Best VCs for Technology

Indico's current technology range is €500K–€10M, mostly Pre-Seed through Series A and selectively Series B/C. This is firm-level guidance, not Rui's personal commitment range; founders should confirm the applicable fund, initial size and reserves.

#2Rui Rodrigues

Partner

Indico Capital

Rui combines venture investing with transaction and corporate-finance discipline. Within Indico's mandate, that supports globally ambitious Southern European technology companies from early validation

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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.

#3André 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

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Indico currently publishes €500K–€10M technology investments, mostly from Pre-Seed through Series A with selective Series B/C. This is the live firm range, not Rui's personal check authority; exact sizing and vehicle should be confirmed directly.

#4Rui Jerónimo

Principal

Indico Capital

Rui brings long-running Portuguese institutional venture experience to Indico's early-stage Southern European technology mandate. Public evidence supports a broad rather than narrow personal sector re

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$250K–$500K stated first-check range in a current @FryCookVC public post, with 'no matter how early' guidance. Plutos describes investing from pre-seed through Series A across equity and token rounds. Confirm currency, ownership, reserves and whether the range applies to the Genesis Fund before relying on it.

#5Lukas Kristen

General Partner

Plutos Capital

Lukas backs deeply technical founders building sovereign, privacy-enabling infrastructure across blockchain, AI and dual-use systems. His central claim is that institutions need the openness, neutral

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#6Deepka 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

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.

Current occasional angel investingHistorical pre-seedHistorical seed and Series A

#7Michael 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.

#8Chris 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

#9Andy Weissman

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Andy invests at the edge of large markets under transformative pressure. His long-running thesis work centers on engaged networks, differentiated user experience, and defensibility created by network

No personal check-size range is published. USV describes itself as an earliest-stage generalist investor and makes decisions collaboratively without a vote; round fit should be confirmed with the partnership rather than attributed to Andy alone.

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#10Zoe Weinberg

Investment Team

ex/ante

Zoe Weinberg invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ident

No individual check range is published. USV's firm-wide range is $1 million to $30 million, but Jared's special-advisor placement does not establish personal decision authority; the partnership discusses investments collectively without a vote.

#11Jared Hecht

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Jared brings a repeat founder's consumer-product lens to networks at the intersection of AI and crypto. His published thesis favors strange, initially fringe behaviors that create genuinely new social

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.

#12Pirkka 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

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

#13Terri 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.

Pre-SeedSeed

#14Ian 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

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

No personal check size or investment allocation authority is published for Alyssa. Her route for founders is AppWorks' accelerator and its corporate accelerator programs; applicants should verify each current program's funding, equity and eligibility terms rather than assuming the firm's fund parameters apply.

#15Alyssa Chen

Accelerator Director

AppWorks

Alyssa's operating thesis is that an accelerator should be a practical lab where founders repeatedly test, learn and build with peers, mentors and corporate partners. She leads AppWorks Accelerator pl

Pre-accelerator and acceleratorFounder developmentAlumni and mentor community

#16Rebecca Kaden

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Rebecca invests at the edge of large markets, with a consumer and product lens sharpened by USV's network-effects thesis. Her current view links abundant AI intelligence, cheaper hardware, sensors, an

USV publishes a firm-wide check range of $1 million to $30 million and invests from the earliest stages through follow-ons. It does not publish Rebecca's individual authority, and the partnership makes decisions collectively without a vote.

No Jessy-specific check size is disclosed by Khosla Ventures. Publicly observed work spans an $11 million Spiritus seed financing led by Khosla and Pascal's $8 million seed round, but round size is not the same as the firm's check. Third-party claims of a $100,000–$5 million range were excluded as unverified.

#17Jessy Rivest

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Jessy looks for climate technologies grounded in hard science and non-obvious mechanisms that can make a meaningful dent in greenhouse-gas emissions. Her career shows a materials-to-systems lens: unde

SeedSeries ATechnical incubation and spinout

#18Collin 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

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

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

#19Gopi 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

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#20Alex Rohregger

Partner

Leitmotif

Alex Rohregger invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commerc

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#21Matt Trevithick

Managing Partner

Leitmotif

Matt Trevithick invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commer

No personal check-size range is published. Lux invests early and can support companies across their development, but its USD 7B under management and individual financing totals are not Peter's personal allocation limits.

#22Peter Hébert

Partner and Co-Founder

Lux Capital

Peter seeks scientifically and technologically ambitious ventures attempting what most people think will not work but could become indispensable if they succeed. He is a generalist across technology a

Company FormationPre-SeedSeed

#23Jeannette 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.

