Best VCs for Data

#2Nic Carter

Partner

Castle Island Ventures

Bitcoin infrastructure, stablecoins, and crypto data analytics. Known for Bitcoin advocacy and UTXO research.

1 deals

$1M-$100M+ (leads a16z's $1.25B+ infrastructure fund)

#3Martin Casado

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's infrastructure practice and is one of Silicon Valley's most technically credible VCs, having built VMware NSX and pioneered software-defined networking. Invests 'from markets in' rather t

No Lucas-specific check range is public. A current OpenVC search profile lists Kosmos at $100K–$1M, while Kosmos's own live material confirms Seed/Pre-Seed as its co-building focus but publishes no check size. Treat $100K–$1M as third-party firm guidance only; confirm allocation, instrument, ownership and decision-maker directly with Lucas and the team.

#4Lucas Raymond (LTR)

Venture Associate

Kosmos Ventures

Lucas looks for early, non-consensus crypto opportunities through an active-user and market-structure lens. He believes decentralized markets can democratize finance and that money increasingly follow

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#5Richard Chen

Founder & Solo GP

Varrock VC

Richard backs concentrated, contrarian pre-seed and seed bets in the future of finance. For crypto-native products, he looks for category creation, missionary founders, power-user retention and contin

$600K–$900K at pre-seed and seed, published on Varrock's live website. The fund targets a small, concentrated portfolio, commonly 0–1 new investment per quarter, to maintain ownership and hands-on capacity rather than spray and pray.

No Nataly-specific check size is public. Polymorphic's verified OpenVC-style profile lists firm-level initial bands spanning $250K–$3M, says it can lead, and covers pre-seed through Series B. Treat these as firm guidance rather than Nataly's authority; confirm the relevant partner, current allocation, stage and ownership target after intake.

#6Nataly Laktionova

Marketing, Portfolio Development

Polymorphic Capital

Nataly's Polymorphic work sits at the application and portfolio-development edge: finding and supporting products that use web3 infrastructure to transform markets beyond crypto-native users, particul

Paradigm backs companies from first check through public markets, but neither the firm nor Ricardo publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals and a historical firm-wide range are not treated as personal allocation evidence.

#7Ricardo de Arruda

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Ricardo uses large-scale onchain data to distinguish real crypto adoption from activity manufactured by incentives or sybils. He focuses on new ecosystems, user acquisition and retention, token distri

No personal check range or investment authority is published for Storm. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Storm's official remit is frontier data-science and data-engineering research, not a stated personal allocation range.

#8Storm Slivkoff

Research Partner

Paradigm

Storm evaluates decentralized systems through high-resolution data, reproducible measurement, and open tooling. His work spans Ethereum state and history growth, node performance, market-volume accoun

ResearchTechnical DiligencePortfolio Support

#9Brad Burnham

Co-Founder and Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incen

USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks from the earliest stages onward. It does not publish Brad's personal range or authority; investments are discussed by the full partnership and decided collectively without a vote.

Neither Kleiner Perkins nor Ted publishes a personal check range on the cited pages. His Kleiner record spans early-stage and growth companies, but portfolio round sizes and Ballistic's fund sizes do not establish his individual Kleiner check authority.

#10Ted Schlein

Partner and Advisor

Kleiner Perkins

Ted is an operator-investor focused on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure across company formation, early-stage investment, scaling, and public-sector adoption. His Kleiner portfolio spans ap

No personal equity check-size range is published. Customer Value financings are bespoke, performance-linked capital structures and disclosed company packages should not be generalized into a personal minimum or maximum.

