AI startup investors.
VCs, angels, accelerators, and corporates actively backing AI — with portfolio links, round-by-round investment history, and news coverage. 3563 firms tracked.
Y Combinator
The world's leading startup accelerator, founded 2005. Has funded 5,000+ companies including Airbnb, Stripe, OpenAI, and Dropbox.
Andreessen Horowitz
a16z — Silicon Valley firm founded 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. One of the most active backers of AI startups.
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.
Sequoia Capital
Legendary venture firm founded 1972. Early backer of Apple, Google, Stripe, WhatsApp, and many of the largest AI companies.
Khosla Ventures
Founded 2004 by Vinod Khosla. Thesis-driven firm with long conviction on AI, energy, and bio. Early OpenAI investor.
Accel
Global venture firm founded 1983 with offices in Palo Alto, London, and Bangalore. Early investor in Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, and many AI tools.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Multi-stage global firm founded 2000. Active across consumer, enterprise, and AI. Backed Snap, Grubhub, and Affirm.
Index Ventures
Founded 1996 with offices in London, San Francisco, and New York. Backer of Figma, Discord, Roblox, and a wide AI portfolio.
Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners is a veteran venture firm known for its cloud + SaaS leadership.
Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software-focused venture capital and private equity firm based in New York, founded in 1995. The firm closed Fund XIII at $12.5 billion in early 2025 and has deployed approximately $4 billion into AI companies over the past five years. Notable AI investments include Marketing Evolution, InstaLILY, Pasito, and Darwin AI. Recent activity: leading a $25 million Series A in InstaLILY for AI "teammates" in distribution, a $21 million Series A in Pasito for AI-native benefits administration, and a $15 million Series A in Darwin AI for government 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.
NVIDIA
Strategic AI infrastructure investor — Cohere, Inflection, Together AI, Mistral AI.
Pioneer Fund
Venture fund formed by Y Combinator alumni that invests in YC startups.
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.
GV (Google Ventures)
GV (formerly Google Ventures) is the corporate venture arm of Alphabet, headquartered in Mountain View, California, and founded in 2009. The firm deploys roughly $1 billion per year across early- and growth-stage technology investments, with about half of 2025 commitments directed at AI. Notable AI investments include Harvey, Hebbia, Synthesia, Snorkel, SambaNova, Modular, Lightmatter, insitro, and Isomorphic Labs. Recent activity: 62 new investments in 2025 and continued backing of agentic, multimodal, and healthcare-AI companies across the application and infrastructure layers.
Tiger Global Management
New York crossover fund founded 2001. Prolific late-stage investor in AI companies and global tech.
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.
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.
Founders Fund
Founded 2005 by Peter Thiel and partners. Backer of SpaceX, Palantir, Stripe, Anduril, and many frontier AI companies.
New Enterprise Associates
NEA — founded 1977. Multi-stage firm with $25B AUM. Invested across enterprise SaaS, AI infra, and healthcare.
First Round Capital
Seed-stage VC firm focused on technology startups. Notable investments include Uber, Square, Warby Parker, and many AI-native companies. Invests primarily at the pre-seed and seed stages with a focus on category-defining founders.
Battery Ventures
Boston-based VC investing in technology, software, and infrastructure since 1983. Active in AI/ML across enterprise, security, and developer-infrastructure stages. Portfolio includes Coupa, Wayfair, Marketo, Splunk, and AI-native enterprise startups.
8VC
8VC is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, founded in 2015 by Joe Lonsdale and partners after spinning out of Formation 8. The firm manages over $6 billion in capital across funds focused on defense, logistics, healthcare, industrials, and AI, and in 2025 was raising a sixth flagship fund of nearly $1 billion. Notable investments include Palantir, Anduril, Addepar, and OpenGov. Recent activity: a 2025 partnership with Apollo Global Management to accelerate American industrial innovation and continued backing of dual-use AI and defense companies.