Best VCs for Software

Shorooq invests across the equity journey from pre-seed through late-stage growth, but neither the firm nor Kunal publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals are not treated as check-size evidence.

#3Kunal Savjani

Venture Partner

Shorooq Partners

Kunal supports Shorooq's fintech and web3 practice with an operator's perspective across the UK, UAE, and Africa. His remit fits the firm's founder-first strategy: backing regional companies from idea

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No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's Bedaya strategy invests from pre-seed through early rounds, while the broader equity platform reaches late-stage growth. Founders should identify the relevant Shorooq vehicle instead of assuming Omer can deploy across every strategy or size.

#4Omer Zabit

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Omer brings a hands-on operator lens from scaling Careem's commercial businesses and building mobile-money products. His investing focus is on ambitious technology founders in the UAE, Qatar and front

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IdeaPre-seedEarly-stage venture

#5Abdul Hameed Arwani

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Shorooq says its venture strategy is to invest across sectors and stages, backing founders in MENA growth markets as early as the idea or pre-seed stage. The firm emphasizes locally embedded partners,

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#6Josh Kopelman

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

$500K-$3M (seed only)

$500K-$5M (recently raised a $550M fund in Oct 2025, significantly larger than previous funds)

#7David Tisch

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

BoxGroup

One of the most active and respected seed investors in NYC. Co-founded TechStars NYC (now Techstars NYC), deeply embedded in the New York startup ecosystem since its earliest days. Known for being hig

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, BVP has $3.6B+ under management)

#8Byron Deeter

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

No current personal angel check range is public. Historical Northzone deals ranged from pre-seed through growth, but firm-level third-party range estimates do not establish Deepka's present allocation. Founders should ask directly about current angel activity and should use Northzone's live team for fund pitches.

#9Deepka Rana

Former Principal, Northzone; Angel Investor

Northzone (Web3)

At Northzone, Deepka focused on product-led consumer and B2B software, with a particularly developed Future of Work thesis. She argued that structurally scarce frontline labor and obsolete tools creat

Current occasional angel investingHistorical pre-seedHistorical seed and Series A

#10Markus Gleim

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

No current personal check range or active fund mandate is public. Historical Northzone investments include seed and Series A through later follow-ons, but third-party Northzone range estimates are stale and do not establish present authority. Confirm current capacity directly.

Historical seed and Series AHistorical follow-on investingBoard and advisory support

#11Michael Mignano

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

No personal check-size range is published. Michael is early-stage focused within USV's collaborative partnership; USV makes investment decisions as a group without a formal vote.

Not applicable to his current role: First Round states that Chris has made no new investments since becoming a Board Partner in 2019. Historical round or check data should not be used to imply current investment authority.

#12Chris Fralic

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Chris is now a portfolio-support and board partner rather than an active new-investment partner. His historical investing centered on advertising and marketing technology, social and mobile products,

Existing Portfolio SupportBoard Service

#13Todd Jackson

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

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Todd.

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#14Kristina Shen

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

#15Jeannette zu Fürstenberg

President & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Jeannette is a founder-led generalist investing to strengthen European prosperity and resilience through technology. She backs ambitious companies from ideation onward across AI, defense, energy, indu

No personal check-size range is published. Her public record spans seed investments through large follow-on rounds, but total financing sizes and General Catalyst's assets are not personal check parameters.

$1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

#16Dana Eli-Lorch

Founding Partner

Vesey Ventures

Dana Eli-Lorch invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can

Maki targets first rounds below EUR 5 million and supports consequent rounds; this is a firm round criterion, not Pirkka's personal check range. Active new investments come from Fund III.

#17Pirkka Palomäki

Founding Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Pirkka backs ambitious Nordic teams at their first rounds, combining an operator's technology and scaling perspective with Maki's sector-agnostic, non-consensus approach. His attributed investments fa

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#18Bohan Lou

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

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#19Mark Goldberg

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

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#20Ian Heinrich

Principal, Investments

Ensemble VC

Ian Heinrich invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage su

$1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

#21Julia Huang

Founding Partner

Vesey Ventures

Julia Huang invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can acc

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#22Gopi Sundaramurthy

Managing Partner

Ensemble VC

Gopi Sundaramurthy invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-st

$1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

#23Lindsay Fitzgerald

Founding Partner

Vesey Ventures

Lindsay Fitzgerald invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#24Ethan Kurzweil

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

Paradigm says it backs founders at every stage from first check through public markets, but it does not publish Alpin's personal check range or decision authority. A 2024 firm filing described vehicle investments from $1M to $100M or more; that historical firm range is not treated as his current personal range.

