Best VCs for Developer Tools
504 venture capitalists actively investing in 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
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
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
Founder
Canonical Crypto
Investing in crypto infrastructure and applications at Canonical Crypto. Focused on early-stage projects building foundational crypto technology.
Former Principal, Northzone (off current roster); Investor & Advisor
Northzone (Web3)
At Northzone, Markus invested across enterprise applications, infrastructure, developer products and healthcare, with a strong DACH footprint. His operating experience at digital-health company Kry sh
General Partner
Union Square Ventures (USV)
Michael is an idea-driven early-stage investor and former product founder who looks for non-obvious shifts before they become consensus. His current AI thesis favors companies that restructure a marke
Partner
First Round Capital
Todd backs technical founders who can turn complex technology into an elegant power tool and is unusually focused on the mechanics of reaching product-market fit. His disclosed portfolio—fal, Parallel
Managing Partner
Chemistry
Ethan Kurzweil invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commer
Partner
Chemistry
Bohan Lou invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commercial
Managing Partner
Chemistry
Kristina Shen invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commerc
Managing Partner
Chemistry
Mark Goldberg invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commerc
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
Partner
First Round Capital
Brett studies how thousands of small choices compound into an exceptional company. He backs very early builders with contrarian insight and an outlier capability, then works at the decision level rath
Associate
Colosseum
Michael's lens combines markets research with Colosseum's tournament-style venture funnel: use global hackathons and four-week build sprints to observe which founders ship, learn and attract users bef
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
Venture Partner
Paradigm
Caitlin is a Paradigm venture partner and Stripe zero-to-one strategist whose published investment perspective centers on crypto's ability to improve online coordination and create internet-native eco
General Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Banafsheh backs early blockchain companies and token networks that create fundamental utility. Her public discussions emphasize the infrastructure or 'plumbing' of crypto, globally relevant financial
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
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 and Managing Director
Khosla Ventures
Sven backs technically ambitious companies that can create new industries or unlock novel user experiences. His engineering lens favors frontier AI, robotics, autonomy, aerospace, developer infrastruc
Principal
Kleiner Perkins
Nadia invests across enterprise applications and infrastructure, from AI compute and networking to vertical AI in healthcare, finance, sales, coding, and productivity. Her official portfolio spans bot
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Electric Capital
Developer ecosystems and data-driven investing. Publishes Electric Capital Developer Report.
General Partner
Electric Capital
Ren backs deeply technical, trust-minimized systems and the builders who can turn them into usable infrastructure. His work combines protocol security, consensus game theory, smart-contract code analy
Partner
Northzone (Web3)
Sanjot leads Northzone's growth strategy. He looks for companies with proven product-market fit, repeatable go-to-market, viable unit economics, distinctive product IP, mission-critical customer value
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)
Investor
BoxGroup
Arielle invests within BoxGroup's broad earliest-stage mandate. Her differentiated documented context is technical and translational: Harvard bioengineering research, founding a postpartum medical-dev
Associate Technical Recruiter
First Round Capital
Lizzy's operating focus is helping First Round portfolio founders build their earliest technical teams. Her experience recruiting engineers across the Americas at Harness and supporting Last Energy gi
Founding Partner and Managing Director
Khosla Ventures
David backs internet software and services with the potential to become large, durable businesses. His operator writing emphasizes product-management accountability, quantitative decision-making, and
Principal
Craft Ventures
Sean backs technically ambitious design, developer, and bottom-up software that gives professionals greater control rather than reducing their work to generic automation. His Figma experience informs
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
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
Principal
Northzone (Web3)
Dominik backs early-stage AI applications, vertical SaaS, and fintech. His portfolio and writing emphasize software for structurally underserved industries: frontline labor, managed service providers,
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
Partner
Northzone (Web3)
Michiel focuses on SaaS, healthcare, and AI, often where modern, collaborative, or intelligent software replaces complex legacy systems. His portfolio ranges from HR, manufacturing, architecture, logi
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
Venture Partner
Woodstock Fund
Prashanth works within Woodstock's research-led early- and growth-stage Web3 strategy. The firm's three lenses are convergence, financialisation, and virtualisation: interoperable infrastructure that
Managing Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Samuel backs early crypto infrastructure and protocols that make blockchain useful at scale. His public focus includes wallets, brokerages, developer tools, remittances, stablecoin and payment rails,
Technical Partner
Lightspeed Faction
As Faction's Technical Partner, Raymond evaluates early blockchain companies across the stack, from base infrastructure to applications. The safest evidence-supported interpretation of his mandate is
Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Ilya invests in technology and novel business models capable of fundamentally reshaping industries. His portfolio connects AI-native professional work, enterprise operating systems, mathematical and s
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
Investor
Bain Capital Crypto
Natalie's public footprint joins two sides of crypto investing: foundational protocol infrastructure and consumer experiences around identity, media, culture, games and creator economics. Her prior tr
Associate
Northzone (Web3)
Alessandro focuses on early-stage companies across the AI stack. His named Northzone portfolio spans AI-native infrastructure and applications—Duvo.ai, MicroAGI, Riff, and SolveAI—alongside consumer c
Principal
Haun Ventures
Mark combines smart-contract and token-incentive building experience with early-stage investing. Current evidence favors useful crypto businesses rather than hype, particularly institutional market in
Partner
Craft Ventures
Kevin backs early- and late-stage software companies where a major platform shift creates a new security or infrastructure control point. His recent work emphasizes runtime-first cloud security, auton
