List of the 2,400 largest Venture Capital Investors [Update 2024]

List of 10 large global venture capital investors

Venture capitalists invest in startups around the world and play an important role in funding innovation. In this section, we introduce you to 10 exciting venture capital investors from our list. The venture capital funds invest in various industries such as technology, biotech, food, consumer products and more.

1. Sequoia Capital (Menlo Park, California)

Sequoia Capital is one of the most respected venture capital firms in its field, founded in 1972 by a man named Don Valentine. It is one of the most influential firms in the technology industry and has backed Apple, Google, YouTube, Airbnb, and WhatsApp, among many others. It leverages deep expertise to recognize high-growth opportunities with an emphasis on innovative technology across sectors. Its portfolio is well-diversified, from early-stage startups to growth and established companies in industries ranging from fintech to AI to healthcare. Its long history of success at Sequoia is partly predicated on its ability to change and expand internationally into markets such as China and India for its global strategy.

Update 2024: In line with its investment strategy, Sequoia Capital recently led a $52 million Series B funding round for Fireworks AI, a Redwood City-based generative AI inference platform provider.

2. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz founded a16z to invest in the bold effort and big idea behind technology companies changing the world. Based on early success with investments into companies like Facebook and Coinbase, a16z invests in early-stage and growth-stage ventures. Their investment philosophy is centred on employing emerging technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, at the heart of their innovation. With a team of experts across different sectors, a16z helps companies scale by offering investment, much-needed operational support, and strategic guidance in the growth journey.

3. IDG Capital (Beijing, China)

IDG Capital is one of the first VC funds to invest internationally in China and has invested in several major Chinese technology companies such as Baidu,Tencent, and Xiaomi. Its investment focus is on early-stage investments in growth sectors like technology, software, and healthcare. With a strong foothold across Asia, IDG looks to support fast-scaling companies that have a significant impact on their respective industries. As a major Chinese fund, it is part of our list of the largest venture capital investors in the world.

4. Insight Partners ( New York City, New York)

Insight Partners is a New York-based growth capital firm that has invested in very successful companies, such as Twitter and Shopify. The firm has mostly focused on software and technology investments, targeting growth-stage companies with immense scale-up potential. It has been one of the most active private equity investors in the U.S. sofware space,leveraging its hands-on approach to help portfolio companies scale consistently and become leading players in their markets.

5. Index Ventures (San Francisco, California)

Index Ventures, with offices in London and Geneva, has supported prominent companies like Revolut and Deliveroo. The firm focuses on investments in both Europe and the U.S., targeting early-stage startups and growth companies. Index Ventures aims to back innovative businesses that have the potential for significant impact, offfering strategic support to help them scale in competitive markets.

6. GGV Capital (Menlo Park, California)

GGV Capital, based in Shanghai, invests in e-commerce and software startups across Asia and the U.S., with a strong focus on tech companiies and digital innovation. Its portfolio includes big names like Alibaba and Xiaomi. GGV Capital supports its portfolio companies in scaling.Drawing from deep insight into both Asian and U.S. markets, it leverages support for ventures leading technological progress and transformation across various industries.

7. Qiming Venture Partners (Shangai, China)

Qiming Venture Partners is a venture capital company mainly based in China, investing in technology and healthcare, with its establishment in 2006. The firm has backed leading companies such as Xiaomi and Meituan and continues to support innovations in artificial intelligence,biotechnology, and emerging digital sectors. Qiming plays a key role in shaping the future of tech and healthcare, leveraging expertise to support startups in scaling the competitive markets

8. Atomico (London, United Kingdom)

Atomico is a London-based venture capital firm founded by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype. It’s a growth-stage investor in AI, spacetech, fintech, and software-all disruptive, category-leading technologies that will shape the future. Atomico invests at growth stage in pioneering startups and scales globaly to drive category leadership and industry change. It has gained recognition for its expertise in pinpointing disruptive opportunities and fostering growth within nascent sectors that shape the future of technology. By being an extraordinarily active investor, Atomico is an integral part of our VC investor list.

9. EQT Ventures (Stockholm, Sweden)

EQT Ventures is the VC arm of EQT, one of the largest investment firms in Europe, scaling innovative companies in technology, healthcare, and sustainability. Building on investments like Wolt and Einride, EQT Ventures focuses on growth and scalability in industries driving change for the future. Their strategy is to invest in breakout startups with high potential impact, supported by the firm’s global network and competencies in scaling a business.

10. Balderton Capital (London, United Kingdom)

With its base in London, Balderton Capital is one of the leading venture capital investors in our list, having set a significant focus on startuups within the European region. It has invested in firms like GoCardless and Depop, providing them with capital and strategic advice through scaling. At the forefront of Balderton’s focus is how to find innovative tech solutions that further support entrepreneurs in accelerating growth, with an emphasis on sustainable and disruptive businesses across a number of industries

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Startup Investment Verticals of included VC Funds

The global venture capital investors in our list are active in different verticals. We use our advanced keyword crawler technology to analyze the websites of included firms for dedicated keywords. In the following, we are highlighting certain focus lists that directly stem from our global list.

Included columns in our VC list

Our VC list is the perfect starting point to get in touch with the most important venture capital investors in the world. The list simply includes the most important columns for an overview.

• Name of the VC fund
• Country of origin
• URL
• E-mail (general)
• Investment focus (if data available)
• Corporate VC (yes/no)
• Investment focus-related keyword rates

What are the “investment focus-related keyword rates”?

One main advantage of our lists are the possibility to enrich them with keyword crawler related metrics. Therefore, we thoroughly crawl the website of every venture capital investor. Then, we count the occurrences of keywords, such as “biotech” or “life sciences”. Thereby, we can offer lists of perfectly matching investors for verticals such as biotech, agtech, travel or cleantech. You can find – and easily download – all our focus lists on our portfolio page.

What’s the best way to get in touch with the VC investors?

Many of our customers ask us how they should get in touch with the VC firms to pitch their product. One way surely is to simply send out standardized emails or your pitch deck to all of them. In most cases the email addresses are included in the list, and when you send your pitch out to more than 2,500 firms there should be an answer. However, that’s not the way we would recommend. Our customers made their best experience using the list to carefully select investors, maybe buy our keyword-crawler based target lists and then selectively get in touch with the VC investors via LinkedIn. Always helpful are similar connections that can give you an intro, or also meeting the investors first-hand at real world events.

But, no matter how you get in touch with them: our list is a must-have for every company, startup and advisor that wants to build up an extensive and reliable internal startup investor database.

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