#11Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

General Catalyst

Pranav invests through a capital-allocation lens: separate the predictable customer-acquisition engine of a product-market-fit company from its higher-risk product and operating company, then finance

GrowthLate StageEndurance

#12Nassim Olive

Co-Founder & General Partner

Eterna Capital

Nassim invests where decentralized protocols, programmable value layers and AI-native infrastructure converge to reshape the internet. His work connects crypto's ownership and market primitives to bro

$250K–$1M indicated by current investor directories, with roughly $500K described as a sweet spot. Eterna's own live site confirms a global, early-stage mandate but does not publish a check range, so founders should verify current size, reserves, instrument and lead appetite directly. Eterna has publicly co-led at least one pre-seed round (Stoffel Labs).

No portfolio-company check range was disclosed. The announced 2023 YGG Ventures Fund I targeted $75M and a $500K minimum LP commitment, but the latter is an LP subscription minimum—not a startup check size—and current fund deployment status is not publicly confirmed.

#13Beryl Li

Director / Investment Committee

YGG Ventures

Beryl's investment role was framed around early-stage token and equity investments in Web3 game studios and the infrastructure needed for the sector to grow. Her broader operating thesis begins with c

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#14Alex Morgan

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Alex invests where computation, biology, and healthcare converge. His scientific and clinical background supports a systems view of biomarker discovery, therapeutics, diagnostics, personalized medicin

No personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund supports science and business-model experiments, historically often with roughly $1M–$2M according to a 2020 firm interview, while its Main Fund covers early through later stages. These are firm-level references, not Alex's authority.

IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#15Stanko Nedic

Partner

V3V Ventures

Stanko invests in early-stage software, digital infrastructure and emerging technology, with a strong Web3 focus and an engineer's bias toward difficult, foundational systems. His current public filte

No Stanko-specific check range is public. A current third-party V3V profile reports a firm-level typical range of $100K–$1M at pre-seed/seed, while public round databases describe the larger rounds V3V joins rather than its own checks. Treat $100K–$1M as directional and confirm instrument, allocation and follow-on capacity directly.

Pre-seedSeedSelective later follow-on

#16Jehan Chu

Founder & Managing Partner

Kenetic Capital

Jehan treats blockchain as the next internet and backs the data, infrastructure, enterprise, trading and financial systems that can anchor a natively digital economy. He underwrites the founders first

No reliable public standard ticket or Jehan-specific approval range was found. Kenetic invests its family-office capital in direct blockchain companies, tokens and other crypto funds, and its published site emphasizes Series A/B equity; historical and interview evidence also shows seed, token and incubation activity. Ask directly rather than inferring a check from round size.

Not applicable to Matt's finance-operations role. He has no published personal investment authority or check size. Founder materials should be sent to CoinFund's projects address, while finance, administration or investor requests should follow the relevant official channel.

#17Matt Manley

Senior Finance Associate

CoinFund

Matt's operating lens joins audit discipline with crypto-native middle-office experience: substantiate data completeness and accuracy, turn raw records into understandable reporting, automate repeatab

Fund finance operationsMiddle-office reportingProcess automation

#18Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Leigh Marie backs AI infrastructure and applications, with a particular eye for the systems that close the gap between frontier-model capability and reliable, mission-critical use. Her portfolio inclu

No verified personal check range or standard firm-wide range is published. Her official portfolio spans early and growth investments; disclosed company rounds are not personal allocation limits.

No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from early-stage venture through growth, and Michael's disclosed financings span several stages; those total round sizes are not personal or standard check sizes.

#19Michael Robinson

Partner, Head of Investment Team

Craft Ventures

Michael invests across venture and growth with a focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI applications. His operating framework prizes durable revenue, efficient growth, healthy unit economics,

Series ASeries BSeries C

#20Jerry Chen

General Partner

Greylock Partners

Coined the 'Systems of Intelligence' framework in his landmark 2017 blog post 'The New Moats' — the idea that AI and data create competitive advantages by sitting between systems of record (databases)

$500K-$200M (sweet spot ~$25M)

No personal check-size range is published. USV invests at the earliest stages and supports companies throughout their journey; investment decisions are made collaboratively by discussion rather than individual vote.