#25Alpin Yukseloglu

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Alpin partners with crypto founders and researchers who have strong instincts about the future and the courage to follow them. His work centers on protocol, market, and mechanism design—especially sys

Type Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#26Terri Burns

Founder and Managing Partner

Type Capital

Terri Burns invests or supports investments through Type Capital's published strategy: Back early-stage founders with strong product taste and the potential to build generational technology companies.

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.

#27Pranav 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

#28Mohammed Vaid

Founder and Managing Partner

Simplify Ventures

Mohammed Vaid invests or supports investments through Simplify Ventures's published strategy: Invest globally in early-stage B2B technology and pair capital with hands-on infrastructure across technol

Simplify Ventures does not publish a standard investment range; it targets early-stage companies with under $5M in revenue.

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#29Collin West

Founder and Managing Partner

Ensemble VC

Collin West invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage sup

No personal check-size range is published. Keith invests across stages, and disclosed financings across his portfolio should not be treated as a standard personal allocation range.

#30Keith Rabois

Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Keith is a stage- and sector-flexible investor who looks for exceptional founders with decisive judgment, high agency, a contrarian insight, and the ability to recruit unusually strong talent. His rec

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.

#31Storm 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

#32Pauliina Martikainen

Managing Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Pauliina leads a sector-agnostic Nordic first-round strategy centered on exceptional technical founders with global ambition. Her attributed portfolio work spans clinical sensing, autonomous-mobility

Maki's stated sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this describes target round size, not Pauliina's personal check authority. The firm continues to support later rounds selectively.

Big Pi publishes a firm-wide equity-ticket range of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds; its early-stage Fund II described €1M–€3M lead investments. These are firm parameters, not Vassilis's personal allocation range.

#33Vassilis Tziokas

Venture Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Vassilis brings a blockchain ecosystem and go-to-market lens to Big Pi's technology investing. His public work emphasizes the transition from crypto trading toward usable infrastructure: privacy-prese

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#34Brett Berson

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

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Brett.

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Bill.

#35Bill Trenchard

Partner

First Round Capital

Bill looks for pre-product-market-fit founders who reason from first principles: they decompose a complicated system to its atomic unit, find hidden leverage in overlooked mechanics, and build an unco

Neither Airtree nor Elicia publishes her personal check range or decision authority. Airtree describes itself as seed-first and able to support companies through their journey; a historic Fund III article mentioned a $200k seed entry point, but that is firm- and vintage-specific rather than a current personal range.

#36Elicia McDonald

CEO & Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Elicia backs highly ambitious, resilient founders from Australia and New Zealand, often beginning at pre-seed or seed and supporting them across later rounds. Her disclosed portfolio spans AI-enabled

No personal check range or signing authority is published. Nadia's current portfolio includes early and growth investments; individual company round sizes are not a personal range.

#37Nadia Cochinwala

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

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Sophie's personal allocation range.

#38Sophie Chiu

Investment Director

AppWorks

Sophie backs Asian founders applying AI to transformative products and organizational models. Her current work spans personalized AI, gaming, agentic systems, and AI-enabled work; her broader investme

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.

#39Leigh 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 current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Steven's official Board Partner profile emphasizes operational and board support; First Round's firm-wide check range should not be attributed to him personally.

#40Steven Aldrich

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Steven helps companies make consequential decisions quickly despite incomplete information, test the result in the real world, and learn with a beginner's mindset. His operating history spans founding

Existing Portfolio SupportGrowth and ScaleBoard and Advisory

#41Richard Alfonsi

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentati

No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Richard's official Board Partner role focuses on coaching existing First Round companies; firm-wide check ranges should not be attributed to him personally.

