500 Startups
VC firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help create successful companies at scale & build thriving global ecosystems.
500 Startups
Martin Garrido
Martin Garrido
Thomas 🍄
Founder at
https://t.co/Sw9XuKSSpB,
https://t.co/oPwmRvI8PD,
https://t.co/uGGrhizDHy,
https://t.co/Q83p3QMs5c 🧚♀️ Product, UX, Service Design, Positioning, Typography, Game Design, Clojure, Tea, …
Thomas 🍄
Joel Beukelman
Joel Beukelman
Daniel Eden
Design Systems Lead for Facebook’s Ads & Business products. Erstwhile Designer & Engineer at Dropbox.
Daniel Eden
Phil LaPier
Phil LaPier
a16z
a16z
Aaron Epstein
Aaron Epstein
Aarron Walter
Aarron Walter
Aatif Awan
Board @ Airlift, Atoms. Ex VP Growth @ LinkedIn
Aatif Awan
Accel
We partner with exceptional founders with unique insights, from inception through all phases of growth.
Accel
Andrew Chung
Company builder & 1955 Capital founder. Inventing a new global future. In search of world-changing ideas in energy, food, ag, health, education & emerging tech.
Andrew Chung
Ada Chen Rekhi
Ada Chen Rekhi
Adam D'Angelo
CEO of Quora
Adam D'Angelo
Adam Nash
Adam Nash
Adam Polselli
Former Design Director at
@Dropbox and Product Designer at Rdio. Pop music and margaritas make life special.
Adam Polselli
adam valkin
Partner at General Catalyst, formerly Accel, Endemol, Arts Alliance, cofounder lovefilm...
husband, dad, tennis player, south african, back in Boston
adam valkin
Adam D'Augelli
VC at True Ventures.
Adam D'Augelli
Alex Clayton
Software investor at Spark Capital
Alex Clayton
Adam Goulburn
Adam Goulburn
aileenlee
Founder of
@CowboyVC. Backer of seed stage founders. Love family, yummy food & beaches.
aileenlee
Airbnb Design
Behind the scenes of Airbnb's creative culture through the lens of our team.
Airbnb Design
Ajay Agarwal
partner with bain cap ventures. investor in bloomreach, sendgrid, gainsight, optimizely, fourkites, shipbob, clari, tellapart, kiva systems, infoscout
Ajay Agarwal
Ajay Chopra
Co-founded Pinnacle Systems and grew it to IPO and a multi billion dollar global company. Now a VC
@trinityventures but still an entrepreneur at heart!
Ajay Chopra
Ajay Kamat
Partner
@PearVC, previously CEO of Wedding Party.
Ajay Kamat
Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛
Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛
Nicholas Jitkoff
VP of Design at Dropbox. Material at Google. Venrock & Blacktree.
Nicholas Jitkoff
Alex Gurevich
Alex Gurevich
Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀
Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀
Alex 🌚
Alex 🌚
Alex Schleifer
Alex Schleifer
Aligned Partners
We are Aligned: a venture firm dedicated to the idea that the interests of founders and investors can and should be aligned.
Aligned Partners
Aliza Rosen
Aliza Rosen
Allan Grinshtein
★★★★☆
Allan Grinshtein
Alon Bonder
Alon Bonder
Ameet Ranadive
CPO @ GetYourGuide. Formerly Product
@Instagram and
@Twitter, Dasient ($TWTR), McKinsey. Love building products, reading, writing, cooking, being a dad.
Ameet Ranadive
amélie lamont
amélie lamont
Amish Jani
Amish Jani
alice lloyd george
alice lloyd george
Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen
Andrew
VP of Design at
@Tonal. I’ve designed things you probably use every day - Uber, Medium, Strava. Former Adaptive Path. I like to poke things with sticks.
#resist
Andrew
ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-man impersonator.
ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ
Andy Budd
Andy Budd
aneel bhusri
Co-Founder & CEO Workday. Board member at Intel.
aneel bhusri
Angela Tran
Angela Tran
Anil Dash 🥭
Helping everyone create the web together at 🎏
@Glitch. Host of
@podcastfunction. 💜 ethical tech, mangoes, funk, transit & justice. he/him
Anil Dash 🥭
Adam Noffsinger
Adam Noffsinger
Joseph Ansanelli
CEO of
@Gladly and Partner at Greylock
Joseph Ansanelli
Antonio
General partner at Matrix Partners. Former founder of Tabblo, ex CTO at HP.
Antonio
Anu Hariharan
Anu Hariharan
Pomp 🌪
Co-founder & Partner at Morgan Creek Digital. I write a daily letter analyzing crypto news for institutional investors:
https://t.co/Cgj59ZUEc8
Pomp 🌪
Alex Rainert 🤦🏻♂️
Alex Rainert 🤦🏻♂️
Alex Rampell
Silicon Valley entrepreneur (TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN, etc), investor (General Partner
@a16z), husband, father, and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)
Alex Rampell
Austin
Director of Product Design
@instagram • 🌈 • Welcome to where you are!
Austin
Arena Ventures
We're a founder-focused venture capital firm that invests in seed and growth stage startups.
Arena Ventures
Ari Helgason
Investor
@IndexVentures. Icelander in London. YC alum. Investing to reshape industries, SaaS, enterprise, frontier technology.
Ari Helgason
Arlan 👊🏾
Arlan 👊🏾
Michael Arrington
Founder of TechCrunch, CrunchBase and Arrington XRP Capital. Be Excellent To Each Other.
Michael Arrington
arteen arabshahi
investing and incubating | wndrco. usually caffeinated, sometimes poetic.
arteen arabshahi
Andy Rubin
Percent of all fresh water on Earth that is in icecaps and glaciers: 99.5 %
Andy Rubin
Andrew Rudmann
App Designer // Really into landscaping // Former VP Design
@Tinder
Andrew Rudmann
Aydin Senkut
Aydin Senkut
ashlie ford
Designer
@twitter, previously
@Apple. Tweets usually about cats, Nebraska football, public transit, TV series, or design systems
ashlie ford
Ash Huang
If you crave whiplash btwn loving creative rah rah and geopolitical doom, welcome home · occasional ICYMI letter
https://t.co/cMlykbCGxs ·
@adobe, tweets mine
Ash Huang
ashu garg
ashu garg
Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen
Aspect Ventures
Aspect Ventures works with leading entrepreneurs across the arc of their companies' growth. We focus on technologies for a multi-platform, multi-device world.
Aspect Ventures
Alex Taussig
Alex Taussig
Atif Raza
PM Microsoft. Student of behavioral economics, markets, products and technology
Atif Raza
Shruti @Array.VC
Shruti @Array.VC
April Underwood
April Underwood
Andy Weissman
real names be proof;
maybe so and maybe not
Andy Weissman
ayo
living at the intersection of afrobeat and fantasy Twitter
ayo
Azeem Azhar
Exponential View. 🔮🌟🤔
Azeem Azhar
Peter Boyce II
Peter Boyce II
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Angel investor. Cofounder of Earn, Counsyl, Teleport, Coin Center. Previously CTO of Coinbase, GP a16z. I hear this Bitcoin thing might be kind of a big deal.
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Barry Eggers
Founding partner
@lightspeedvp. 4G Californian. Fan of elephants, entrepreneurs, sharks, startups, rhinos, and real people.
Barry Eggers
Battery Ventures
Global investment firm with thirty-six years of quiet expertise that speaks volumes.
Battery Ventures
Brian Chesky
Co-founder, CEO, Head of Community @ Airbnb
Brian Chesky
Bernard Dalle
venture capitalist,
@indexventures, with focus on cloud, SAAS, infrastructure
Bernard Dalle
Benjamin De Cock
Benjamin De Cock
Byron Deeter
Byron Deeter
Brad Dickason
I'm a Product Manager on Facebook Spaces that loves simple interfaces, immersive games, and disco music.
