First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies, including Uber, Square, and Warby Parker. Through custom-built software, incredible in-person experiences, and a host of other unique services, First Round helps tiny companies get big while constantly reimagining the role of venture capital. It offers a growing number of services and products to help founders build companies from scratch. First Round has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

First Round Capital

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control, entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible. Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Founder Collective

Next47 is a $1.2 billion independent, global venture firm backed by Siemens AG. We specialize in enterprise-focused businesses, make fast decisions and share deep conviction with the teams we invest in. We have the resources and the motivation to unleash maximum potential in every startup we work with. We leverage our own global footprint as well as the Siemens ecosystem that spans a broad set of industries across hundreds of countries and regions worldwide.

Next47

Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies. It specializes in the fields of finance, venture capital, and late-stage investment management.  It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Meritech Capital Partners

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

Silver Lake Waterman provides growth capital to late-stage growth companies in the technology-enabled industries. It manages approximately $75 billion in combined assets and is committed capital and a team of investment and operating professionals based in Menlo Park, New York, London, Hong Kong, Cupertino, and San Francisco. Silver Lake’s portfolio of investments collectively generates more than $180 billion of revenue annually and employs more than 400,000 people globally.

Silver Lake Waterman

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors and industries reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis currently manages over $2B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 40 companies valued at $1B+. More than 90 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public since the firm was founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006.

Felicis

Fifth Down primarily invests in early and growth stage companies within the technology and consumer sectors.

Fifth Down Capital

Friends & Family Capital is a venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs that transform big markets.  The firm’s founding partners helped scale Palantir to $20 Billion (CFO from 2011 to 2017) and jointly backed over 20 Unicorn startups.  Friends & Family Capital invests in business models that produce long-term and defensible compounding growth and cash flow.  Core investments include Airtable, Anduril, Facebook, Figure, Flexport, Gusto, Mosaic, Palantir, Robinhood, SpaceX, and Verkada. For more information, please see www.friendsandfamilycapital.com.

Friends & Family Capital

Linse Capital is a growth equity firm investing in technology companies in the transportation, energy, and logistics sectors. The company collaborates with firms that are advancing technology in areas such as electric vehicles, driverless vehicles, air mobility, robotics, warehouse automation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and space.

Linse Capital

MSD Partners is a firm that seeks to make investments that consistently generate attractive risk-adjusted returns over the long term. They help clients sustain and grow their businesses, manage their legacies, and create social impact.

MSD Partners

Section Partners provides creative financing solutions for stockholders of late-stage, venture-backed companies.

Section Partners

Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.

Quiet Capital

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-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups 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.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Alkeon Capital Management is a service that assists investors with their financial endeavors. Founded in 2001,  Alkeon Capital Management focuses on investing in people and innovation.

Alkeon Capital

Verkada

Verkada is a cloud-based B2B physical security platform company. Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace software, and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform. Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations real-time insight into what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations, and costly inefficiencies. Founded in 2016 with more than $360M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,700+ full-time employees, and 19,000+ customers across 83+ countries, including 47 companies in the Fortune 500.

<div><p>Verkada provides remote accessible security solutions to businesses and organizations, incorporating high-end hardware on cloud-based software, allowing them to manage smarter buildings. Driven by customer-focused collaboration and security at scale, Verkada offers the Command Platform, Security Cameras, Access Control devices, Sensors and Alarms enhanced by AI-powered analytics, proactive system alerts and automatic system updates. With offices in USA, Canada, Latin America, UK and Australia, Verkada serves Healthcare, Banks, Education, Retail, Manufacturing, Municipalities and Restaurant industries including business place security. Verkada is trusted by over 8,700 organizations worldwide, including industry leaders such as Acer, Equinox, SLCC, AmeriGas, Sunkist, BOSS, and Cloudflare.</p></div>

Technologies that automate and optimize building operations using data-driven insights.

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    Verkada provides remote accessible security solutions to businesses and organizations, incorporating high-end hardware on cloud-based software, allowing them to manage smarter buildings. Driven by customer-focused collaboration and security at scale, Verkada offers the Command Platform, Security Cameras, Access Control devices, Sensors and Alarms enhanced by AI-powered analytics, proactive system alerts and automatic system updates. With offices in USA, Canada, Latin America, UK and Australia, Verkada serves Healthcare, Banks, Education, Retail, Manufacturing, Municipalities and Restaurant industries including business place security. Verkada is trusted by over 8,700 organizations worldwide, including industry leaders such as Acer, Equinox, SLCC, AmeriGas, Sunkist, BOSS, and Cloudflare.
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    Cloudastructure provides cloud-based infrastructure solutions for building automation. The company’s surveillance video management system is designed and supported by technical resources drawn from five continents. The architecture of the platform is said to enable AI and computer vision for scalable, flexible, and cost-effective security. It also eliminates the resource-intensive management and data risks of on-premises solutions. Targeting industries such as real estate and property management, healthcare, hospitality, education, and cannabis, Cloudastructure provides cloud video surveillance, smart parking, remote guarding, and IoT cybersecurity. It enables motion and facial recognition/detection, anomaly detection, automatic license plate detection, object counting, advanced analytics, and is camera-agnostic.
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    Faceter is an intelligent software for smarter surveillance based on facial recognition and video stream real-time analysis, distributed as SaaS. Faceter’s computer vision surveillance technology is powered by the fog network. Faceter avoids the usage of immense computing power for video stream analysis through its decentralized network that implements fog computing, reducing the price of the product. With blockchain, FACE Token, fog computing, facial recognition, and data protection, Faceter performs big data video analyses in real time, extracting faces, objects, and events.
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    B-Secur provides ECG technology solutions to improve heart health and bring clarity to EKG interpretation with better data and deeper insights. Headquartered in Belfast, UK, B-Secur’s EKG Development Kit comprises a number of key elements to fast-track EKG development, such as electrode guides, electrode development test jig, EKG HW design guide, HeartKey Signal Analysis App, SW library of algorithms, SW guide and access to global experts. HeartKey 2.0 is a suite of EKG algorithms and analytics providing medical accuracy and efficiency through enhanced signal clarity and a reduction in EKG signal noise.
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    Privacy-focused access control system Blink Identity focuses on face recognition technology for personalized customer experiences and increased venue safety. The system identifies people at full walking speed in any lighting condition. A combination of hardware and proprietary biometric facial recognition software ensures accuracy, regardless of skin color, gender, or walking speed. It uses a biometric matching system with military-grade technology to identify people at full walking speed in any lighting condition. For companies, Blink integrates with standard frameworks and workflows, connecting to existing ticketing, CRM, POS, time and attendance, and security systems.
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Blink identity

Smart building tech includes reducing energy and water consumption through recycling

Smart buildings are a component of smart cities

Companies aim to provide sustainable solutions for energy and water usage

Smart building tech products can monitor energy consumption and occupancy and adjust usage accordingly

Certain functions, such as HVAC, can be personalized

Internet-enabled monitors and sensors optimize energy and water use and manage occupancy and security

Developers of smart security solutions including security cameras, sensors, alarms, and access control combined with cloud-based software, and providers of video surveillance-as-a-service and access control-as-a-service.

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