#21Nick Grossman

Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Nick's work connects open, decentralized systems with the infrastructure needed for the next computing cycle. His current 'Rebel Alliance' thesis argues that agentic AI will favor a modular ecosystem

No reliable personal check range or individual signing authority is public. Jin Ming Neo is a research associate, so founders should treat HashKey Capital's fund strategy—not a directory estimate—as the relevant context and confirm stage, allocation, lead role, ownership, token/equity structure, and decision process with the investment team.

#22Jin Ming Neo

Sr. Investment Research Associate

HashKey Capital

Jin Ming Neo contributes to broad, research-led sector evaluation across Web3. HashKey's coauthored 1H 2024 analysis favors teams with defined technical advantages, credible go-to-market, or proven ex

No verified personal check-size range is published. HashKey Capital operates multiple venture, liquid, and multi-strategy vehicles; fund size and disclosed portfolio rounds should not be converted into Yerui's individual authority.

#23Yerui Zhang

Investment Director

HashKey Capital

Yerui is a HashKey investment director with documented fund-committee responsibility and a contributor to the firm's technical sector research. The research evaluates infrastructure and applications a

Not applicable. Helen is no longer at AirTree and her historical mandate was finance and operations, not a personal Web3 check-writing practice. Current founders should use AirTree's current investment team and published fund channels; operational peers should treat her record as experience, not present firm authority.

#24Helen Norton

Former Partner, Finance & Operations (departed April 2026)

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Helen's contribution was building an institutional venture platform around the investors and founders: fund finance, governance, compliance, systems, LP relationships, organization and shared learning

Venture-firm formation and scalingFund finance and governanceLimited-partner and investor relations

#25Aadharsh Pannirselvam

Investor

Archetype

Aadharsh invests where applied cryptography makes useful software private, programmable and verifiable, and where decentralized AI can coordinate agents, data and computation without recreating centra

No person-specific or current firm check size is publicly disclosed. Archetype describes itself as an early-stage fund and its historical firm overview says it partners from first check through Series A; founders should confirm round fit directly rather than rely on directory estimates.

No personal check-size range is published. Lux's USD 7B under management and disclosed company rounds are not Grace's personal range; she is explicitly described as a first-check and early investor.

#26Grace Isford

Partner

Lux Capital

Grace backs computational-science companies where software or AI transforms difficult physical, institutional, or technical systems. She looks for first-check opportunities in infrastructure and appli

Coulter has publicly said UDHC writes checks from pre-seed through Series A. A verified OpenVC firm profile lists $50K–$2M as UDHC's first-check range and says the firm sometimes leads; treat that as directory-level firm guidance rather than a Coulter-specific commitment, and confirm current size and ownership directly.

#27Coulter Mulligan

Partner, Marketing & Communications

UDHC

Coulter works with UDHC's early-stage onchain-finance portfolio, applying a marketing and communications lens to companies that can connect crypto-native infrastructure with the traditional financial

CV VC publicly invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies meeting its MVP and initial-traction criteria. No personal check-size authority is published for Nicolas.

#28Nicolas Kiep

Investment Associate

CV VC

Nicolas evaluates pre-seed and seed companies within CV VC's current frontier-technology mandate: AI-native automation, intelligent B2B systems, and programmable digital finance, with blockchain used

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Brandon invests at both early and growth stages; disclosed financing rounds, such as Hugging Face's $15M Series A, are total rounds and not his personal allocation range.

#29Brandon Reeves

Partner

Lux Capital

Brandon backs technical platforms and applications across software, AI, defense, and manufacturing. A recurring theme is open or developer-led infrastructure that turns frontier capability into produc

Faction does not publish a standard check range or Tim's personal authority. The official mandate is Seed and Series A, across equity and tokens; public financing sizes are not Faction check sizes.