Brad Dickason
Bruce
Bruce
Ethan Marcotte
Digs
@drinkerthinker. Ursula Franklin fanboy; meme raccoon; working on design systems at
@VoxProduct. Started that “responsive web design” thing. (
@RWD)
Ethan Marcotte
Mike Beltzner
Canadian in California, works on emerging tech
@Facebook. Dad, tech optimist, problem solver. Not on Twitter much. I want to help you lift enormous things.
Mike Beltzner
Benchmark
Benchmark
Ben Holmes
Angel Investor. Formerly GP at a leading VC.
Ben Holmes
Benedict Evans
Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. Curious. Easily bored. Single parent. Expat in San Francisco.
@a16z.
Benedict Evans
Ben Lerer
Ben Lerer
Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson
Bessemer
For the entrepreneurs who want to build revolutions of their own.
Bessemer
Adam Besvinick
Seed VC focused on healthier living, the environment, and empowerment | Philly and
@DukeU diehard | fantasy football commish | golf / latte / Twitter addict
Adam Besvinick
Betaworks
We build and invest in great companies. Betaworks Studios, our club for builders, is now open. CEO:
@Borthwick.
Betaworks
Martin Eriksson at #mtpontour
Martin Eriksson at #mtpontour
Bill Gurley
VC
@benchmark, Investor:
@grubhub,
@zillow,
@uber,
@stitchfix,
@nextdoor,
@glassdoor,
@hacker0x01,
@solvhealth,
@roverdotcom,
@goodeggs,
@instawork
Bill Gurley
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz
Bijan Sabet
Bijan Sabet
Stuart Ellman
Managing Partner, RRE Ventures
Stuart Ellman
Bill Coughran
Bill Coughran
bing gordon
gamer. fan of Neal Cassady and Bennett Cerf. cycling downhill. Darwinian design. network graphs. General Partner
@kpcb
bing gordon
Biz Stone
Dad, husband, and entrepreneur. Co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. Back at Twitter.
Biz Stone
Blair Reeves
Director of Product at
@SalesforceOrg. Husband and dad, author and blogger. Don't skip leg day. Esse quam videri.
Blair Reeves
Blake Robbins
Blake Robbins
Blake Ross
Blake Ross
Ben Blumenfeld
Co-Director at Designer Fund, investing in leaders and empowering them to improve the world with design. Former Design lead at Facebook.
Ben Blumenfeld
Bob Kocher
Venrock, Schaeffer Center and Stanford working to make healthcare better faster!
Bob Kocher
Niko Bonatsos
Talent is universal, while opportunity is not.
Niko Bonatsos
John Borthwick
John Borthwick
Bo Ren
Bo Ren
David Skok
David Skok
Bowen Pan (潘博文)
Product Manager, Lasso App @ Facebook. Previously was the founding PM on Facebook Marketplace.
Bowen Pan (潘博文)
Brad Frost
I am a web designer, speaker, writer, consultant, and musician in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. Author of Atomic Design.
Brad Frost
Brad Monahan
Design Leadership at Uber
Brad Monahan
Brad Burnham
Brad Burnham
Brandon Chu
vp product & gm platform
@shopify, casual 😇 investor, new dad
Brandon Chu
Brendan Kearns
Designer. Founder of
@RivalLondon. Ex-Google, Twitter, InVision.
Brendan Kearns
Brett Berson
Brett Berson
Brian Donohue
Brian Donohue
Brian Lovin
Brian Lovin
Brian Jacobs
Brian Jacobs
Brianne Kimmel
Brianne Kimmel
Norgard
Norgard
brian pokorny
Some people call me Coach.
brian pokorny
Brian Singerman
Partner at Founders Fund
Brian Singerman
Bryan Roberts
Bryan Roberts
Diana is broccolini
Likes potatoes, cats, & design systems · Design Infrastructure Manager
@GitHub @githubprimer · Organizes Design Systems Coalition
@nyc_dsc · Funny accent 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Diana is broccolini
Brook Porter
Partner
@G2VPLLC Investing in exceptional technologies that are transforming traditional industries. Embracing digitization and promoting sustainability.
