Best VCs for Developer Tools

Co-Founder & Partner

First Round Capital

The seed-stage specialist. Invests earliest and deepest at seed — First Round was one of the firms that pioneered institutional seed investing. Built First Round into a platform that punches well abov

Partner

Electric Capital

Investing in crypto infrastructure and developer platforms at Electric Capital. Focuses on projects that expand the crypto developer ecosystem.

Founder & GP

Portal Ventures

Investing in early-stage crypto infrastructure and applications at Portal Ventures. Focused on backing technical founders building at the frontier of blockchain technology.

Partner

Bessemer Venture Partners

The cloud computing investor. His annual 'State of the Cloud' report is the definitive industry reference for cloud/SaaS metrics. Bessemer's 'Cloud Atlas' benchmarking tool is used by thousands of Saa

Partner

Electric Capital

Investing in crypto infrastructure at Electric Capital. Uses developer activity data and ecosystem analysis to make investment decisions.

Founder

Canonical Crypto

Investing in crypto infrastructure and applications at Canonical Crypto. Focused on early-stage projects building foundational crypto technology.

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Electric Capital

Co-founder of Electric Capital. Uses data-driven analysis to identify the most promising crypto ecosystems by tracking developer activity and code commits.

General Partner, Galaxy Ventures

Galaxy Digital

Invests in crypto infrastructure and DeFi protocols at Galaxy Digital. Focuses on foundational technology that enables the next wave of crypto applications.

Managing Partner

Hack VC

Co-founder of Hack VC, investing in crypto infrastructure and developer platforms. Believes the next wave of crypto adoption is driven by better developer tooling and infrastructure.

Managing Partner

Hack VC

Co-founder of Hack VC, focused on deep tech and infrastructure in crypto. Brings a Silicon Valley tech investor perspective to blockchain investing.

Partner

Hack VC

Investing in crypto infrastructure and emerging protocols at Hack VC. Focuses on technical due diligence and identifying strong engineering teams.

Founder

Gil Capital (Solo GP)

One of the largest and most successful solo GP funds ever ($1B+). Unusually dense hit rate across breakout companies — has invested in more unicorns than most institutional funds. Invests based on pat

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Leads Kleiner Perkins' enterprise practice. Previously at Social Capital where he led the Slack and Figma investments — two of the most product-obsessed enterprise companies ever built. Strong product

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

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)

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Pioneered 'Bottom-Up SaaS' — the strategy of applying consumer growth tactics to B2B products. At PayPal he learned viral distribution; at Yammer he proved it could work in the enterprise, growing fro

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Electric Capital

Developer ecosystems and data-driven investing. Publishes Electric Capital Developer Report.

Co-founder & CEO

Centrality

Centrality builds blockchain infrastructure from New Zealand. Focus on making blockchain accessible for mainstream applications.

Angel / Educator

Solana ecosystem, developer education, and infrastructure.