Partners

• Upfront Ventures

  Upfront Ventures is the largest venture capital fund based in Los Angeles, with more than $1 billion invested nationally since 1996 in early-stage tech companies such as Ring, Maker Studios, TrueCar, Overture and Envestnet. Key current investments include Bird, GOAT, Parachute Home, Kyriba, thredUP, Apeel Sciences, Valence and Invoca.
• Lightspeed Venture Partners

  Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 350 companies globally, including Snap, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, StitchFix, and GrubHub.
• GGV Capital

  GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments across Consumer/New Retail, Social/Digital & Internet, Enterprise/Cloud, and Frontier Tech sectors. The firm was founded in 2000 and manages $6.2 billion in capital across 13 funds. Past and present portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Alibaba, Poshmark, Slack, Ctrip, Grab, Gladly, Hello Chuxing, HashiCorp, Houzz, and more.
• Foundry Group

  Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making early-stage technology investments, participating in select growth rounds, and identifying & supporting the next generation of venture fund managers. Our passion is working alongside entrepreneurs to give birth to new technologies and to build those technologies into industry-leading companies. We also seek to leverage our experience & relationships as fund managers to help new & existing venture firms create industry-leading businesses.
• MaC Venture Capital

  MaC Venture Capital is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures & M Ventures. MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. We invest in tech companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends & behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace. We help entrepreneurs bring the future into focus to find their breakthrough moment.
• 645 Ventures

  645 Ventures invests in early-stage startups in SaaS, infrastructure software, and consumer technologies, partnering with founders to build growth-stage businesses that reach massive scale. They champion outbound value creation by combining operational expertise with an elite network that actively influences portfolio outcomes. They are backed by premier institutional LPs such as Princeton University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Spelman College, as well as influential business and technology leaders who serve on the boards of companies such as Google, Facebook, and Walmart.
• Squire

  Squire is a booking & payment platform that connects people with great barbers, making it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments, and better market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. It's a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business.
• Hingeto

  Hingeto is a Y-combinator backed retail technology company that is revolutionizing the way products are sold. In 2015, the company embarked on a mission to eliminate inventory risk from retail. Their B2B marketplace uses modern technology to connect all the world’s online storefronts to all the world’s best brands. Pioneering retailers like Pacsun, Lootcrate, Beautycon, and ScaryMommy are using the platform everyday to grow their sales.
• STEMBoard

  STEMBoard is a SBA Certified 8(a) graduate of the Department of Defense Mentor Protégé program with experience in delivering quality engineering services in data modernization, intelligence driven analytics and IT consulting for a variety of Federal agencies. It provides data availability by establishing scalable methods to clean, tag and ingest mission relevant datasets; assists in the development and instantiation of cloud environments to deliver structured and unstructured data; and is experienced in the use of Cloud Data Service Architectures.
• Bessemer

  Bessemer Venture Partners was born from innovations in steel that literally forged modern building and manufacturing. Today, they work with people who want to create revolutions of their own. Their partners help founders lay enduring foundations to create companies that matter, starting with seed and Series A investments and sticking with their companies at every stage of their growth. They've been part of over 120 IPOs in the last 50 years, including Shopify, Yelp, LinkedIn, and Skype.
• Base10 Partners

  Base10 is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who are bringing automation to traditional sectors of the economy — what we call automation of the real economy. Base10 is headquartered in San Francisco.
• Active Faith Sports

  Active Faith Sports is a premium Christian apparel brand based in Houston, TX. Active Faith was founded in 2010 and launched in 2012 with the vision to use the platform that sports provide to share the gospel and inspire people to not only be active physically, but active in their faith. They saw that the giant brands in sports apparel did not create products that represented who we were in our faith. So, we sought out to fill that void and create a brand that was bold about what we believe in. Our premium sports apparel is manufactured with the highest quality to meet the standards of both professional athletes and everyday people. Whether it's worn to represent your faith and minister to others, or if it's worn for the intrinsic value it provides for its owner, Active Faith is more than just another sports apparel brand.
• Rapidly

  Online platform that connects US taxpayers and business owners with tax and accounting firms, virtually and year-round. By building software tools for clients to find experienced professionals and for firms to improve their operations, Rapidly is on a mission to improve connectivity, accessibility, and efficiency for the tax and accounting industry. Rapidly is rapidly (no pun intended!) improving and developing our product to be able to stay up-to-date with ever-changing tax regulations.
• MassChallenge

  MassChallenge is an early-stage accelerator with a global reach and our mission is to help founders from all over the world scale and grow their startup.
• Athena

  Athena is a global, digital community for the top women in business. We support women rise into the C-suite and boardroom. We also help businesses and boards consider the types of leaders they need on their boards if they want to remain relevant, and fast track their connections to female leaders to help them. We work on both sides of the equation. We have helped 400+ private and public companies think through and identify the right person to join their board from series A startups to the F500.
• BLCK VC

  BLCK VC empowers and supports Black investors, while increasing diversity in venture capital.