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#24Michael Mosier

Investment Team

ex/ante

Michael Mosier invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ide

No personal check-size range is published. His record includes seed investments and large later financings, but disclosed round totals belong to company financings and are not a personal range.

#25Neeraj Arora

CEO India, MENA & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Neeraj backs ambitious founders building category-defining businesses in India, MENA, and the corridors linking those regions with global markets. His approach combines Venture Highway's earliest-stag

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#26Anastasia Uglova

Ecosystem

ex/ante

Anastasia Uglova is listed in a Ecosystem capacity at ex/ante. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and use

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#27Farhan Abrol

Investment Team

ex/ante

Farhan Abrol invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ident

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.

#28Ted 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

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#29Ryan Bayliss

Partner

Leitmotif

Ryan Bayliss invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercia

USV's published firm range is $1 million to $30 million from earliest stage through follow-ons. No personal range is attributed to John, and the firm's investment decision is a collective discussion rather than an individual vote.

#30John Buttrick

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

John's published investments apply a lawyer-investor lens to regulated markets where analog, repetitive infrastructure blocks access. His work favors portable financial identity, user-controlled crede

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#31Jens Wiese

Managing Partner

Leitmotif

Jens Wiese invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercial

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.

#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

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.

#33Brad 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

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.

#34Pranav 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

#35Matt Hawes

Investment Team

ex/ante

Matt Hawes invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identit

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#36Philipp Emig

Partner

Leitmotif

Philipp Emig invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercia

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.

#37Keith 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 is disclosed. Shorooq's equity platform covers the full journey from pre-seed to late-stage growth; Tina's current Venture Partner/adviser listing does not establish independent check authority, so founders should confirm the relevant vehicle and decision process.

#38Tina Daher

Venture Partner

Shorooq Partners

Tina looks for high-caliber founders applying differentiated technology to consequential emerging-market problems. Her attributable investment material emphasizes technically credible climate and indu

Norrsken VC's live site publishes €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is the firm's current range, not Agate's personal check promise; exact initial versus follow-on sizing, ownership and vehicle should be confirmed for each opportunity.

#39Agate Freimane

Founding General Partner

Norrsken VC

Agate backs rapidly scalable businesses where solving a major social or environmental problem improves commercial performance. Her finance, fintech-startup and education experience combines with Norrs

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.

#40Elicia 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

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.

#41Bill 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

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.

#42Bryan 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 range or signing authority is published. Nadia's current portfolio includes early and growth investments; individual company round sizes are not a personal range.

#43Nadia 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

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.

#44Leigh 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 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.

#45Alex 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

IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#46Alexander 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,

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.

No Melissa-specific Blockchain Capital check size or allocation authority is public. Her documented work is executive talent, leadership and board development for NEA portfolio companies. Crypto founders should use Blockchain Capital's investors; NEA portfolio leaders can engage her on talent and leadership.

#47Melissa Taunton

Advisor; Partner, Talent at NEA

Blockchain Capital

Melissa's operating thesis is that exceptional companies require leaders who can scale themselves along with the organization. She works with founders and CEOs to build, develop, compensate and retain

Executive-team designLeadership developmentBoard building

#48Steven 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

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.

Existing Portfolio SupportGrowth and ScaleBoard and Advisory

#49Richard 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

#50Elena Pantazi

Partner & Head of Platform

Northzone (Web3)

Elena's platform thesis is that talent and portfolio development are continuous with investment quality: assess critical hiring and organizational needs before a deal, then help founders build teams a

No Elena-specific check size or allocation authority is public. Northzone's fund-level parameters must not be presented as her personal discretion. Founders seeking capital should approach the relevant investing partner; portfolio leaders and pre-deal teams can engage Elena on talent, organization and leadership needs.

Pre-deal talent diligencePost-investment organization buildingFounder and leadership development

#51Dr. Bilal Baloch

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Bilal backs globally relevant AI companies where technical capability can be translated into real deployment. His operator and value-creation lens emphasizes more than capital: access to compute, data

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. Shorooq's official equity strategy spans pre-seed through late-stage growth; the Presight–Shorooq AI Fund is a $100M global platform. Treat vehicle size and stage coverage as firm-level context, not Bilal's personal authorization or a promised check size.

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.

#52Sven 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

#53Ali 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

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.

Growth-company advisoryMergers and acquisitionsCapital formation

#54Samir 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

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.

IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#55Michelle Lin

Investment VP

AppWorks

Michelle backs technology that modernizes large, operationally fragmented Southeast Asian industries. Her investment cases combine a clear structural tailwind with deep founder-market fit, resilience

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 Michelle's personal allocation range.