Brook Porter
Bryce Roberts
VC, Dad
Bryce Roberts
Bret Taylor
President, Chief Product Officer of
@Salesforce. Previously CEO Quip, CTO Facebook, CEO FriendFeed, co-creator Google Maps. Stanford fan,
@Twitter board member.
Bret Taylor
Bill Trenchard
Seed stage VC at First Round Capital
Bill Trenchard
Bubba Murarka
Bubba Murarka
Buster Benson
Buster Benson
Brady Voss
Designer at Netflix. Love all things water sports. I have a French Bulldog named Coco Pebbles.
Brady Voss
Boris Wertz
Entrepreneur
@abebooks (sold to AMZN) turned investor
@versiononevc. Husband & father of 4. German-Canadian. Love soccer, traveling, running.
Boris Wertz
Alice Lee 👩🏻🎨
5'9 interface instigator turned illustrious illustrator & mural-maker. team work makes the dream work bb. bright eyes ✨
Alice Lee 👩🏻🎨
Blake Byers
I used to be a real scientist
Blake Byers
Bilal Zuberi
Bilal Zuberi
Marty Cagan
I'm a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, specializing in product teams and product strategy - former exec at eBay, Netscape and HP
Marty Cagan
Camille Samuels
Partner
@Venrock investing in health. Recovering NYer. Mom. Unabashedly curious about science, wellness, people, current affairs, and other cool stuff
Camille Samuels
Canvas Ventures
Canvas Ventures
Cap Watkins
Cap Watkins
Aaron Carámbula
Dad. Head of Product Design, Facebook Marketplace. Co-founder
@friendsoftype.
Aaron Carámbula
Kevin Carter
Angel Investor / Advisor at SV Angel
Kevin Carter
Caterina Fake
Host, Should this Exist? Investor, Yes VC. Cofounder: Flickr, Hunch, Sesat School. Etsy. Sundance. Homeschooling, film, literature. Dogs.
Caterina Fake
Chris Dixon
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups, investing
Chris Dixon
Charlie O'Donnell
Xennial. VC @
https://t.co/oVYq4U0pLd. Mets fan, triathlete, cyclist. Friend of the Pod. These are my initials, btw.
Charlie O'Donnell
Chris Gallello
Senior Growth PM
@strava. I also build weird VR things. He/him.
Chris Gallello
Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley
Chad Byers
Chad Byers
Chad Thornton
Design Director at Dropbox. Before that: Medium, Airbnb, Uber, and Google.
Chad Thornton
Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya
Chan Karunamuni
human interface designer at apple
Chan Karunamuni
Nikhil Chandhok
Product Head AR
@FB. Happy to be alive.
Nikhil Chandhok
Asheem Chandna
Asheem Chandna
Charlie Deets
Human Interface Designer at Apple
Charlie Deets
Chi-Hua Chien
cofounder
@goodwatercap. empowering exceptional entrepreneurs who are changing the world. husband, father, follower of Jesus. seeking the renewal of all things.
Chi-Hua Chien
David Chen
Early stage investor
David Chen
Andrew Chin
Andrew Chin
Chloe Sladden
Starting something new, for families. Also: investing, advising, plotting, parenting. Founding Partner
@HashtagAngels. Board member
@Gannett. Alum of
@Twitter.
Chloe Sladden
Chris Fralic
VC
@FirstRound. Technology historian and futurist. Student of business.
Chris Fralic
Chris Messina
Hashtag inventor, speaker, product designer, & TBD. ¶ Citizen of the web.
Chris Messina
Chris Schaepe
Early Stage Venture Capital Investor in Big Ideas
Chris Schaepe
Christophe Tauziet
Design Manager at Uber, leading Uber Money. Previously at Facebook, Apple & Parse.
Christophe Tauziet
Christine Herron
Christine Herron
Charles Warren
Product design here at
@twitter. Pun rights activist. He, his.
Charles Warren
Christian Jensen
Christian Jensen
Charles Moldow
General Partner at Foundation Capital.