Existing Portfolio SupportGrowth and ScaleBoard and Advisory

#42David Sacks

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

$1M-$50M

Norrsken VC publicly states €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is a firm-level range, not proof of Alexander's personal or unilateral approval authority.

#43Alexander Danielsson

General Partner

Norrsken Impact Fund

Alexander backs scalable software and AI that modernize economically important, under-digitized industries while creating measurable environmental or social impact. His recent work around Terra Labs,

In a 2020 first-person interview, Samir described a typical Khosla Seed Fund investment as roughly $1M–$2M, used as option-value capital to remove key risks before a larger Series A/B decision. Khosla's current Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M. These are historical/firm-level guideposts, not a guaranteed current personal range.

#44Samir Kaul

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Samir prefers large, known markets where a radical technical risk can produce a 10x-better product. He treats small seed checks as option-value experiments: identify a potential billion-dollar outcome

IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#45Nimi Katragadda

Partner

BoxGroup

Nimi is a generalist early-stage Partner with a long-running, publicly documented focus on healthcare and life sciences, fintech, marketplaces, and software. Her current activity extends that lens int

BoxGroup currently publishes a firm-wide maximum investment of $1M. Historical sources reported smaller firm checks and third-party profiles estimate $250K–$750K for Nimi, but no primary source confirms a current personal range.

No personal check-size range is published. Khosla invests from seed through growth; company round totals and the firm's assets are not Sven's personal check parameters.

#46Sven Strohband

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

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#47Bryan Rosenblatt

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bryan applies a growth, revenue, and marketplace lens shaped by building Reddit's New York revenue organization and Twitter's startup advertising business. His investments favor products that remove e

No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from angel/seed through venture and growth; amounts in Bryan's investment announcements are total company rounds, not his personal or standard Craft checks.

GTK is primarily a corporate advisory firm and does not publish an Ali-specific venture check range. Ali has disclosed individual technology investments, but those do not establish a repeatable allocation mandate. Companies should clarify whether they seek advisory work, financing support or an investment.

#48Ali Tabibian

Founder and Partner

GTK Partners

Ali works where technical systems, strategic finance and corporate transactions meet. GTK's work spans private growth companies, corporations and financial sponsors, with particular expertise in softw

Growth-company advisoryMergers and acquisitionsCapital formation

#49Stanko 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

#50Mamoon Hamid

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

$1M-$50M+

Maki's sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million; this describes the firm's target round, not Wilson's personal authority. He sources and evaluates opportunities within that day-zero mandate.

#51Wilson Tukiainen

Investment Manager

Maki.vc (Web3)

Wilson sources and evaluates Nordic first-round opportunities across Maki's sector-agnostic mandate, with a research-driven lens and responsibility for ESG development. His first publicly attributed 2

Maki's published sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this is a firm round-size criterion, not Paavo's personal check range. Fund III is the active new-investment vehicle, with selective follow-ons from older funds.

#52Paavo Räisänen

General Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Paavo backs Nordic deep-tech founders at their first institutional round when a radical scientific or engineering advance can overhaul an industry. He requires a credible technical foundation, balance

No reliable Arielle-specific check size is public. BoxGroup describes itself as an earliest-stage investor, but founders should confirm current round fit and allocation directly rather than relying on third-party range estimates.

#53Arielle Rothman

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

Pre-seedSeedEarliest-stage company formation

#54David Weiden

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

No personal check-size range is published. Khosla Ventures invests from seed through growth, but fund assets and portfolio round sizes are not David's personal minimum or maximum.

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#55Michael 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,

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.

Series ASeries BSeries C

#56Sean Whitney

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

No personal check-size range is published. His disclosed Craft investments include seed and Series A rounds, while his earlier Figma work included advising and investing in PLG SaaS from pre-seed through Series C; these are stage indicators, not personal check limits.

No personal standard check-size range is published. Northzone has disclosed leading or co-leading large company rounds, but those totals are not Sanjot's individual allocation range and should not be presented as one.

#57Sanjot Malhi

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

Series BSeries CGrowth

#58Brandon 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

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.