#30Tim Khoury

Deal Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Tim is a crypto-native early-stage investor with an explicit interest at the intersection of crypto and AI. His WeatherXM work shows a demand-first DePIN lens: token incentives can coordinate distribu

No current investor check size applies: Chad says he left early-stage investing to build at PrismaX. Historical third-party estimates for Symbolic must not be treated as current personal authority. Financing pitches should go to Symbolic's live team; robotics commercial proposals should be framed for PrismaX.

#31Chad Liu

Former Investor, Symbolic Capital; Founding GTM, PrismaX

Symbolic Capital

Chad's historical investment work mapped decentralized AI across data, models, agents, compute, training and inference. His current operator thesis narrows to physical AI's deployment bottleneck: foun

Historical Pre-SeedHistorical SeedHistorical Series A

#32Fanis Tsarouchis

Senior Principal

Big Pi Ventures

Fanis supports European technology scale-ups moving toward market leadership with growth capital plus operational and financial expertise. His background in TMT investment banking and as FlexCar's fin

Growth-fund level: Big Pi Growth I states that it leads with €7M–€20M+ per company. Big Pi's overall platform spans €0.5M–€30M across funds. Neither range is published as Fanis's personal allocation authority.

Series BSeries CGrowth Equity

#33Jonathan Rotbard

Investor

CoinFund

Jonathan studies how better on-chain financial and data rails enable agents, vaults and new markets. His thesis work connects composable financial infrastructure to automated commerce, and programmabl

No personal check range is disclosed. CoinFund's live profile explicitly says there are no investments led by Jonathan yet, while crediting him with establishing vault and new-markets theses and contributing to Irys research; do not present him as an independently proven deal lead.

No personal check range or signing authority is published. Lucas participates across early and growth investments; disclosed company financings should not be treated as his personal range.

#34Lucas Oliveira

Principal

Kleiner Perkins

Lucas invests in enterprise software and cybersecurity across early and growth stages. His portfolio connects foundation models, data and enterprise AI, open-source software security, managed security

Not publicly disclosed. Northzone states that the firm invests from Seed through Growth and can remain a partner through pre-IPO; Wendy's current profile labels her personal focus as Early and says she likes to work with founders from as early as seed.

#35Wendy Xiao

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Wendy backs companies that change consumer behavior and expand the economic pie by capturing neglected externalities. She studies technology through people and behavior change, looking for a valuable

No personal check-size range is published. Molly invests through Northzone across early and growth stages; disclosed rounds such as GovDash's $10M Series A are total financings, not her personal check range.

#36Molly Alter

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Molly backs vertical SaaS and AI across early and growth stages, with a transatlantic view of scaling B2B software. Her Northzone portfolio applies AI to rigorous, high-value workflows in government c

Firm-wide: Big Pi publishes €0.5M–€30M equity tickets across early-stage and growth funds; its dedicated Growth I strategy leads €7M–€20M+ investments. The site does not publish Nick's personal range, so stage and fund fit must be confirmed per opportunity.

#37Nick Kalliagkopoulos

Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Nick sees biology and robotics as major technology waves and looks for companies using high-quality real-world data, deep technical capability, and customer evidence to automate tasks previously consi

Norrsken VC publicly states €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. It is a firm-level range, not evidence of Beata's personal signing authority.

#38Beata Enwall

Investment Manager

Norrsken Impact Fund

Beata sources impact-driven technology across the Nordics and France, with declared interests in climate, energy and women's health. Her public 2026 outlook extends that lens to differentiated data fo

#39Jake Brukhman

Founder & CEO

CoinFund

Web3 infrastructure, data markets, and token-based business models.

Firm-wide: Big Pi publishes equity tickets of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds. The current site does not publish Marco's personal range, so the platform range should not be treated as a standard partner check.

#40Marco Veremis

Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Marco backs exceptional teams with Greek or Southeast European leverage that can become global technology leaders. His operator history and portfolio favor products with technology at the core, defens

Electric Capital publicly advertises firm-level checks of $1M–$15M+ from pre-seed through Series A. No personal range or unilateral authority is disclosed for Geoff, so that firm range should be treated as routing context rather than his individual ticket.

