bryce Roberts,
Immad Akhund,
Nikhil Kamath,
Naval Ravikant,
Navin Chaddha,
Scott Stanford,
Vijay Pande,
Cal Henderson,
Ritesh Agarwal,
Daniel Ek,
Stewart Butterfield,
Wences Casares,
Tarun Chitra,
Yotam Segev,
Assaf Rappaport,
Sumeet Singh,
Erik Blachford,
Sameer Mehta,
Mukesh Bansal,
Willem Delbare,
Carl Pei,
Karri Saarinen,
Louis Jonckheere,
Pieterjan Bouten,
Karim Atiyeh,
Ian Hogarth,
Mårten Mickos,
Sten Tamkivi,
Sahil Lavingia,
Khaled Helioui,
Mathias Geeroms,
Carina Namih,
Helen Liang,
Christian Szegedy,
Roeland Delrue,
Jeroen De Wit,
Pete Koomen,
Harry Stebbings,
Lenny Rachitsky,
Kanwaljit Singh,
Deep Kalra,
Vinod Dham,
Ashish Hemrajani,
Mohit Gupta,
Sandeep Tandon,
Mike Volpi,
Naveen Selvadurai,
Chris Larsen,
Bhavish Aggarwal,
Nithin Kamath,
Lynne Chou O'Keefe,
Alex Bouaziz,
Carlos García Ottati,
Simón Borrero,
Ranjan Pai,
Tikhon Bernstam,
Ryan Hudson,
Gazal Alagh,
Umesh Padval,
Felipe Villamarín,
Florian Hagenbuch,
Clément Delangue,
Harj Taggar,
Apoorva Mehta,
Halle Tecco,
Lip-Bu Tan,
Dina Radenkovic,
Freddie Martignetti,
Christopher Ré,
Sarah Friar,
Tomer London,
Julien Chaumond,
Marc Weiser,
Tri Dao,
Deepinder Goyal,
Sameer Nigam,
Des Traynor,
Binny Bansal,
Yashish Dahiya,
John Hennessy,
Sean Neville,
David Vélez,
Othman Laraki,
Brad Fitzpatrick,
Avishai Abrahami,
Anshu Sharma
The Quiet Giants
They don't tweet, they don't podcast, they just write very large checks. The growth and late-stage investors who let returns do the talking.
21 investors
Andrew Braccia,
Andrew Reed,
Brad Gerstner,
Chase Coleman III,
Dan Sundheim,
David Goel,
John Doran,
Mary Meeker,
Neil Mehta,
Nikolay Storonsky,
Pat Grady,
Ram Parameswaran,
Rick Kimball,
Sameer Gandhi,
Stephen Mandel,
Teddie Wardi,
Yuri Milner,
Penny Pritzker,
Lee Ainslie,
Benny Peretz,
Jeff Horing
The YC Network
Y Combinator partners and the investors who consistently back YC's best. When a YC company raises, these names are on the cap table.
15 investors
Alfred Lin,
Dalton Caldwell,
Elad Gil,
Garry Tan,
Jessica Livingston,
Paul Buchheit,
Paul Graham,
Ron Conway,
Sam Altman,
Alexis Ohanian,
Immad Akhund,
Steve Huffman,
Pete Koomen,
Harj Taggar,
Brian Singerman
The Cyber-Israel Nexus
Where Israel's cybersecurity expertise meets venture capital. These investors understand threat landscapes and have the 8200 alumni network on speed dial.
10 investors
The Climate Vanguard
Betting the energy transition is the biggest investment opportunity of the century. These investors actually back the hard science, not just the marketing.
6 investors
The Prolific Angels
Quantity AND quality. These investors have 40+ companies in their portfolios — they see more deals, write more checks, and build broader networks than anyone.
