AI startup investors.
VCs, angels, accelerators, and corporates actively backing AI — with portfolio links, round-by-round investment history, and news coverage. 2716 firms tracked.
Andreessen Horowitz
a16z — Silicon Valley firm founded 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. One of the most active backers of AI startups.
Sequoia Capital
Legendary venture firm founded 1972. Early backer of Apple, Google, Stripe, WhatsApp, and many of the largest AI companies.
General Catalyst
General Catalyst is a venture and growth-equity firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. Founded in 2000, the firm manages more than $43 billion in assets and closed roughly $8 billion of new capital in Fund XII, including $4.5 billion for core VC and $1.5 billion for its AI-roll-up Creation strategy. Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Mistral AI, Hippocratic AI, and Helsing. Recent activity: a $1 billion non-dilutive financing for Grammarly in May 2025.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Multi-stage global firm founded 2000. Active across consumer, enterprise, and AI. Backed Snap, Grubhub, and Affirm.
NVIDIA
Strategic AI infrastructure investor — Cohere, Inflection, Together AI, Mistral AI.
Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, focused on early- and growth-stage technology investing. Founded in 1972, the firm manages over $21 billion in assets and in March 2026 closed $3.5 billion across two AI-focused vehicles: $1 billion for KP22 (early stage) and $2.5 billion for KP Select IV (growth). Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks, Waymo, and Rogo. Recent activity: leading Rogo's $160 million Series D for an AI operating system for investment banking.
Tiger Global Management
New York crossover fund founded 2001. Prolific late-stage investor in AI companies and global tech.
Accel
Global venture firm founded 1983 with offices in Palo Alto, London, and Bangalore. Early investor in Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, and many AI tools.
Coatue Management
Coatue Management is a Tiger-cub crossover investment firm based in New York, founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont. Coatue manages approximately $40.8 billion across public hedge funds and private growth vehicles, investing across the AI stack from chips and data centers to applications. Notable AI-related positions include Nvidia, CoreWeave, Oracle, Arm Holdings, Broadcom, Synopsys, Applied Materials, Snowflake, and Anthropic. Recent activity: rebalancing the portfolio toward AI infrastructure in 2025, with new stakes in Oracle and Arm and significant additions to CoreWeave.
Spark Capital
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and New York, founded in 2005. The firm manages more than $12 billion across 21 funds and in 2024 raised $2.3 billion across Spark Capital VIII ($700M) and Spark Growth V ($1.4B). Sectors span consumer, enterprise software, AI, fintech, gaming, and infrastructure. Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Anrok, and The Bot Company. Recent activity: co-leading The Bot Company's $150 million Series A and Anrok's $55 million Series C in 2025.
Thrive Capital
Thrive Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2010 by Joshua Kushner. The firm raised more than $10 billion across its Fund X family in 2025-2026, its largest vehicles to date, covering early-stage, growth, and opportunities investing. Notable AI investments include OpenAI, Anysphere (Cursor), Databricks, Anduril, and Isomorphic Labs. Recent activity: a roughly $1 billion follow-on into OpenAI at a $285 billion valuation, and the launch of Thrive Holdings to acquire AI-enabled traditional businesses.
Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group invests strategically in AI infrastructure and applied AI companies.
Founders Fund
Founded 2005 by Peter Thiel and partners. Backer of SpaceX, Palantir, Stripe, Anduril, and many frontier AI companies.
Index Ventures
Founded 1996 with offices in London, San Francisco, and New York. Backer of Figma, Discord, Roblox, and a wide AI portfolio.
Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Salesforce, founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco. The unit operates a $1 billion AI fund (fully deployed by year-end 2025 across 35 companies) and a broader enterprise software portfolio collectively valued at over $270 billion. Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Cohere, ElevenLabs, Together AI, Runway, Writer, and World Labs. Recent activity: closing out the $1B AI fund in 2025 with new commitments to fal AI, Lovable, and LiveKit, plus expanded follow-ons into existing portfolio companies.
IVP
IVP is a later-stage venture capital firm with a long history of leading hyper-growth rounds.
Benchmark
Concentrated early-stage firm founded 1995. Known for Uber, Twitter, Snap. Low volume, high conviction.
ICONIQ Growth
ICONIQ Growth is the growth-stage arm of ICONIQ Capital, with a track record of leading large AI and SaaS rounds.
New Enterprise Associates
NEA is one of the world's largest venture capital firms, leading rounds across enterprise software, AI, and healthcare.
Khosla Ventures
Founded 2004 by Vinod Khosla. Thesis-driven firm with long conviction on AI, energy, and bio. Early OpenAI investor.
Menlo Ventures
Menlo Park-based VC backing technology companies since 1976. Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Beautiful.ai, and Tessell. Multi-stage investor across consumer and enterprise software.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a US technology corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, founded in 1975, and one of the largest strategic AI investors. Through commitments to OpenAI it has deployed roughly $11.6 billion of a $13 billion pledge, holding a 26.79% economic stake in OpenAI Group PBC following the October 2025 restructuring. Notable AI partnerships include OpenAI, Mistral, and Inflection. Recent activity: an $80 billion FY25 AI infrastructure capex plan and the launch of in-house MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Transcribe-1, and MAI-Image-2 models.
Valor Equity Partners
Growth-stage operational investor backing transformative companies including SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, Anduril, and Hummingbird.
Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures is the venture arm of Bain Capital, deploying from a single multi-stage platform that writes cheques from seed through growth. The team is structured around verticals, with deep coverage of enterprise SaaS, fintech, infrastructure, and applied AI. BCV led or participated in Hightouch's $150M Series D and historically backed companies including Rippling, LinkedIn, and SendGrid. The firm pairs venture capital with access to Bain Capital's broader credit, public equities, and private equity platforms for portfolio companies.