Investor Partners
Plug and Play Tech Center has established partnerships with top-tier venture capital companies such as Norwest Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Battery V Foundation Capital and Accel Partners.
These relationships offer a win-win relationship for both the startup and the VC community.
Founded in 2000 and based in Menlo Park, CA, Formative Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the industry's next-generation emerging technologies leaders in areas such as communications, wireless, and next-generation Internet solutions.
Foundation Capital is an investment firm run primarily by entrepreneurs. Each partner left a successful career in industry to work in venture capital in order to work with other entrepreneurs to build great new companies.
Foundation Capital is an investment firm run primarily by entrepreneurs. Each partner left a successful career in industry to work in venture capital in order to work with other entrepreneurs to build great new companies.
While our venture experience is deep, what truly sets us apart is that we have founded and grown our own companies. We understand why people choose to start companies instead of pursuing the anonymous safety of working for others and the challenges and rewards that come with such pursuit.
We have been through every stage of the start-up process, from inception to IPO, and commit the full range of our experience as well as our financial resources to ensure that our companies succeed.
Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making investments in early-stage information technology, Internet and software startups. Our passion is working alongside entrepreneurs to give birth to new technologies and to build those technologies into industry-leading companies. We’re centrally located in Boulder, CO, but we invest in companies across North America.
Foxconn Technology Group is the most dependable partner for joint-design, joint-development, manufacturing, assembly and after-sales services to global Computer, Communication and Consumer-electronics ("3C") leaders. Aided by its legendary green manufacturing execution, uncompromising customer devotion and its award-winning proprietary business model, eCMMS, Foxconn has been the most trusted name in contract manufacturing services (including CEM, EMS, ODM and CMMS) in the world.
With $7 billion of capital under management, Francisco Partners is one of the world’s largest technology-focused private equity funds. The firm was founded to pursue structured investments in technology companies undergoing strategic, technological, and operational inflection points. Francisco Partners targets control investments in private companies, with transaction values ranging from $30 million to $2 billion.
Fuse Capital is a dynamic, evolutionary partnership, but we are not new to the business. Our partners have led large companies like Fox Interactive Media, Inktomi, Alta Vista and start ups like Sportsline.com and Webvibes, and have invested in standouts like Broadcom, PairGain, Ascend, SiteSmith and Chromatis. We are focused on working as a team with our partners. This teamwork extends around the world, with partners strategically located to help our companies in person.
Garage Technology Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. We’re looking to invest in entrepreneurial teams with big ideas and a need for seed capital to turn their ideas into great companies.
We are willing to invest in unproven teams attacking unproven markets with unproven solutions. We’re not interested in teams that are creating the nth solution to the same old problem nor companies who are trying to improve things by only 10 or 20 percent.
There’s a simple premise behind the founding of General Catalyst in 2000: entrepreneurs are best served by those who've been in their shoes. In fact, all of GC’s managing directors are accomplished entrepreneurs in their own right. We’re familiar with the challenges you face. And we thrive on our ability to use our entrepreneurial experience to assist, guide, and nurture entrepreneurs on their journey.
GGV Capital™ (formerly Granite Global Ventures) leads expansion stage venture capital investments across the United States and China.
One Team. Global Focus.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage companies. The firm also invests in incubation. It invests in software, network, security, media and entertainment, next generation web service, e-commerce, bio and healthcare, and green technology sectors. The firm prefers to invest in foreign ventures with superior technologies and products/services, which benefit from entering into Japanese market or having partnerships with Japanese companies.
Global Catalyst Partners is an international, multistage, technology-oriented venture capital firm. Our partners have significant operating experience serving in large public companies as well as building entrepreneurial ventures into major public companies.
Globespan Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with over $1 Billion under management. Globespan primarily invests in go-to-market rounds of information technology, Internet, mobile and cleantech companies. Our investment team has a proven track record of effectively working with entrepreneurs, top tier co-investors and strategic partners to help build market-leading companies.
Their team has broad business expertise - from strategy to operations - and investment experience in industries that range from networking, Internet and communications, to life sciences, media, and entertainment. They are passionate about their work. Their strong relationships and mutual support enable them to work closely, combining the right elements that best benefit their portfolio companies and investors.
Gold Hill Capital is an independent, private venture firm focused on providing debt and equity capital to companies within the technology and life science industries. Gold Hill is capitalized by top-tier institutional investors with aggregate investment capital of approximately $1 billion deployed over two funds.
Granite Ventures has helped early-stage technology companies build solid foundations for success since 1992, when we began investing as the early-stage venture capital group within Hambrecht & Quist. Granite became an independent firm in 1998, but continues to leverage decades of investment and technology experience to benefit and create value for our portfolio companies.
Greylock-backed companies include Constant Contact (NasdaqGS:CTCT), Data Domain (EMC),DoubleClick (Google), Farecast (Microsoft), LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), Pandora (NYSE:P), Red Hat(NYSE:RHT), RightNow Technologies (NasdaqGS:RNOW), Success Factors (Nasdaq:SFSF) and Zipcar(NasdaqGS: ZIP). We continue to invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, Apptio,Cloudera, Facebook, Groupon, Imperva, One Kings Lane, Palo Alto Networks, Redfin, Shopkick andWorkday.
GRP Partners was founded in 1996 with the mission to help entrepreneurs achieve their goals of building big, transformative businesses. The partners of GRP have been involved with many startups over the years, of which 15 stand out companies have achieved exit valuations above $1 billion. We’re proud of this accomplishment and the diversity of teams that we’ve backed – notably that all of our biggest wins have come from outside of Silicon Valley.
GSR Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests primarily in early and growth stage technology companies with substantial operations in China.
China has some of the world's largest and fastest growing technology markets. We strongly believe that with large and homogeneous technology markets, talented entrepreneurs and the emergence of disruptive technology, the next generation of global leaders in technology will emerge from China.
Formed in 2010, Harbor Pacific primarily invests in opportunities where we, along with our relationships, networks, and resources in Asia, have the ability to provide unique advantages to our portfolio companies.
HarbourVest is a leading global private equity investment firm with a long history of innovation and success. For nearly 30 years, we have invested in private equity, gaining invaluable expertise and developing long-term relationships with sought-after partners along the way. We strive to generate strong returns through investing in premier partnerships, in secondary investments, and directly in operating companies.
Harris & Harris Group, Inc., is a publicly traded venture capital firm exclusively focused on investing in companies enabled by nanotechnology and microsystems. With over 30 nanotechnology companies in our portfolio, Harris & Harris Group, Inc., is one of the most active nanotechnology investors in the world.
Hercules Technology Growth Capital (NASDAQ: HTGC) is the leading specialty finance company addressing the financing needs of venture backed companies by providing debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies, including those in the cleantech, life sciences and lower middle market sectors, to help achieve critical milestones throughout all stages of development.
