Kleiner Perkins is a 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 the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Kleiner Perkins

PJC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. The firm has invested in over 100 companies across North America including notable companies like Expensify, Nest, BlockFi, GetWell Network and Nexamp. PJC was founded in 2001 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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 the 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.

New Enterprise Associates

Novel TMT Ventures backs stellar teams building innovative products and services to improve consumer experiences and efficiencies in commerce, media and payment.

Novel TMT Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.  The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data.  Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companies since 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

Bain Capital Ventures

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

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven our strategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab. FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more; FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

FundersClub

Fuel Capital is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to being more than a source of capital - we want to be true confidantes to every founder in the Fuel family. We stand in our founder’s corner, not their kitchen. We leverage our resources, connections, experience, and expertise to carve a shortcut for them - so their energy is spent on building the future, instead of knocking on doors.  Fuel was founded in 2013 by Chris Howard. Leah Solivan, founder of TaskRabbit, joined as a General Partner in 2017.  We invests in consumer, business software and cloud/ infrastructure companies. With a strong track record - including investments in 8 unicorns (Convoy, Flexport, Figma, Pacaso, Lattice, Highspot, thredUP, and Weave), several recently acquired companies (CTRL-Labs - acquired by Facebook, CoreOS - acquired by RedHat, Nervana - acquired by Intel, Hightower - acquired by View the Space), as well as numerous up-and-coming companies - Fuel has rightfully earned the reputation of being one of Silicon Valley’s leading seed funds.

Fuel Capital

Blue Collective is a multi-strategy investment firm located in Brooklyn, NY. We believe phenomenal people build phenomenal businesses. We seek out, invest in, and support phenomenal people wherever and whoever they are.  We have 2 main strategies: 1) Early-Stage Venture Capital - focus on US companies raising Pre-Seed and Seed Rounds (the earlier the better). We are 100% category-agnostic and just interested in great founders 2) Later-Stage Buy-Out and Growth Equity - focus on global companies specifically in B2B SaaS. Looking for companies between 3-10 million ARR with a great product and looking to drive growth. If you are interested to chat with us, just email us at blue@bluecollective.com. Our job is to meet with interesting founders and operators - a cold email is as good as a warm one. Look forward to connecting!

Blue Collective

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Liquid 2 Ventures

Spark Capital is an early stage venture capital firm. We invest in phenomenal products we love and the creative humans behind them. We do things a little differently and aren't afraid of risk. Spark-backed companies include Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker, and tumblr. We know there are no playbooks or formulas for success and are here to help founders win their own way. We invest across all sectors and stages, and work out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York City.

Spark Capital

Peak State Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the future of work, PropTech, and digital healthcare. It consists of entrepreneurs, operators, advisors, and investors with multiple successful exits looking for future category leaders. The firm will work with seed-stage entrepreneurs to bring a product to market and support a company through Series A+ rounds and later stages of growth and expansion.  The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Peak State Ventures

Wildcat Capital Management was founded in 2011 by Len Potter with the purpose of managing capital for the founding partner of TPG Capital, David Bonderman. The firm manages assets for 16 underlying vehicles and a total of 42 individuals including David’s family and friends. The firm is a registered investment advisor, and has $1,031,887,715 in assets under management. Wildcat has offices in Texas and New York.

Wildcat Capital Management

Formerly known as Evolution Media, Cobalt Capital is a multi-stage investment firm that partners with exceptional teams to build the next generation of consumer, technology, content, and lifestyle businesses to help them scale their vision. Cobalt invests in rising technology companies that impact culture and uses its deep domain expertise and relationships to accelerate the growth of its portfolio companies while helping them reshape and disrupt their industries.

Cobalt Capital

Feather

Feather provides furniture and home decor rental service The company helps city dwellers to furnish their homes without spending a fortune or hurting the planet in the process. Members of Feather have access to high-quality furniture at a low monthly price with the option to add, swap, buy, or return when life or tastes change. Furniture is delivered and assembled for free within a week. Feather’s circular approach reduces the environmental impact that furniture waste has on the planet by keeping furniture in homes and out of landfills.

<div><p>Feather is a web-based furniture rental startup that manufactures and designs different types of furniture and home decor for rent. The company offers furniture for a wide span of categories including Living Room, Bedroom, Dining, Home Office, Decor, Lighting, and Outdoor. Customers can choose from 200+ items including decor, art, and rugs before deciding whether they want to rent or buy. The company would deliver and assemble their furniture once the customers place their order. Feather is a privately held company.</p></div>

Technology to customize and procure furniture

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    Feather is a web-based furniture rental startup that manufactures and designs different types of furniture and home decor for rent. The company offers furniture for a wide span of categories including Living Room, Bedroom, Dining, Home Office, Decor, Lighting, and Outdoor. Customers can choose from 200+ items including decor, art, and rugs before deciding whether they want to rent or buy. The company would deliver and assemble their furniture once the customers place their order. Feather is a privately held company.
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    Casper is a sleep startup company that produces and sells mattresses and other sleep products directly to customers, toward eliminating commission-driven prices. The types of mattresses that it sells include Original, Original Hybrid, Nova Hybrid, Wave Hybrid, and Wave Hybrid Snow. The company also sells pillows, bedding, bed frames, adjustable bed frames, sheets, duvets, weighted blankets, glow lights, and dog beds. It has introduced new ways to shop across select Casper retail stores, including Virtual Appointments, E-Zzz Pickup, and Private Shopping. Casper is a public company.
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    MADE is a virtual shopping platform that provides designer furniture directly to customers without any third-party interference. It sells its products through its website. The company works with independent designers and makers to create designer pieces. It specializes in a range of products such as sofas, chairs, tables, storage, and beds. The company also offers lighting products, textiles, decor, garden essentials, and kitchen and lifestyle products. MADE is a privately held company with its headquarters in the UK. 
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    Simba Sleep is an e-commerce company that specializes in the production of mattresses. The company designs and makes all its mattresses in the UK. The company’s team of scientists is said to have studied profile data from millions of sleeps to curate mattresses suitable for every body type and sleep style. Apart from mattresses, the company sells other sleep products such as duvets, toppers, mattress protectors, fitted sheets, and bed linen. Simba Sleep is a private company with its headquarters in the UK.
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    Havenly is an interior design company that runs an online e-commerce platform. It specializes in Furniture, Decor & Pillows, Rugs, and Lighting. The company is said to provide a personal shopping list with hand-picked selections from hundreds of brands and with its team managing the entire order. The company has a network of vetted interior designers who create custom visual designs based on the client’s personal choices. Decorative accessories that Havenly offers include Art, Mirrors, Bedding & Bath, Wallpaper, Throw Pillows, Blankets & Throws, and Vases & Botanicals. Havenly is a private company.
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    GAIA is a furniture company that sells home products and design accessories directly to customers through its e-commerce platform. The company specializes in Sofas, Chairs, Mattresses, Tables, Beds, Storage, Lamps, and Accessories. It mainly designs modern and functional pieces to fit urban lifestyles. GAIA also has external designers who complement its catalog. Design styles that clients can choose vary from Industrial and Retro to Nordic and Contemporary. GAIA is a privately held company and also has an offline store that customers can visit.
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GAIA

Customized furniture based on specifications selected on the website by the customer or virtual designs

IoT-connected furniture typically with the option of control through a mobile app

Furniture rental platforms that offer furniture on subscription basis or rent-to-own basis

Some companies offer IoT-connected furniture with the option of control through a mobile app

Includes companies that offer furniture for a monthly rental, offered on a subscription basis or rent-to-own basis

Feather

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