38 investors
Boris Wertz,
Brianne Kimmel,
Byron Deeter,
Dan Sundheim,
Elad Gil,
Fabrice Grinda,
Gil Ben-Artzy,
Greg Brockman,
John Curtius,
John Griffin,
José Marín,
Lee Fixel,
Mamoon Hamid,
Mike Maples Jr.,
Nat Turner,
Ramtin Naimi,
Ron Conway,
Steve Anderson,
Kunal Shah,
Kunal Bahl,
Rohit Bansal,
Naveen Tewari,
John Borthwick,
Jon Callaghan,
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Taavet Hinrikus,
Alexis Ohanian,
Immad Akhund,
Naval Ravikant,
Lee Linden,
Mårten Mickos,
Harj Taggar,
Apoorva Mehta,
Halle Tecco,
Chris Sacca,
Des Traynor,
Zach Weinberg
The Pear VC Partnership
Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson's pre-seed powerhouse. Stanford-rooted, technical-founder focused, with 19 shared investments and a deep Bay Area network.
12 investors
Ajay Kamat,
Arash Afrakhteh,
Arash Ferdowsi,
Eddie Eltoukhy,
Harris Stolzenberg,
Kathleen Estreich,
Khalil Fuller,
Mar Hershenson,
Pejman Nozad,
Ryan Sells,
Shravan Reddy,
Warren Shaeffer
Women in Venture
The women shaping venture capital — from pioneering GPs to the next generation of partners writing the biggest checks in tech.
71 investors
Aileen Lee,
Angela Tran,
Ann Miura-Ko,
Anu Hariharan,
Brianne Kimmel,
Connie Chan,
Erica Brescia,
Hayley Barna,
Jennifer Fonstad,
Jess Lee,
Jessica Livingston,
Josephine Chen,
Karen Page,
Katherine Boyle,
Kathleen Estreich,
Katie Haun,
Katrina Lake,
Kirsten Green,
Kristina Shen,
Lauren Kolodny,
Lia Cromwell,
Luciana Lixandru,
Magdalena Yesil,
Mar Hershenson,
Mary Meeker,
Morgan Beller,
Rebecca Kaden,
Sarah Tavel,
Shaherose Charania,
Shruti Gandhi,
Shuly Galili,
Sonali De Rycker,
Sonja Hoel Perkins,
Sonya Huang,
Stephanie Zhan,
Talia Goldberg,
Theresia Gouw,
Yasmin Razavi,
Sarah Catanzaro,
Dayna Grayson,
Rachel Holt,
Alice Bentinck,
Gina Gotthilf,
Kesha Cash,
Stefanie Thomas-Martin,
Vani Kola,
Vineeta Singh,
Namita Thapar,
Ghazal Alagh,
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Carina Namih,
Helen Liang,
Lan Xuezhao,
Lynne Chou O'Keefe,
Gazal Alagh,
Juliette Bolea,
Meredith Fisher,
Megan Lightcap,
Andi Kazeroonian,
Halle Tecco,
Olivia Moore,
Dina Radenkovic,
Justine Moore,
Dawn Song,
Seema Amble,
Elissa Fink,
Sarah Friar,
Victoria Beasley,
Jomayra Herrera,
Nicole Quinn
The Dev Tools Obsessives
They back the picks and shovels every developer reaches for. Open source, infrastructure, and the building blocks of modern software.
30 investors
Dalton Caldwell,
Daniel Gross,
Greg Brockman,
Guillermo Rauch,
Jerry Chen,
John Collison,
John Curtius,
Joseph Ruscio,
Mike Volpi,
Nat Friedman,
Patrick Collison,
Peter Fenton,
Ping Li,
Teddie Wardi,
Sarah Catanzaro,
Lenny Pruss,
Mike Dauber,
Thomas Dohmke,
Willem Delbare,
Karri Saarinen,
Karim Atiyeh,
Ethan Kurzweil,
Sahil Lavingia,
Chris Sacca,
Lee Linden,
Des Traynor,
Bryce Roberts,
John Hennessy,
Brad Fitzpatrick,
Anshu Sharma
The IPO Whisperers
Three or more portfolio companies that went public. These investors don't just pick winners — they pick companies that reach the finish line.