#41Geoff YuHasker

Investor

Electric Capital

Geoff brings mechanism design, computational finance and systems engineering to frontier-technology investing. His work on ad auctions, algorithmic trading, rates derivatives and the SCION internet ar

No personal check-size range is published. Pascual invests at early stage through Northzone; founders should confirm current round fit directly and should not infer his allocation from portfolio-company financing totals.

#42Pascual Cortes-Monroy

Principal

Northzone (Web3)

Pascual focuses on early-stage AI, fintech, healthcare, and vertical SaaS, with particular interest in products that use growing data availability and improved computation to transform an industry. Hi

No verified personal check-size range is published. CoinFund attributes pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals to Einar, but disclosed round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

#43Einar Braathen

Partner

CoinFund

Einar backs foundational technology that decentralizes scarce AI resources or rebuilds financial rails onchain. His portfolio connects open compute and model ownership, verifiable AI, permanent data,

No personal check-size range is published. Craft attributes investments from seed through growth to Jeff, but public round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

#44Jeff Fluhr

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Jeff specializes in marketplaces, particularly vertical models that go deeper than horizontal incumbents. He evaluates density, liquidity, trust, network effects, take rate, gross profit, and capital-

No Jesse-specific startup check size or allocation authority is public. His documented mandate is legal oversight for Kleiner Perkins and its portfolio companies. Founders seeking financing should contact an investing partner.

#45Jesse King

Partner, General Counsel

Kleiner Perkins

Jesse's role is to manage legal risk and enable transactions for Kleiner Perkins and its portfolio. His background spans venture capital financings, M&A, corporate and securities work, litigation and

Fund and portfolio legal supportVenture financingsMergers and acquisitions

#46Panos Metsis

Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Panos leads growth investments in European technology companies that already show category leadership and can use €7M–€20M+ plus active operating support to scale internationally. His recent work emph

Growth-fund level: Big Pi Growth I states that it leads with €7M–€20M+ per company. Panos focuses on Series B+ growth investments; the published fund range is not a guarantee of his personal allocation authority for any deal.

Series BSeries CGrowth Equity

#47Josh Coyne

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Josh backs founders applying AI to consequential workflows in both software and the physical economy. His portfolio shows a consistent preference for products that turn abundant but fragmented informa

Not publicly disclosed. Kleiner Perkins invests from early stage through selective growth rounds; isolated portfolio check disclosures should not be treated as Josh's standard range.

Maven 11 does not publish Darius's personal check range or decision authority. Third-party investor databases estimate ranges, but those figures are not treated as verified evidence. The current firm describes an early-stage venture strategy without attaching a check range to him.

#48Darius Rugys

Partner

Maven 11 Capital

Darius works within Maven 11's crypto-native, early-stage strategy. The firm backs technically fluent founders who challenge the status quo by redefining ownership through open, inclusive, permissionl

Costanoa does not publish a standard current initial check-size range on its official site.

#49Pamela Magie

Director of Operations

Costanoa Ventures

Pamela Magie is listed in a Director of Operations capacity at Costanoa Ventures. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

No Mike-specific check range is public. Craft's official portfolio attributes angel/seed, venture and growth investments to him, but financing totals and round labels are not his check size. Confirm vehicle, ownership target, reserves and lead appetite directly.

#50Mike Marg

Partner

Craft Ventures

Mike invests in enterprise software and AI products that deliver fast, legible value to an end user and can expand from bottom-up adoption into durable enterprise systems. His work links product archi

AngelSeedSeries A

#51Scott Sage

Co-founder & Partner

Crane Venture Partners

Scott Sage invests or supports investments through Crane Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founders from inception through seed who are building foundational enterprise and intelligent-compu

Crane Venture Partners does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Costanoa does not publish a standard current initial check-size range on its official site.