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.

#56Arielle 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

#57Wilson 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 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.

Electric Capital's current website publishes a $1M–$15M+ range from pre-seed through Series A; its January 2026 user-owned-technology thesis says it invests $1M–$20M in that theme. No separate personal range is published for Ren.

#58Ren CF

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

Paradigm invests at every stage, from first check through public markets. Its fourth fund is $1.2 billion, but neither the firm nor Alana publishes a personal check range; the fund size is therefore not treated as her check authority.

#59Alana Palmedo

Managing Partner

Paradigm

Alana co-leads a research- and builder-led strategy that backs ambitious technical founders from first check through public markets. Paradigm began in crypto and now targets the fastest-moving technol

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.

#60Paavo 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 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.

#61Michael 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

#62Nathan Kwon

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Nathan uses tailored private credit to fill the financing gap left by conservative banks and to help technology companies reach their next growth milestone with less equity dilution. His underwriting

No standard personal ticket is published. Shorooq describes Nahda as flexible, tailored debt financing for high-growth and established MENA businesses. Public examples include $15M for Abhi and $12.5M for The Box, but those transactions are examples—not a stated minimum, maximum or personal range.

Growth StageSeries B+Established Companies

#63Nick 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 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.

Norrsken VC currently states €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is the firm's range, not Tove's personal promise. Confirm initial ticket, follow-on reserves, ownership and stage with the team.

#64Tove Larsson

Founding General Partner

Norrsken VC

Tove backs ambitious European technology companies whose commercial growth directly improves outcomes for people or planet. Her Bain private-equity background and early impact roles add rigorous marke

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Tess invests at both early and growth stages and participates in Lux company creation; founders should confirm round fit directly rather than infer an allocation from fund size or disclosed company rounds.

#65Tess van Stekelenburg

Partner

Lux Capital

Tess is a technically trained generalist investing where AI, biology, aerospace, and the physical world intersect. She seeks engineers and scientists turning frontier research into companies, with par

Company CreationSeedSeries A

#66Alison Davis

Founder and Managing Partner; Blockchain Capital Advisor

Blockchain Coinvestors / Fifth Era

Alison invests around technological change in financial services and the transition toward blockchain and Web3. Through Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors she combines a fund-of-funds view of the cr

No Alison-specific check range is public. Blockchain Coinvestors has managed fund-of-funds and direct early-stage token strategies, but vehicle documents and historical target sizes are not personal check-size promises. Founders and managers should identify the relevant vehicle and confirm current allocation capacity.

Venture fund investingFund of fundsEarly-stage technology

#67Shahin Farshchi, PhD

Partner

Lux Capital

Shahin creates and backs generational frontier companies that endow people and machines with new capabilities. An engineer and founder, he looks across AI, chips, compute, autonomy, aerospace, robotic

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Shahin invests from early conviction through enduring scale and has co-founded companies; financing requirements are opportunity-specific and should be confirmed directly.

Company CreationSeedSeries A

#68Deena Shakir

Partner

Lux Capital

Deena backs transformative technologies that improve health, access and economic opportunity, often with extraordinary underdog founders attacking problems conventional pattern recognition overlooks.

Lux does not publish a dependable personal check range for Deena. Her investments span stages, including first institutional rounds and later healthcare financings; founders should confirm vehicle, initial ticket, ownership, reserves and stage fit with the partnership.

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.

#69Grace 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 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.

#70Aristos 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

Maki Fund III currently states €300K–€3M initial tickets in pre-seed and seed rounds below €5M, with follow-on reserves. This is the active firm's range, not Ilkka's personal or current new-deal authority; his stated remit focuses on existing portfolio companies.

#71Ilkka Kivimäki

Founding Partner & Advisor of Maki.vc

Maki.vc (Web3)

Ilkka co-built Maki around entrepreneurial DNA, technical depth, non-consensus first-round decisions and Nordic founders with global category ambition. His documented portfolio work spans gaming, smar

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Institutional Round

#72Nathan 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

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.

Norrsken VC's current live range is €1M–€10M across early stage and selected growth. It is a firm range, not David's personal check. Exact sizing, ownership and reserves depend on the applicable fund and company.

#73David Frykman

Founding General Partner

Norrsken VC

David backs scalable technology businesses that solve major problems and can become enduring category leaders. His long operating, angel and board history adds a company-scaling lens, while his curren

No personal check range is published. Shorooq invests regionally from idea/pre-seed through late-stage growth via different vehicles. Founders should identify the stage-appropriate fund and not infer a check size from Yousef's Partner title or from announced company rounds.