Charles Moldow
Colin Dunn
Designing
@navigator. Previously Dropbox and Facebook.
Colin Dunn
Collaborative Fund
Collaborative = (people x stuff) + new technologies^creativity
Collaborative Fund
John Collison
John Collison
Connie Chan
♬ whistle while you work ♫ General Partner
@a16z, Board member
@HYSTA, YGL of
@WEF. I like sharing cross-border trends and learnings from China.
Connie Chan
Cowboy Ventures
Cowboy Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund. We invest in innovative seed stage digital tech companies and help them grow.
Cowboy Ventures
Caroline Cranfill
Caroline Cranfill
Courtney McCrea
Investor at Weathergage Capital.
Courtney McCrea
CrossCultureVC
Early Stage VC investing in infectious tech companies that benefit from global shifts in culture & behavior.
@macventurecapital based in
#LA &
#SF
CrossCultureVC
CRV
CRV has been a leading investor in high-growth technology companies for nearly half a century, focusing on enterprise, consumer & bioengineering.
CRV
Crystal Huang
Crystal Huang
Craig Shapiro
Founder and managing partner
@collabfund. Student of history.
Craig Shapiro
Christiaan Vorkink
supporting amazing founders at
@trueventures. 603 to 415 via 617. heart forever in 207. proud husband and dad.
Christiaan Vorkink
Cyan
UDW - Uncultivated Dark Web
Cyan
Dan Ciruli
Product Manager at Google working on Istio, APIs and Services. All opinions mine. Living in and loving Oaktown, CA.
he/him.
#BLM.
#Ally.
Dan Ciruli
Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross
Danielle Morrill
Danielle Morrill
Daniel Patricio
Daniel Patricio
Daniel Raffel
Daniel Raffel
danny rimer
danny rimer
Darren Geraghty
You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one... Designing in California, made in Ireland. Product
@Facebook
Darren Geraghty
Dave Munichiello
Dave Munichiello
David Beisel
Co-founder & Partner at NextView Ventures (
@NextViewVC), a NYC- & Boston-based VC firm that invests in founders redesigning the Everyday Economy.
David Beisel
David Byttow
Engineer by trade, artist at heart. Grateful to have built things at Bridgewater/Snapchat/Postmates/Google/Square/Medium/Secret/NamcoBandai/DoubleHelixGames
David Byttow
David Cohen
Founder and Managing Partner at
@Techstars. Proud first round investor in startups that are today worth $100B+. Geeky to the bone.
David Cohen
davidcowan
I take credit for others’ work at Skybox, Twitch, LinkedIn, Rocket Lab, Twilio, Auth0, Zapier, CenterForInquiry, CenterForAstro. Co-Visionary at
https://t.co/p8pO6CWxSn.
davidcowan
David Hornik
David Hornik is an investor at August Capital, the author of VentureBlog, & the executive producer of The Lobby Conference.
David Hornik
David Lee
David Lee
David Marcus
David Marcus
David Sacks
Founder who backs founders through
@craft_ventures. Previously: Created two unicorns, invested in a dozen more. Occasional movie producer.
David Sacks
David S. Rose
Venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor
David S. Rose
David Stinnette
David Stinnette
David Sze
Father of three. Lucky husband. Proud brother. Partner
@GreylockVC.
David Sze
Daniel Burka
Director of product and design at Resolve to Save Lives. On the board of Laboratoria. Previously a design partner at Google Ventures.
Daniel Burka
David Cancel
David Cancel
Dana Stalder
Early stage venture capital investor, entrepreneur & internet operator. General Partner
@MatrixPartners.
Dana Stalder
dustin curtis
Designer, investor, nomad. Unreasonable. Deeply flawed. Never satisfied.
dustin curtis
Data Collective
Seed and Series A Deep Tech venture fund.
Data Collective
Ryan Delk
Ryan Delk
Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley
Designer Fund
We invest in leaders and empower them to improve the world with design.
Designer Fund
Uber Design
The design team behind
@uber. Driven to design.