#52Taylor Bernal

Director of Marketing & Platform

Costanoa Ventures

Taylor Bernal is listed in a Director of Marketing & Platform capacity at Costanoa Ventures. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as share

Cervin Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#53Courtney McKee

VP of Finance

Cervin Ventures

Courtney McKee is listed in a VP of Finance capacity at Cervin Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and us

Cervin Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#54Madison Steele

Operations Manager

Cervin Ventures

Madison Steele is listed in a Operations Manager capacity at Cervin Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction a

#55Trevor Mottl

Venture Partner

Fusion Fund

Trevor Mottl is listed by Fusion Fund as Venture Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Invests across the United States and Canada in technically defensible companies built by founders

Wintermute Ventures currently publishes flexible $500K–$5M+ global investments, primarily Seed and Series A, using proprietary capital and often leading or co-leading. This is a firm range—not Yoann's personal promise—and the firm also makes selective later-stage investments.

#56Yoann Turpin

Co-founder

Wintermute Ventures

Yoann brings high-frequency trading, hedge-fund and family-office experience to a proprietary-capital venture platform built around Wintermute's market infrastructure. The firm backs category-defining

#57Rohini Kosoglu

Venture Partner

Fusion Fund

Rohini Kosoglu is listed by Fusion Fund as Venture Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Invests across the United States and Canada in technically defensible companies built by founder

NGC does not publish a verified personal check range for Kay. The firm describes early-stage Web3 infrastructure investing and research support; founders should confirm the applicable vehicle, initial token/equity structure, ownership and reserves directly.

#58Kay Fong

Venture Partner

NGC Ventures

Kay backs technically ambitious infrastructure founders, with disclosed investments spanning zero-knowledge scaling, modular data availability, decentralized grants and on-chain agreements. His softwa

Research and IdeationPre-SeedSeed

#59Carlos Jo-Loo

Partner

Crane Venture Partners

Carlos Jo-Loo invests or supports investments through Crane Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founders from inception through seed who are building foundational enterprise and intelligent-co

Crane Venture Partners does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. A 2022 Notifi investment note identifies a $2.5M pre-seed round led by Hashed, while the firm's 2021 Venture Fund II was $200M; neither figure should be treated as Baek's standard or current personal ticket.

#60Baek Kim

Partner

Hashed

Baek invests in infrastructure and applications that make decentralized systems useful to ordinary users. His writing connects mass adoption to better user experience, privacy-preserving computation,

#61Alexander Rosen

Managing Partner

Ridge Ventures

Alexander Rosen invests or supports investments through Ridge Ventures's published strategy: Back experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software companies at late Seed and early

Costanoa does not publish a standard current initial check-size range on its official site.

#62Arpie Kawmongkolsi

Executive Assistant

Costanoa Ventures

Arpie Kawmongkolsi is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Costanoa Ventures. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared contex

Crane Venture Partners does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#63Yara Alenazi

Investor

Crane Venture Partners

Yara Alenazi invests or supports investments through Crane Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founders from inception through seed who are building foundational enterprise and intelligent-com

#64Chi-Chao Chang

Venture Partner

Fusion Fund

Chi-Chao Chang is listed by Fusion Fund as Venture Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Invests across the United States and Canada in technically defensible companies built by founder

$100K-$1M initial investments, with up to $10M total capacity including syndicates.

#65Chris Hulls

Venture Partner

Recursive Ventures

Chris Hulls invests or supports investments through Recursive Ventures's published strategy: Invest without requiring a lead position in U.S. pre-seed and seed companies, with particular interest in A

#66Lovlani Schulte

Executive Assistant

Ridge Ventures

Lovlani Schulte is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Ridge Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction

Essence VC does not publish a standard check-size range on its current website.

#67Naomi Walker-Garrett

Head of Platform

Essence VC

Naomi Walker-Garrett is listed in a Head of Platform capacity at Essence VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction an

InceptionPre-SeedSeed

#68Timothy Chen

Managing Partner

Essence VC

Timothy Chen invests or supports investments through Essence VC's published strategy: Back deeply technical founders building infrastructure and core primitives that enable the next generation of soft

Essence VC does not publish a standard check-size range on its current website.

