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. It 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.

Sequoia Capital

Amidzad is a seed and early-stage investment firm focused on investing in emerging growth companies on the West Coast. They have over 50 years of combined entrepreneurial experience in building profitable, global enterprises from the ground up and over 25 years of combined investing experience in successful information technology and life science companies.  They are seed and early-stage investors with access to an extensive network of resources. Over the years, they have assembled a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist their portfolio as Entrepreneur Partners and Advisors. They partner with entrepreneurs and leverage the resources of their strong network to build successful companies.

Amidzad Partners

For 25 years, Signatures Capital founder Bobby Yazdani has been funding early stage technology businesses and collaborating with entrepreneurs and leadership teams to help build world-changing companies.  Signatures Capital has built relationships at major research universities, government laboratories and incubators, as well as cultivated an extensive network of entrepreneurs across the technology industry. Through its relationships, Signatures Capital gains specialized access that allows them to identify and capitalize on transformative technology themes before they become mainstream. Their goal is to partner with founders who recognize these shifts and then steward those boldly building the future.  Bobby began investing privately in 1989. In 2006, he formalized his activities by founding Signatures Capital.

Signatures Capital

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that provides funding and mentorship to early-stage companies. It offers a program where startups receive guidance from experienced entrepreneurs and investors. The organization helps founders in their business models and develop their products. Y Combinator serves industries such as technology, healthcare, and finance.

Y Combinator

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 business.  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.

Accel

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm which helps entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

Index Ventures

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

Goldman Sachs

Glynn Capital Management focuses on investing in leading private and public technology growth companies. Glynn Capital Management seeks to be long-term investors in a limited number of excellent companies with management teams, sustainable business models, and long-term growth potential.

Glynn Capital Management

SV Angel is 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.

SV Angel

Valiant Capital Management is a $2.7 billion global long/short equity hedge fund founded by Christopher R. Hansen in March 2008. Prior to that, Christopher Hansen was a Managing Director of Blue Ridge Capital from 2001 to January 2008. Mr. Hansen is the President and portfolio manager of Valiant and is supported by six junior partners who serve as senior analysts.

Valiant Capital Partners

RIT Capital Partners plc is an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange with net assets of some £1.9 billion. It is chaired by Lord Rothschild, whose family interests retain a significant holding. For 2011 it won the Best Large Trust award from the Investment Trust Journal, for its outstanding performance.

RIT Capital Partners

The mission of AF Square is to discover companies whose business model disrupts the status quo.  We seek partnerships with companies that will benefit from our decades of experience and connections in a wide array of industries -- from Entertainment to Technology to Finance to Sports to Politics.  AF Square, partnered with [Atom Factory](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/atom-factory) provides an extra boost of expertise and counsel to help companies reach key people, reach more customers, and reach new goals.

AFSquare

IVP turns breakout companies into enduring market leaders. With a 40-year record of driving growth and 130+ IPOs, we’ve partnered with over 400 companies including Amplitude, Brex, Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Discord, Klarna, Slack, Snap, and Twitter. As trusted allies, IVP helps founders and CEOs meet the challenge of leading a rapidly growing company. Its proven system bolsters functions including those that are sometimes overlooked and partners serve as trusted allies to companies seeking to realize their full potential.

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY). It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Greylock

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for its commitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion. Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Benchmark

BlackRock is an investment management company that provides its services to a diverse range of clients, including institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors. The firm operates as a global asset manager, overseeing and advising on a wide array of investment portfolios. In addition to its role as an investment manager, BlackRock is also known for its technological innovations and solutions that support various aspects of the financial industry. The company's multifaceted approach encompasses investment management, financial technology, and serving a broad spectrum of clients in the financial ecosystem.

BlackRock

Morgan Stanley, from the number of their offices and employees to the experience of their management and the quality of their financial results, the facts about Morgan Stanley tell an impressive story.  Morgan Stanley and its people have helped redefine the meaning of financial services. The firm has continually broken new ground in advising its clients on strategic transactions, pioneering the global expansion of finance and capital markets, and providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.  Morgan Stanley maintained comprehensive corporate governance guidelines for years before corporate governance became headline news.

Morgan Stanley

T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm dedicated to funding technology startups. The firm serves individuals, financial intermediaries, and institutions and offers a full range of investment strategies across a broad spectrum: debt, equities, and private equities.

T. Rowe Price

Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.

Slow Ventures

QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets. The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angel investors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies. Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis. The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.

QueensBridge Venture Partners

Aurum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in all asset classes across the capital structure in the public and private markets. The firm is committed to fostering the development of innovative startups, investing in groundbreaking ideas, and offering valuable support to entrepreneurs.