30 investors
Alfred Lin,
Chris Sacca,
David Sacks,
Elad Gil,
Fred Wilson,
John Curtius,
Joshua Kushner,
Keith Rabois,
Kevin Hartz,
Marc Andreessen,
Mary Meeker,
Paul Buchheit,
Philippe Laffont,
Ram Parameswaran,
Ron Conway,
Shervin Pishevar,
Yuri Milner,
Navin Chaddha,
Steve Huffman,
Stewart Butterfield,
Deep Kalra,
Chase Coleman III,
Scott Stanford,
Benny Peretz,
Neil Mehta,
Jeff Horing,
Mike Volpi,
Ethan Kurzweil,
Sean Neville,
David Vélez
The Ron Conway Extended Family
Ron Conway's co-investment network — the investors who consistently show up on the same cap tables. When Ron says yes, these people are often right behind him.
5 investors
The Entertainment Tech Investors
Gaming, streaming, social, and the creator economy. They understand attention, engagement, and what people do when they're not working.
16 investors
Bijan Sabet,
Chris Fralic,
Danny Rimer,
David Cowan,
David Sze,
Ethan Kurzweil,
Jeremy Levine,
Neil Rimer,
Roelof Botha,
Ron Conway,
Sameer Gandhi,
Woody Marshall,
Kevin Lin,
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Nicole Quinn
The Moonshot Trifecta
Backed two or more of: OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX. They bet on the biggest, most ambitious ideas humanity has ever attempted.
5 investors
The Pacific Northwest
Seattle, Portland, Vancouver — the other coast of West Coast tech. Amazon, Microsoft, and a growing startup ecosystem that doesn't need Sand Hill Road.
8 investors
The Future of Work Investors
They backed the tools that replaced the office — Slack, Figma, Notion, Gusto, Rippling. Betting that how we work matters as much as what we build.
15 investors
Benny Peretz,
Dan Rose,
Daniel Gross,
Elad Gil,
Gokul Rajaram,
Lachy Groom,
Mamoon Hamid,
Neil Mehta,
Patrick Collison,
Ron Conway,
Brian Balfour,
Andrey Khusid,
Alex Bouaziz,
Jomayra Herrera,
Des Traynor
The YC Alumni Network
They built companies through Y Combinator, then crossed to the investor side. The YC network is the most powerful alumni network in startups — and they're proof.
37 investors
Alexis Ohanian,
Ali Rowghani,
Amjad Masad,
Anu Hariharan,
Arash Ferdowsi,
Brett Gibson,
Brianne Kimmel,
Dalton Caldwell,
Daniel Gross,
Erica Brescia,
Garry Tan,
James Lindenbaum,
Jessica Livingston,
John Collison,
Josh Buckley,
Kevin Hartz,
Liz Wessel,
Matt Huang,
Neil Mehta,
Olaf Carlson-Wee,
Patrick Collison,
Paul Buchheit,
Paul Copplestone,
Paul Graham,
Pete Flint,
Ram Parameswaran,
Sam Altman,
Todd Goldberg,
Trip Adler,
Dan Siroker,
Steve Huffman,
Immad Akhund,
Lee Linden,
Pete Koomen,
Tikhon Bernstam,
Harj Taggar,
Apoorva Mehta
The Decacorn Club
Backed three or more companies worth $10B+. When the biggest outcomes in tech history were being funded, these investors were in the room.
48 investors
Alfred Lin,
Ali Rowghani,
Benny Peretz,
Brad Gerstner,
Chase Coleman III,
Chris Dixon,
Dan Sundheim,
Daniel Gross,
David Sacks,
Elad Gil,
Fred Wilson,
Garry Tan,
John Curtius,
Joshua Kushner,
Kareem Zaki,
Keith Rabois,
Kevin Hartz,
Lee Fixel,
Marc Stad,
Mary Meeker,
Max Levchin,
Neil Mehta,
Paul Buchheit,
Philippe Laffont,
Ram Parameswaran,
Ron Conway,
Sam Altman,
Shervin Pishevar,
Theresia Gouw,
Yuri Milner,
Alex Rampell,
Taavet Hinrikus,
Andrey Khusid,
Alexis Ohanian,
Cal Henderson,
Daniel Ek,
Stewart Butterfield,
Assaf Rappaport,
Alex Bouaziz,
Carlos García Ottati,
Simón Borrero,
Felipe Villamarín,
Florian Hagenbuch,
Apoorva Mehta,
Tomer London,
Brian Singerman,
David Vélez,
Ethan Kurzweil
Authors Who Invest
They wrote the books founders actually read — then started writing checks. Venture capitalists who shaped startup thinking through bestsellers.