InceptionPre-SeedSeed

#69Nancy Thomson

Chief of Staff

Ridge Ventures

Nancy Thomson is listed in a Chief of Staff capacity at Ridge Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and use

No verified personal check range or current firm-wide standard range is publicly stated on Kleiner Perkins' site. Aditya's official portfolio includes both early and growth investments; round size and signing authority should be confirmed directly.

#70Aditya Naganath

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Aditya backs the infrastructure and applications that make AI useful inside enterprises. His disclosed portfolio spans long-horizon agent infrastructure, AI-first site reliability, conversational data

Bloomberg Beta does not publish a current standard check-size range in its public manual.

#71Cate Taylor

Team Member

Bloomberg Beta

Cate Taylor is listed in a Team Member capacity at Bloomberg Beta. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the

#72Akriti Dokania

Venture Partner

Ridge Ventures

Akriti Dokania invests or supports investments through Ridge Ventures's published strategy: Back experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software companies at late Seed and early S

Bloomberg Beta does not publish a current standard check-size range in its public manual.

#73Julianne Fables

Team Member

Bloomberg Beta

Julianne Fables is listed in a Team Member capacity at Bloomberg Beta. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses

Bloomberg Beta does not publish a current standard check-size range in its public manual.

#74Lori Berenberg

Team Member

Bloomberg Beta

Lori Berenberg is listed in a Team Member capacity at Bloomberg Beta. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses

Bloomberg Beta does not publish a current standard check-size range in its public manual.

#75Angela Martin

Team Member

Bloomberg Beta

Angela Martin is listed in a Team Member capacity at Bloomberg Beta. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses t

#76Karen Otani Brewer

Head of Investor Relations

Ridge Ventures

Karen Otani Brewer is listed in a Head of Investor Relations capacity at Ridge Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role di

Cervin Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#77McKayla Nevins

Business Development Manager

Cervin Ventures

McKayla Nevins is listed as Business Development Manager at Cervin Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction an

Bloomberg Beta does not publish a current standard check-size range in its public manual.

#78Karin Klein

Team Member

Bloomberg Beta

Karin Klein is listed in a Team Member capacity at Bloomberg Beta. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the

#79Pat Kenealy

Venture Partner

Ridge Ventures

Pat Kenealy invests or supports investments through Ridge Ventures's published strategy: Back experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software companies at late Seed and early Seri

#80Vashegaarie Sundar

Investor Relations Associate

Fusion Fund

Vashegaarie Sundar is listed by Fusion Fund as Investor Relations Associate on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Invests across the United States and Canada in technically defensible companies

#81Peter Zatloukal

Operating Partner

Ridge Ventures

Peter Zatloukal is listed in a Operating Partner capacity at Ridge Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction an

Bloomberg Beta does not publish a current standard check-size range in its public manual.

#82Beth Kroman

Team Member

Bloomberg Beta

Beth Kroman is listed in a Team Member capacity at Bloomberg Beta. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the

#83Yousuf Khan

Venture Partner

Ridge Ventures

Yousuf Khan invests or supports investments through Ridge Ventures's published strategy: Back experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software companies at late Seed and early Seri

No personal check range is published. Jai focuses on growth-stage opportunities, while Khosla's Main Fund covers early through later-stage ventures and all total financings above $10M. Round size is not the same as Jai's personal allocation authority.