Aurum Partners

Innovation Department builds next-generation wellness companies hands-on, from the ground up. Our team of brand strategists, marketers, operators and builders are obsessed with reducing the time to product-market fit and creating repeatable success for the launch of early-stage businesses.  The Innovation Department family of brands includes WellPath, Finn, DojoMojo and our newest brand, Grummies. We’ve also invested in exceptional companies including Pinterest, Dropbox, Lyft, ClassPass, Daily Harvest, Databricks, DigitalOcean and hims.

Innovation Department

Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works.  they’ve invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world's tenacious enterprise software companies  Salesforce Ventures leverages decades of expertise in the cloud and long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth.

Salesforce Ventures

Green Bay Ventures (''GBV'') is a San Francisco based venture capital firm. The Firm is led by C. Richard ''Dick'' Kramlich and Anthony Schiller, who co-own and co-manage the Firm. Since 2012, Dick and Anthony have originated and made investments in world-class companies including Lyft, Dropbox, Xiaomi, MuleSoft, Databricks, Spotify, TransferWise, and DocuSign plus other leading early-stage venture capital deals. Dick and Anthony have designed GBV to build on the same instinct and vision which helped Dick and the firm he co-founded, NEA, pioneer investment in and commercialization of Ethernet (3Com), high capacity networking (Juniper Networks), balloon angioplasty (Advanced Cardiovascular), web-based remittances (Xoom) and graphics processing (Silicon Graphics) — but at a scale where the team can focus on a small number of high conviction opportunities and support a select group of visionary entrepreneurs working to create breakthrough technologies and transform industries. The Firm’s existing investors include some of the world’s most prominent families, top-tier venture capital investors, entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley CEOs whose active engagement with portfolio companies provides deep domain expertise and direct access to target markets.  GBV believes that by leveraging the networks and businesses of the Firm’s investors, its portfolio companies gain an advantage — helping the growth of their businesses and the deployment of their technologies.

Green Bay Ventures

Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned with a fundamental shift: venture-backed companies stay private longer. As a result, private companies need both primary capital to continue their growth trajectory and transitional capital to provide liquidity to early investors, current and former employees, and other sellers. Positioned at the crux of this liquidity access challenge, G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle using a fundamentally different approach than traditional VCs. The company invests in companies that challenge the status quo and demonstrate a clear path to superior returns, partnering with world-class entrepreneurs tackling big problems. G Squared funds have invested in household names such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest, and Spotify, as well as in the next generation of disruptors, including Asana, Blend, Bolt, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast, and Turo.

G Squared

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Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

Onna is a data management platform that enables organizations to extract value from unstructured data across various cloud-based workplace applications. The company's software solution connects to collaboration tools like Slack, Teams, Zendesk, and other next-generation digital records, allowing users to centralize, search, and act on data from multiple sources in a unified platform. Onna's capabilities include an extensive library of pre-built, no-code connectors that tap into complex data sources, providing users with the ability to gather, analyze, and manage enterprise data.
Onna's technology plays a crucial role in eDiscovery processes, enabling legal teams to collect data from various sources for litigation purposes. In May 2024, Onna was acquired by Reveal, a leading provider of AI-powered eDiscovery, review, and investigations solutions. This strategic acquisition aimed to enhance Reveal's end-to-end eDiscovery platform by integrating Onna's advanced data connection software and actionable tools into its ecosystem.
In March 2022, Onna introduced the eDiscovery In-place Preservation feature, allowing users to deploy data preservation in real-time across content, communication, and collaboration applications from a single action within the Onna platform. This feature streamlined the legal hold process, improving efficiency and reducing the risk associated with preserving data across multiple applications.

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

BetterCloud is a leading provider of SaaS Management Platform (SMP) solutions. Its platform enables IT professionals to streamline and automate critical tasks related to SaaS access and day-to-day operations. The company offers a no-code workflow builder that allows users to configure automations for employee onboarding, offboarding, and other processes. BetterCloud's platform centralizes the management of user permissions and access across SaaS applications, providing capabilities like bulk or automated admin access changes. It also helps identify underutilized resources and prevent overlap in subscriptions, driving spending efficiency.

Ozone develops an AI-powered video editing platform that allows users to collaborate remotely. It also enables editing high-definition footage, creating video mockups in seconds, color-correcting footage with a pinch of a color wheel, and seeing what the end result will look like before exporting it.

BetterCloud is the market leader for SaaS Operations. With SaaS adoption growing 38% YoY, an average IT team is now responsible for managing and securing 110+ SaaS applications. Existing solutions are not designed to handle aggressive SaaS sprawl. By automating critical work like user lifecycle management and data protection, BetterCloud's 1000's of customers enjoy greater employee productivity and more secure IT environments. With unrivaled SaaS expertise and a powerful integration library, BetterCloud’s SaaS Management Platform typically enables true ''Zero Touch'' SaaS operations in less than 2 months.