#74Yousef Albabtain

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Yousef backs technology businesses that can become durable leaders in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. His public portfolio and Intelmatix commentary point to a value-investor lens: strong foun

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.

#75Brandon 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

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.

#76Kunal 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

No personal check range is published. Khosla's firm-level Seed and Main Funds span technical experiments through later financings; historical seed commentary cited roughly $1M–$2M. Nicole's additional Capital Formation role should not be read as a disclosed personal check authority.

#77Nicole Fraenkel

Partner & Head of Capital Formation

Khosla Ventures

Nicole backs frontier AI across infrastructure, enterprise, consumer, defense, and biology. Her scientific training in cancer and viral immunology gives her a mechanistic lens for AI–biology convergen

USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks and invests from the earliest stages through the full company journey. This is a firm-wide range, not Albert's personal check authority; decisions are discussed collectively without a formal vote.

#78Albert Wenger

Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Albert is a thesis-driven generalist investing at the edge of large markets under technological and societal pressure. His current work emphasizes AI-enabled scientific discovery, robotics that can op

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.

#79Nicolas 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

Pre-SeedSeed

#80J 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

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.

AngelSeedEarly Stage

#81Michiel 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.

No personal check-size range is published. Dominik's official focus is early stage within Northzone's multi-stage platform; disclosed company rounds should not be treated as his individual allocation range.

#82Dominik Esen

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,

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.

#83Jackie 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

Not applicable to Nat's events role. Lux invests across stages, but no personal allocation authority or check size belongs to this profile. Founder financing pitches should go to Lux's investment team.

#84Nat Turner

Head of Events

Lux Capital

Nat designs the convening layer around Lux's frontier-science and technology network. Her work brings together founders, researchers, executives, investors, journalists and creative leaders in focused

Founder and portfolio communityExecutive conveningThought-leadership programming

#85Lucas 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

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.

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.

#86Nick 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.

#87Fanis 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

#88Anna Lundin

Investment Manager

Norrsken VC

Anna combines Norrsken's impact-return mandate with eight years of strategy, operations and international market expansion at Spotify. Her likely value is testing whether an early impact company can t

Norrsken VC currently publishes €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is a firm range rather than Anna's personal authority. Confirm geography, initial ticket, ownership, reserves and impact qualification through the firm's pitch process.

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.

#89Kindle 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

Series ASeries BGrowth

#90Maggie 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

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.

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 Hayley.

#91Hayley Barna

Partner

First Round Capital

Hayley backs very early founders tackling real-world systems—especially healthcare, climate, supply chain, and commerce—that have been overlooked or written off as unsolvable. As a former founder, she

#92George Saliaris-Fasseas

Partner; Former Operating Partner, Big Pi Ventures

Homerun Investments

George brings an operator-investor lens shaped by building technology ventures, running Google Greece, leading advertising and media businesses, supporting Big Pi portfolio companies and founding an a

Homerun does not publish a George-specific check range or formal stage band. The firm invites technology companies with exceptional growth potential across its stated sectors. Founders should ask directly about vehicle, round and ownership fit rather than relying on Big Pi's separate historical parameters.

Early-stage technologyGrowth companiesOperating support

#93David Gan

Founding General Partner

Inception Capital

David runs a dual strategy: direct early-stage venture investments and backing emerging fund managers, sometimes through management-company or GP stakes. His edge is an East-West network connecting U.

Inception does not publish a David-specific check range on its live site. A 2026 interview described an $80M platform split between a $50M venture fund and $30M fund-of-funds, but vehicle size is not personal check size. Founders should ask directly about current round, ownership and reserve fit.

Inception StagePre-SeedSeed

#94David Long

Co-CIO & General Partner

CV VC

David backs early-stage frontier-technology companies that make enterprise intelligence programmable or rebuild how value and trust move. CV VC's current strategy centers on automation, intelligent B2

CV VC's current founder page states that the firm invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP, initial traction, a pilot product, and revenue. No separate personal check range is published for David.

Pre-SeedSeed

#95John Lindfors

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

DST Global

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or

No John-specific check range is public. DST Global is known for large growth-stage internet investments, but historical firm deal sizes or assets should not be converted into a personal allocation promise. Founders should confirm current stage, geography and round fit directly.

Growth StageLate StageGlobal internet scale-up

#96Ilya 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

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.

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.

#97Jessica 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

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.

#98Molly 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

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.

#99Panos 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

#100Marco 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.