#84Jai Sajnani

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Jai looks for category-defining growth companies with the potential for outsized scale and economics, while remaining open to bold bets even after the early stage. His public-markets background adds a

Series BSeries CGrowth

#85Wendy Phillips

Venture Partner

Ridge Ventures

Wendy Phillips invests or supports investments through Ridge Ventures's published strategy: Back experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software companies at late Seed and early S

#86Sanjeev Kumar

Venture Partner

Fusion Fund

Sanjeev Kumar is listed by Fusion Fund as Venture Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Invests across the United States and Canada in technically defensible companies built by founders

#87Nitin Mathur

Venture Partner

Fusion Fund

Nitin Mathur is listed by Fusion Fund as Venture Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Invests across the United States and Canada in technically defensible companies built by founders

Cervin Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#88Neeraj Gupta

Co-Founder and Partner

Cervin Ventures

Neeraj Gupta invests or supports investments through Cervin Ventures's published strategy: Back category-creating enterprise applications, infrastructure and tools, then help founders sharpen product,

For its sustainable-ocean strategy, Indico currently publishes €100K–€5M investments in startups and SMEs. This is a firm and strategy range—not André's personal authority—and exact initial size, ownership and reserves should be confirmed for each company.

#89André Almeida Santos

Partner

Indico Capital

André leads Indico's work at the intersection of commercially scalable technology, sustainable ocean use and systemic regeneration. His development-economics and green-growth background points to comp

$100K-$1M initial investments, with up to $10M total capacity including syndicates.

#90Itamar Novick

Founder and Managing Partner

Recursive Ventures

Itamar Novick invests or supports investments through Recursive Ventures's published strategy: Invest without requiring a lead position in U.S. pre-seed and seed companies, with particular interest in

Cervin Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#91Scott Brown

Partner and Head of Platform

Cervin Ventures

Scott Brown is listed in a Partner and Head of Platform capacity at Cervin Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distin

No first-party personal or firm check range is published. Third-party directories repeat a $100K–$5M estimate, but it is excluded here because NGC's own site does not substantiate it; founders should confirm stage and ticket directly.

#92Wayne Zhu

General Partner

NGC Ventures

Wayne's record points to foundational network investing informed by public-market research: he supported Solana and Algorand early, before their ecosystems became established, and NGC's current portfo

SeedEarly StageNetwork Formation

#93Zao Chen

Principal

Craft Ventures

Zao invests in software with a particular focus on data and AI infrastructure and developer tools. His work favors open, interoperable or community-led platforms that become default infrastructure: te

No Zao-specific check range is public. His attributed deals span Series A through late growth, while Craft operates separate early-stage and growth funds. Founders should confirm current vehicle, ownership target and sizing through inquiries@craftventures.com rather than infer a range from individual announced rounds.

Series ASeries BSeries C

#94Anupam Rastogi

Managing Partner

Emergent Ventures

Anupam Rastogi invests or supports investments through Emergent Ventures's published strategy: Back enterprising founders from inception through pre-Series A who are building intelligent software, ent

Emergent Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

InceptionSeedPre-Series A

#95Robert Simon

Venture Partner

Ridge Ventures

Robert Simon invests or supports investments through Ridge Ventures's published strategy: Back experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software companies at late Seed and early Ser

Emergent Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#96Katie Passalacqua

Head of Finance

Emergent Ventures

Katie Passalacqua is listed in a Head of Finance capacity at Emergent Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction

InceptionSeedPre-Series A

#97Anna Cachadiña Abelló

Investor

Crane Venture Partners

Anna Cachadiña Abelló invests or supports investments through Crane Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founders from inception through seed who are building foundational enterprise and intell

Crane Venture Partners does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#98Zhenan Bao

Advisory Partner

Fusion Fund

Zhenan Bao is listed by Fusion Fund as Advisory Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Invests across the United States and Canada in technically defensible companies built by founders w

Crane Venture Partners does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#99Max Chapman

Investor

Crane Venture Partners

Max Chapman invests or supports investments through Crane Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founders from inception through seed who are building foundational enterprise and intelligent-comp

Crane Venture Partners does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#100Sidhant Goyal

Investor

Crane Venture Partners

Sidhant Goyal invests or supports investments through Crane Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founders from inception through seed who are building foundational enterprise and intelligent-co