Principal
Haun Ventures
Mark combines a builder's understanding of smart contracts and token incentives with early-stage investing. Current evidence points to founders building useful crypto businesses rather than chasing ma
Founder and Managing Partner
Array Ventures
Shruti Gandhi invests or supports investments through Array Ventures's published strategy: Back technically ambitious founders at inception across AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, healthtech, fintech
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
Executive Assistant and Marketing Operations
Chemistry
Gianna DeLuna is listed in a Executive Assistant and Marketing Operations capacity at Chemistry. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore pres
Social Media and Content Manager
Chemistry
Madison Sofield invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong comme
Investor
BoxGroup
Holley invests at formation stage within BoxGroup's generalist, people-first mandate. Her recent public activity and graduate technical coursework show particular engagement with AI agents, personaliz
Executive Assistant and Office Manager
Cowboy Ventures
Shimali Puri is listed in a Executive Assistant and Office Manager capacity at Cowboy Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that
Investor
BoxGroup
Disha invests at the earliest stages with a differentiated mix of finance, neuroscience, biotech R&D, and prior growth-investing exposure. Her public investor profile points to AI, enterprise infrastr
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
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
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
Chief Financial Officer
Cowboy Ventures
Ryan Stroub is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Cowboy Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction
Partner
BoxGroup
Claire backs formation-stage technology companies as a BoxGroup generalist, with visible strength across enterprise and developer software, AI-native products, consumer experiences, and marketplaces.
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
Partner
Root Ventures
Chrissy Meyer invests or supports investments through Root Ventures's published strategy: Lead initial funding for technically ambitious founders pursuing new opportunities in hardware, software infra
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
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
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
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,
Talent Partner
Audacious Ventures
Samantha Price is listed in a Talent Partner capacity at Audacious Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction an
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
Team Member
Array Ventures
Elias Torres is listed in a Team Member capacity at Array Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses th
Founder and General Partner
Banana Capital
Turner Novak invests or supports investments through Banana Capital's published strategy: Back resilient, obsessed founders with a non-obvious insight, defensible distribution, credible revenue prospe
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
Partner
Khosla Ventures
Adrian is an early-stage generalist whose prior portfolio and advisory work span fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, defense, productivity, and frontier technologies. His biography emphasizes
Head of Platform
Eniac Ventures
Dorian Rutherford is listed in a Head of Platform capacity at Eniac Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction a
Business Operations Manager
Eniac Ventures
Dan Donovan is listed in a Business Operations Manager capacity at Eniac Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinct
Partner
Root Ventures
Kane Hsieh invests or supports investments through Root Ventures's published strategy: Lead initial funding for technically ambitious founders pursuing new opportunities in hardware, software infrastr
CMO and Head of Operations
Chemistry
Jamie Viggiano is listed in a CMO and Head of Operations capacity at Chemistry. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role di
Co-Founder and General Partner
Work-Bench
Jonathan Lehr invests or supports investments through Work-Bench's published strategy: Back enterprise software founders at seed and work alongside them to turn first customers into a repeatable go-to
Founder and Partner
Audacious Ventures
Nakul Mandan invests or supports investments through Audacious Ventures's published strategy: Back exceptional early-stage founders pursuing improbable outcomes and help them recruit an extraordinary
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
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
Co-Founder and General Partner
Eniac Ventures
Nihal Mehta invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate produc
Co-Founder and General Partner
Eniac Ventures
Hadley Harris invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate prod
Partner
Khosla Ventures
Adina backs exceptional founders before market consensus and works with them from product-market fit through breakout growth. Her stated focus is early-stage software, AI, and fintech, with disclosed
Chief Financial Officer
Eniac Ventures
Mike Witkowski is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Eniac Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distincti
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,
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
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
Operations Manager
Work-Bench
Pattie Tope is listed in a Operations Manager capacity at Work-Bench. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses
Executive-in-Residence
Cowboy Ventures
Donna Boyer is listed in a Executive-in-Residence capacity at Cowboy Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction
Co-Founder and General Partner
Work-Bench
Jessica Lin invests or supports investments through Work-Bench's published strategy: Back enterprise software founders at seed and work alongside them to turn first customers into a repeatable go-to-m
General Partner
Conviction Partners
Mike Vernal invests or supports investments through Conviction Partners's published strategy: Partner with ambitious AI-native software companies early, combining domain depth, talent, customers, comp
Executive Assistant
Chemistry
Joey Kaplan is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Chemistry. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction
Partner
BoxGroup
Adina is an early-stage generalist with a publicly documented emphasis on B2B software, consumer internet, and fintech. Her operating background in e-commerce and recent visible interest in AI deploym
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
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
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
Executive Assistant and Operations
Conviction Partners
Christy Hogue is listed in a Executive Assistant and Operations capacity at Conviction Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that
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
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
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
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
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