13 investors
Ben Horowitz,
Bill Gurley,
David Cancel,
Elad Gil,
John Doerr,
Marc Andreessen,
Naval Ravikant,
Paul Graham,
Reid Hoffman,
Tim Draper,
Alexis Ohanian,
Sahil Lavingia,
Lenny Rachitsky
The Engineer-Investors
They wrote code before they wrote checks. Engineers and CTOs who became investors — they can read your architecture docs, not just your pitch deck.
52 investors
Adam D'Angelo,
Amjad Masad,
Balaji Srinivasan,
Bret Taylor,
Dalton Caldwell,
David Cancel,
Dylan Field,
Erica Brescia,
Greg Brockman,
Guillermo Rauch,
Ilya Sutskever,
Karim Atiyeh,
Marc Andreessen,
Martin Casado,
Max Levchin,
Nat Friedman,
Nir Zuk,
Olivier Pomel,
Paul Buchheit,
Paul Copplestone,
Paul Graham,
Rahul Vohra,
Sam Altman,
Sarah Guo,
Thomas Wolf,
Thomas Dohmke,
Alex Rampell,
Brian Balfour,
Cal Henderson,
Willem Delbare,
Karri Saarinen,
Christian Szegedy,
Vijay Pande,
Mike Volpi,
Guillaume Lample,
Umesh Padval,
Lip-Bu Tan,
Christopher Ré,
Dawn Song,
Julien Chaumond,
Tri Dao,
Sahil Lavingia,
Garry Tan,
Lee Linden,
Naveen Selvadurai,
Brian Singerman,
Elliot Hershberg,
John Hennessy,
Sean Neville,
Othman Laraki,
Brad Fitzpatrick,
Anshu Sharma
The Proptech Investors
Real estate, construction, and the built environment. These investors believe the largest asset class in the world is still stuck in the 1990s.
8 investors
The Food & Ag Tech Investors
From farm to fork — these investors back the companies reimagining how food is grown, distributed, and delivered.
11 investors
Alfred Lin,
Bennett Siegel,
Garry Tan,
Heidi Roizen,
John O'Farrell,
Paul Buchheit,
Philippe Laffont,
Rob Hayes,
Ron Conway,
Yuri Milner,
Danny Stepper
The Sunbelt Migration
They left San Francisco for Miami, Austin, and beyond — and brought their deal flow with them. The investors proving venture capital doesn't need a 94025 zip code.
10 investors
The Podcast VCs
They build in public — on microphones. Through All-In, Masters of Scale, No Priors, and more, they've made venture capital a spectator sport.
14 investors
Bill Gurley,
Brad Gerstner,
David Sacks,
Elad Gil,
Garry Tan,
Naval Ravikant,
Reid Hoffman,
Sheel Mohnot,
Turner Novak,
Auren Hoffman,
Harry Stebbings,
Lenny Rachitsky,
Harj Taggar,
Eric Tarczynski
The Beltway Disruptors
DC-based investors who bet that the most regulated industries are the most ripe for disruption — defense, healthcare, govtech, and national security.
13 investors
Grant Verstandig,
Dayna Grayson,
Rachel Holt,
Nasir Qadree,
Steve Case,
Frank Rotman,
Scott Kupor,
Stefanie Thomas-Martin,
Jared Polis,
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Ian Hogarth,
Penny Pritzker
The Global South Scouts
They saw the next billion users before everyone else — investing in LatAm, India, and Southeast Asia when the rest of VC was stuck in SF.
26 investors
Kunal Shah,
Kunal Bahl,
Shailendra Singh,
Nicolas Szekasy,
Brian Requarth,
Gina Gotthilf,
Karan Mohla,
Hans Tung,
Vani Kola,
Vineeta Singh,
Namita Thapar,
Aman Gupta,
Peyush Bansal,
Ashneer Grover,
Ghazal Alagh,
Rehan Yar Khan,
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Carlos García Ottati,
Simón Borrero,
Felipe Villamarín,
Florian Hagenbuch,
Binny Bansal,
Chase Coleman III,
Yashish Dahiya,
David Vélez
The Goldman Pipeline
From 200 West Street to Sand Hill Road — Goldman Sachs alumni who turned investment banking training into venture capital careers.