No current personal check range: Aristos is Partner Emeritus and an official 2025 biography says he is not involved with Big Pi's later funds. Big Pi's current platform range is €0.5M–€30M across funds, but should not be attributed to him.

#59Aristos Doxiadis

Partner Emeritus

Big Pi Ventures

Aristos' historical investment lens combines strong technology, team, and market position with realistic commercialization targets. He favors research-based ventures that can bridge academia and indus

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Nathan's personal allocation range.

#60Nathan Alexander

Investment VP

AppWorks

Nathan favors AI and software that hide technical complexity and remove customer friction. His product lens treats simplicity as a defensible outcome of customer obsession, opinionated design, discipl

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.

#61Grace 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

No personal check-size range or deal-lead authority is published. Craft's fund sizes and announced company rounds are not a defensible proxy for J Zac's individual allocation authority.

#62J Zac Stein

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

J Zac contributes an operator and product perspective to Craft's SaaS and marketplace investing. His public profile centers on building people-management software at Lattice, board work at Vanta, and

AngelSeedEarly Stage

#63Michiel Kotting

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

No personal check-size range is published. Michiel invests through Northzone across early and selected later rounds; disclosed financing totals are company rounds and do not establish an individual check range.

Neither Airtree nor Jackie publishes her personal check range or decision authority. The firm is seed-first and supports companies through later stages; individual portfolio round totals do not reveal Airtree's allocation or Jackie's authority.

#64Jackie Vullinghs

Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Jackie backs Australia and New Zealand founders from very early product formation through scale. Her disclosed portfolio crosses AI and enterprise software, healthcare, fintech, consumer platforms, fu

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.

#65Lucas 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

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.

#66Nick 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

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.

#67Fanis 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

Series BSeries CGrowth Equity

#68Jessica Liu

Partner

AppWorks

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfo

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Jessica's personal allocation range.

No personal or standard firm-wide check range is published. Ilya's official portfolio spans early and growth investments; Kleiner disclosed that its 2019 Series A investment in Rippling was $25M, but that one transaction is not a general range or personal limit.

#69Ilya Fushman

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

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range or signing authority is published for Maggie.

#70Maggie Basta

Investor

First Round Capital

Maggie's documented lens is research depth: she respects founders who do the work required to understand a problem at first principles and prefers to dig alongside them. Her technical background in si

YC's current standard deal is $500K for each accepted company: $125K for 7% on a post-money SAFE plus $375K on an uncapped MFN SAFE, accompanied by YC's participation right. It is a program-wide deal, not David's personal angel range.

#71David Lieb

General Partner

Y Combinator

David's founder story centers on building a simple mobile product to massive reach, confronting weak long-term retention and monetization honestly, then following the strongest user behavior into a be

IdeaPre-SeedBatch-stage startup

#72Kindle Van Linge

Principal

Craft Ventures

Kindle invests where AI or advanced technology becomes a mission-critical operating layer in large, regulated or technically demanding markets. Her attributed work spans AI medical knowledge, regulato

No Kindle-specific check range is public. Craft's live portfolio attributes her to growth, Series A and Series B investments, but those stage labels do not reveal individual allocation authority or check size. Confirm current vehicle, ownership and lead/co-invest posture directly.

Series ASeries BGrowth

#73Molly 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

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.

No personal check-size range is published. Jessica invests through Northzone's multi-stage funds; financing announcements report total rounds, not her personal allocation range.

#74Jessica Schultz

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Jessica backs product-led platforms and UX-driven software that use technology and intuitive experiences to disrupt traditional industries. Her operator lens emphasizes speed and momentum at company f

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.

#75Panos 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

Series BSeries CGrowth Equity

#76Marco 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

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.

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Joseph's personal allocation range.

#77Joseph Chan

Partner

AppWorks

Joseph's role is centered on the financial and operating foundation around an investment: portfolio management, fundraising structure, investor alignment, and Japan-Taiwan ecosystem access. His publis

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.

#78Pascual 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

#79Alessandro De Benedetti

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

No personal check-size range is published. Northzone is a multi-stage firm and Alessandro's official remit is early-stage AI; founders should confirm fit and round parameters directly rather than infer a personal allocation from portfolio rounds.

