Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

TSVC, formerly TEEC Angel Fund, is a deep technology-focused venture capital firm. The company prides itself on its empathy for strategic investments and partnerships. Part of what fulfills us about raising great companies is experiencing growing pains together and understanding the ups and downs of everyday startup life.  ‍ The company believes that today's visionaries will make tomorrow's reality. The company believes when companies choose to work with TSCV, they choose a team of veteran entrepreneurs with deep technology backgrounds and investment experience. TSCV believes that globalization will be more important in an interconnected world than ever, and it stands at the forefront of that transformation. TSCV turns dream ventures into reality and thrives as it works toward the common goal of making the world a better place through technology.

TSVC

TiE Angels was launched in July 2010. It is an angel investment group formed by Charter Members of TiE Silicon Valley. The mission of TiE Angels is to support top-tier emerging companies with early stage investment and support.  Since founding TiE Angels in Silicon Valley, the forum has been launched at TiE chapters in other cities including Boston, New York City, Seattle, Portland, and Atlanta.

TiE Angels

OneValley supports thousands of innovators through our Innovation Centers, Passport OS for Organizations, and OneValley Passport, the world's most comprehensive online innovation platform for founders

OneValley

We focus on the Future of Work and invest in people-first, data-driven, BIG ideas that transform how we work today.

VITALIZE Venture Capital

f7 Ventures is a seed investment fund comprised of female operators with more than 20 years of experience in the fastest-growing technology companies in Silicon Valley. It invests in and helps bold founders grow and scale at their earliest stages.

f7 Ventures

Venture Capital firm investing in early stage startups founded by passionate entrepreneurs building emerging technology solutions to digitize, disrupt and optimize traditional business models across various non-digital industry verticals.

Dragon Capital

Exceptional Capital is an investor in B2B enterprise software at pre-seed and seed stages.

Exceptional Capital

Santa Clara Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Santa Clara Ventures

Pareto Holdings is an early-stage investment vehicle founded by Jon Oringer and Edward Lando. We execute on dozens of investments per month and are often the first to back exceptional entrepreneurs. We are industry and geography agnostic, and specialize in pre-seeding companies. We’ve made 500+ investments to date. Unlike others, we only invest our own money with a small and mighty team around the world.

Pareto Holdings

Firsthand Alliance is an early-stage VC backed by Salesforce mafia. We invest in exceptional founders building the future of software.

Firsthand Alliance

CloudEagle.ai

CloudEagle.ai helps IT, security & Procurement teams manage, govern & renew all their SaaS apps from one single platform. With CloudEagle.ai, enterprises like RingCentral, Shiji, Recroom make SaaS management & governance a breeze & save 10-30% on their software spend.  Using 500+ direct connectors, customers get 100% visibility into all applications, licences, spend and vendors. Using no code slack-enabled workflows, IT & security teams streamline employee onboarding/offboarding, access reviews, licence harvesting and renewals. Leveraging detailed usage insights and benchmarking data, customers negotiate better with vendors & optimize tech stack. Our platform processed over $2bn and delivered over $150M in savings. Our industry-leading 30-minute onboarding ensures immediate governance & savings from day 1.

<div><p>CloudEagle offers a SaaS platform for software acquisition and cost optimization, as well as analytics for the finance, procurement, and IT departments.</p></div>

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

CloudEagle

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    CloudEagle offers a SaaS platform for software acquisition and cost optimization, as well as analytics for the finance, procurement, and IT departments.
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    G2 provides a SaaS spend management platform to reduce costs and eliminate waste for IT, Finance, and Procurement teams. It offers an integrated approach to recognize, analyze, and keep track of SaaS stacks, employee SaaS consumption, manage contracts and compliance, synchronize software requests, and gain insights and analytics.
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    Vendr (formerly Blissfully) offers a SaaS buying platform that leverages AI to find the best software to buy and manage the expanding stack in a single system of record for finance and procurement teams. The platform makes use of benchmarking data, SaaS buying experts, automated workflows and analytics and insights to streamline the purchase, renewal, and deal updates. 
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Vendr

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    BetterCloud offers a SaaS management solution, which it claims to be the market leader for SaaS operations, that aids enterprises in consolidating data protection and streamlining user lifecycle management. The platform features automated app discovery, app insights, automated workflows and user data. 
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BetterCloud

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    LeanIX provides an automated SaaS management system to help businesses reduce costs and boost productivity. The platform is designed to focus on tracking, managing, and benchmarking subscribed SaaS applications. 
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LeanIX

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    Flexera One offers an IT and cloud management software platform to improve app usability and cost effectiveness for enterprises. The platform allows analytics, insights, asset management, cloud application modernization, licensing use and compliance, and maximizing technological returns.
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Flexera One

Platforms for cataloging, tracking and benchmarking a firms existing SaaS stack and discovering and purchasing new solutions that are a better fit for the organization

Platforms that help identify potential securities vulnerabilities of a firm's SaaS stack and provide a solution to ensure compliance with regulations.

Platforms that help eliminate SaaS wastage and optimize costs by providing spending analysis reports, contract renewal planning, and vendor management.

Integrated product offerings that provide complete solutions covering the entire life cycle of SaaS usage. A number of firms also offer managed services such as price negotiations with vendors

Solutions in this industry focus on providing tools for firms to manage its SaaS subscriptions

Uses AI/ML to analyze a firms SaaS stack and ensure compliance with privacy standards

Provide greater visibility on the usage and spending on SaaS platforms

Growth in remote and hybrid work arrangements led to growth in cloud-based SaaS solutions

CloudEagle

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