16 investors
Divesh Makan,
Henry Ellenbogen,
Joshua Kushner,
Dan Morehead,
Fred Ehrsam,
Nigel Morris,
Rana Yared,
David Vélez,
Glenn Solomon,
Jeff Horing,
Nasir Qadree,
Tom Loverro,
Mike Novogratz,
Gaetano Crupi,
Scott Stanford,
Olivia Moore
The Defense Tech Vanguard
They bet on Anduril before it was cool — investors who saw defense tech as venture-scale before the geopolitical shift made it obvious.
16 investors
Palmer Luckey,
Trae Stephens,
Joe Lonsdale,
Katherine Boyle,
David Ulevitch,
Josh Wolfe,
Brandon Reeves,
Bilal Zuberi,
Shaun Maguire,
Grant Verstandig,
Peter Tague,
Eric Schmidt,
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Brian Singerman,
Daniel Ek,
Eric Tarczynski
The Persian Pipeline
Iranian-American investors who turned diaspora networks into dealflow — from Pejman's rug shop to Pear VC, this community punches far above its weight.
9 investors
The Saffa Mafia
South Africans who quietly took over Silicon Valley — from running Sequoia to building PayPal to launching their own funds.
6 investors
The Stripe Mafia
Early Stripe operators who took the lessons of building the world's most disciplined fintech and turned them into a venture playbook.
5 investors
The Essayists
Their portfolios speak for themselves — but founders read their writing before pitching.
26 investors
Paul Graham,
Marc Andreessen,
Ben Horowitz,
Fred Wilson,
Andrew Chen,
Hunter Walk,
Sarah Tavel,
Jerry Chen,
Balaji Srinivasan,
Michael Dempsey,
Sam Hinkie,
Michael Mignano,
Auren Hoffman,
Alex Rampell,
Brian Balfour,
Naval Ravikant,
Ian Hogarth,
Nathan Benaich,
Sahil Lavingia,
Pete Koomen,
Lenny Rachitsky,
Garry Tan,
Bryce Roberts,
Clément Delangue,
Elliot Hershberg,
Des Traynor
The IIT Pipeline
Engineering degrees from India's most selective institute, now writing checks across two continents.
17 investors
Vinod Khosla,
Navin Chaddha,
Jyoti Bansal,
Gokul Rajaram,
Sundeep Peechu,
Shailendra Singh,
Rohit Bansal,
Naveen Tewari,
Abhay Singhal,
Mohit Saxena,
Vineeta Singh,
Ashneer Grover,
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Mukesh Bansal,
Binny Bansal,
Anshu Sharma,
Yashish Dahiya
The Indian Operator Mafia
Built India's first unicorns, now writing checks to the country's next generation of founders.
33 investors
Rohit Bansal,
Kunal Bahl,
Kunal Shah,
Naveen Tewari,
Girish Mathrubootham,
Piyush Shah,
Abhay Singhal,
Mohit Saxena,
Vineeta Singh,
Aman Gupta,
Peyush Bansal,
Ashneer Grover,
Ghazal Alagh,
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Nikhil Kamath,
Ritesh Agarwal,
Sameer Mehta,
Mukesh Bansal,
Kanwaljit Singh,
Deep Kalra,
Vinod Dham,
Ashish Hemrajani,
Mohit Gupta,
Sandeep Tandon,
Bhavish Aggarwal,
Nithin Kamath,
Ranjan Pai,
Gazal Alagh,
Sameer Nigam,
Deepinder Goyal,
Binny Bansal,
Yashish Dahiya,
Vani Kola
Shark Tank India Sharks
Operator-judges from India's smash-hit reality show, writing real angel checks beyond on-air commitments.
8 investors
Rebel Fund
YC alumni who turned their exits into a syndicate — investing back into every YC batch via SAFE notes, run by Jared Heyman's data-driven Rebel Theorem.
5 investors