No personal check-size authority is published. Disclosed Craft financings involving Kevin range from seed and Series A through Series C and later growth rounds; the financing totals are company-round sizes, not Kevin's individual checks.

#80Kevin Gabura

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

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.

#81Josh 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

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#82Madison Sofield

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

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#83Jamie Viggiano

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

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#84Conrad Shang

Founder and Venture Partner

Ensemble VC

Conrad Shang invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage su

Myriad does not publish a standard person-specific check range; it launched with $100M in initial commitments.

#85Ryan Kilgallon

Senior Associate

Myriad Venture Partners

Ryan Kilgallon invests or supports investments through Myriad Venture Partners's published strategy: Back AI-first B2B companies changing how enterprises operate, compete and create value, using a cor

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#86Nicole Stump

Executive Assistant

Ensemble VC

Nicole Stump is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distincti

Myriad does not publish a standard person-specific check range; it launched with $100M in initial commitments.

#87Kris Meulen

Executive Advisory Board

Myriad Venture Partners

Kris Meulen is listed in a Executive Advisory Board capacity at Myriad Venture Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves th

Firm-level: First Round says initial investments typically range from $1M-$7M, average about $3.5M, and have ranged below and above that; participating rounds have ranged from $100K-$20M.

#88Rob Hayes

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Rob has historically backed founders pushing beyond existing market boundaries, including Uber, Square, Mint, eero, Gnip, and Planet Labs. His founder lens prizes CEOs who can move fluidly between a c

Firm-wide: Big Pi publishes equity tickets of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds. The current site does not publish Alex's personal range or the early-stage fund's narrower ticket policy, so the full platform range should not be read as his standard check.

#89Alex Eleftheriadis

Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Alex backs research- and engineering-led companies that start with a real problem, create defensible technical capability or intellectual property, and translate inventions into globally useful produc

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#90Rooney Pitchford

Director, Operations

Ensemble VC

Rooney Pitchford is listed in a Director, Operations capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role dist

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.

#91Jai 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

#92Kim Branson

Executive Advisory Board

Myriad Venture Partners

Kim Branson is listed in a Executive Advisory Board capacity at Myriad Venture Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves th

Myriad does not publish a standard person-specific check range; it launched with $100M in initial commitments.

Myriad does not publish a standard person-specific check range; it launched with $100M in initial commitments.

#93Danielle Sheer

Executive Advisory Board

Myriad Venture Partners

Danielle Sheer is listed in a Executive Advisory Board capacity at Myriad Venture Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#94Nesta Lenhert-Scholer

Principal Software Engineer, Data Team

Ensemble VC

Nesta Lenhert-Scholer is listed in a Principal Software Engineer, Data Team capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore

01A does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#95Cody Ng

Team Member

01A

Cody Ng is listed in a Team Member capacity at 01A. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Series ASeries BSeries C

#96Roy Rosin

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Roy spends most of his First Round time in healthcare, applying three decades of product, innovation, and care-delivery experience to companies that can materially improve lives. He favors practical e

Firm-level: First Round says initial investments typically range from $1M-$7M, average about $3.5M, and have ranged below and above that; participating rounds have ranged from $100K-$20M.

Myriad does not publish a standard person-specific check range; it launched with $100M in initial commitments.

#97Matt Collier

Executive Advisory Board

Myriad Venture Partners

Matt Collier is listed in a Executive Advisory Board capacity at Myriad Venture Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves t

Myriad does not publish a standard person-specific check range; it launched with $100M in initial commitments.

#98Raj Velmurugan

Executive Advisory Board

Myriad Venture Partners

Raj Velmurugan is listed in a Executive Advisory Board capacity at Myriad Venture Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves

01A does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#99Matt Bocci

Team Member

01A

Matt Bocci is listed in a Team Member capacity at 01A. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational contex

Series ASeries BSeries C

#100Lior Gerenstein

Executive Advisory Board

Myriad Venture Partners

Lior Gerenstein is listed in a Executive Advisory Board capacity at Myriad Venture Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserve

Myriad does not publish a standard person-specific check range; it launched with $100M in initial commitments.