For organizations, knowledge is power. Onna accelerates the discovery of knowledge, enabling businesses to gain valuable insights from the ever-growing amount of fragmented information that exists across the vast number of collaboration, communication and content applications. By connecting information silos, organizations can unify, protect, search, and build on top of their proprietary knowledge. With Onna, organizations save time and money, reduce risk, and use knowledge to be more competitive. Onna’s Knowledge Integration Platform connects to Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Confluence, Dropbox, Zoom and many others, to enhance activities like eDiscovery, information governance, knowledge management, and identifying private and sensitive data sharing. With teams across North America and Europe, Onna supports some of the world’s leading companies, including Dropbox, Electronic Arts, Lyft, Better, Carvana, and NewsCorp. Onna has raised more than $50M from investors, including Atomico, Dawn Capital, Dropbox, and Slack Fund.

In residence at JPMorgan Chase with >$10 million in backing from Zuckerberg Ventures, Fathom Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB); senior execs from Apple, Facebook, and Goldman Sachs; and a Silicon Valley team of machine learning and enterprise EdTech innovators from Google, the NSA and CIA, Carnegie Mellon, and Goldman, Volley (volley.com) is on mission to synthesize the world’s enterprise knowledge. The platform offers autonomous knowledge management and learning technologies for the enterprise, used in the Fortune 100 for training in cybersecurity, operational risk management, BPM, anti-fraud, corporate knowledge, sales enablement, and more. With Volley, firms accelerate time-to-expertise by automatically generating intelligent “microlearning” or ''microbriefing'' experiences personalized to employees or customers while pinpointing hidden knowledge gaps. Volley is the first such member of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research and a private sector advisor to the U.S. Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. Dropbox is to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working.

<div> Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX) is a cloud storage and file synchronization service founded in 2007. The company allows users to store files in the cloud, sync them across devices, and share them easily with others. Dropbox offers both personal and business plans. Its free Basic plan provides 2GB of storage, while paid plans offer up to 3TB for individuals and unlimited storage for business teams. Key features include: <ul> <li> File synchronization across devices </li> <li> File sharing and collaboration tools </li> <li> Smart Sync to save hard drive space </li> <li> Integration with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace </li> <li> Version history and file recovery </li> <li> Two-factor authentication for security </li> </ul> The Dropbox mobile app is available for iOS and Android, allowing users to automatically back up photos and access files on the go. Dropbox also offers a desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. For businesses, Dropbox provides team collaboration features, centralized administration, and advanced security controls. The Dropbox Business plan starts at USD 15 per user per month for 5TB of shared storage. As of 2024, Dropbox has over 700 million registered users globally. Dropbox uses 256-bit AES encryption for files at rest and SSL/TLS for data in transit. The company continues to innovate with features like Dropbox Paper for collaborative documents and Dropbox Replay for video collaboration. </div>

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The tools that power remote work are define the next generation of enterprise software.

Remote Work Tools

Platforms that provide virtual workspaces using spatial technology to combine a variety of productivity and collaboration tools in a single space.

Platforms that provide standalone presentation software, prototyping and web development software, templates, and design workspaces.

Platforms that facilitate task delegation and tracking with board, timeline, and kanban style views.

Platforms that provide standalone video communication tools and complementary products such as interactive interfaces, presentation features, and transcription software.

Platforms that offer chat and email-based collaborative tools.

Tools for streamlining or improving one or more aspects of contractual agreements

Contract Management Tools

Platforms that provide an "all-in-one" contract management solution, providing a variety of functions across the CLM system

Platforms that provide specialized contract management (procurement, sales etc.) solutions, which include terms and conditions that are industry-specific

Tools that allow users to put their signature on digital contracts with multiple authentication and certifications, providing a safe and secure electronic record

Platforms that use AI-powered tools to identify potential breaches, entitlements, obligations, and changes in conditions to ensure that agreements are in compliance throughout the life cycle of the contract

Platforms that use GenAI in contract management streamline drafting, review and negotiation by automating document creation, improving efficiency and compliance

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 <li>Dropbox, Inc. (DBX) and NVIDIA (NVDA) announced a collaboration to enhance knowledge work and productivity for Dropbox customers through the integration of AI capabilities.</li>
 <li>The collaboration aims to expand Dropbox's AI functionality using NVIDIA's AI foundry, which includes NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, AI Enterprise software, and accelerated computing.</li>
 <li>Dropbox plans to utilize NVIDIA's technology to improve AI-powered product experiences, including Dropbox Dash (universal search) and Dropbox AI (file summarization and questions).</li>
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