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The most successful entrepreneurs in tech and media you know are backed by venture capital firms. The most impressive investors in the world have invested in companies that grew into empires. Here is the list of top 10 VC investors in USA.
This article is part of a series where we present you the best Venture Capital firms across different cities and countries. Here you can view the rankings for New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.
Top Venture Capital Firms in the United States
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1. Index Ventures
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Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco, and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Since 1996, Index has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to reshape the world around us. The companies they’ve started include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King,Slack, and Supercell.
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Website: www.indexventures.com
Founded: 1996
Total fund size: $12.4B
Index Ventures's most notable exits include Datadog, Adyen, and Roblox.
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2. New Enterprise Associates
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New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.
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Website: www.nea.com
Founded: 1977
Total fund size: $19.9B
New Enterprise Associates's most notable exits include FiscalNote, Uber, and Cloudflare.
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3. Accel
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Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business.
The company brings more than three decades of experience in building and supporting companies. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.
Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded it in Palo Alto, California in 1983.
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Website: www.accel.com
Founded: 1983
Total fund size: $18.3B
Accel's most notable exits include Meta, Atlassian, and Razer.
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4. Sequoia Capital
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Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. Its spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.
The company was founded by Don Valentine in November 1972 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
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Website: www.sequoiacap.com
Founded: 1972
Total fund size: $20.5B
Sequoia Capital's most notable exits include Google, NVIDIA, and Apple.
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5. Kleiner Perkins
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Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.
Kleiner Perkins was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.
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Website: www.kleinerperkins.com
Founded: 1972
Total fund size: $9.2B
Kleiner Perkins's most notable exits include Google, Ring, and Twitter.
6. Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later stage, expansion stage, start-up, growth companies, and incubation and specializes in debt financing for start-up and growth companies.
Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.
The firm was founded in 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.
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Website: www.lsvp.com
Founded: 2000
Total fund size: $18.9B
Lightspeed Venture Partners's most notable exits include Grubhub, Zscaler, and Snap.
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7. Andreessen Horowitz
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Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid stage, growth, and late stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data-storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.
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Website: www.a16z.com
Founded: 2009
Total fund size: $32.4B
Andreessen Horowitz's most notable exits include Coinbase, Lyft, and GitHub.
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8. Bessemer Venture Partners
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Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer, and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio includes Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, and Toast and has $19 billion of assets under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, London, Boston, Beijing, and Bangalore.
Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos at bvp.com/memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio at bvp.com/anti-portfolio).
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Website: www.bvp.com
Founded: 1911
Total fund size: $9.7B
Bessemer Venture Partners's most notable exits include Twitch, Shopify, and Twilio.
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9. Tiger Global Management
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Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.
Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategy has a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.
As a Firm, Tiger Global values integrity, intellectual honesty, continuous improvement, process over outcome, teamwork, the drive to be world-class, and long-term thinking.
Tiger Global Management was founded in 2001 and is based in New York with affiliate offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangalore, and Melbourne.
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Website: www.tigerglobal.com
Founded: 2001
Total fund size: $36.1B
Tiger Global Management's most notable exits include Meta, Coinbase, and PhonePe.
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10. Index Ventures
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Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco, and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Since 1996, Index has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to reshape the world around us. The companies they’ve started include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell.
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Website: www.indexventures.com
Founded: 1996
Total fund size: $12.4B
Index Ventures's most notable exits include Datadog, Adyen, and Roblox.