Uber Design
Jonathan Shariat
Jonathan Shariat
Des Traynor
Des Traynor
DFJ Venture Capital
Backing extraordinary entrepreneurs who think big.
DFJ Venture Capital
David Lieb
Product Lead, Google Photos. Previously cofounder/CEO of Bump. Investor in startups. Optimist.
David Lieb
Dharmesh Shah
Dharmesh Shah
DHH
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winning racing driver.
DHH
🦊 D. Keith Robinson
🦊 D. Keith Robinson
doug leone
Partner, Sequoia Capital
doug leone
Doug Pepper
Doug Pepper
Andre Souza
Designer at Apple in California. Tweeting on an incongruent set of topics.
Andre Souza
Drew Hamlin
Drew Hamlin
Drew Houston
Founder/CEO of Dropbox
Drew Houston
Dropbox Design
We believe joy is the engine that powers all the best ideas. We’re designing a more enlightened way of working, so you can love the way you work.
Dropbox Design
Dan Scholnick
Dan Scholnick
dustin senos
dustin senos
David E. Weekly
David E. Weekly
Ed Chao
Human Interface Designer at Apple.
Ed Chao
Ed Suh
Ed Suh
Eric Feng
Co-founder of Packagd and former Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Previously writing sloppy code at Hulu, Flipboard, Erly, and Microsoft.
Eric Feng
Effi Fuks
Effi Fuks
Elad Gil
Entrepreneur and Investor
Elad Gil
Bradley Horowitz
VP Product @ Google
Bradley Horowitz
Elias Roman
Elias Roman
Ellen Chisa
Ellen Chisa
Ellie Wheeler
Ellie Wheeler
Emergence Capital
Early-stage, long-term venture capital. We invest in people who change the way the world works.
Emergence Capital
Greg Emerson
Head of Product at
@HuffPost; fmr mobile PM
@WSJ, Deputy Editor at
@Newsday. Always learning & very optimistic about the future of news.
Greg Emerson
emily
emily
Emily LaFave Olson
Emily LaFave Olson
Enrique Allen
Enrique Allen
Ekin Oflazer
Ekin Oflazer
Eric Hippeau
Venture capitalist (
@lererhippeau.com), entrepreneur, media executive (ex-CEO of The Huffington Post, ex-CEO of Ziff-Davis), passionate about the oceans
Eric Hippeau
Eric Kim
Eric Kim
Eric Ries
Trying to change how startups are built.
Eric Ries
Eric Schmidt
Former Executive Chairman & CEO
Eric Schmidt
Eric Vishria
Eric Vishria
Erik Torenberg
Erik Torenberg
Jared Erondu
Jared Erondu
Emmett Shear
CEO of Twitch, Player of Games
Emmett Shear
eshmu
eshmu
Ethan Kurzweil
Ethan Kurzweil
Erick Tseng
Erick Tseng
Eugene Wei
Eugene Wei
Eurie Kim
Weekdays: hunting for new/exciting ways to buy stuff online Weekends: indulging in SF gastronomy, perfecting my 20' putt, walking my dog
Eurie Kim
Eva Ho
Eva Ho
Jason Evanish
Customer driven product guy. Avid reader. Student of leadership
@Get_Lighthouse. Getting better every day.
Jason Evanish
Evan Spiegel
Evan Spiegel
Evan Tana
Evan Tana
Eric Wiesen
VC at Bullpen. Bias toward action.
Eric Wiesen
Alex Faaborg
Designer on the AR/VR team at Google. I've led the design for Android Wear, Google Now, and the Nexus 5 launcher. Previously the Principal Designer on Firefox.
Alex Faaborg
Facebook Design
We're designing for human needs at unprecedented scale.
Facebook Design
Fareed Mosavat
Helped build some things you may have heard of.
Berkeley, CA
Fareed Mosavat
Shahin Farshchi
Partner
@lux_capital empowering entrepreneurs, funding frontier tech companies. Gearhead, Trekkie, workoutaholic.
Shahin Farshchi
Founder Collective
Founder Collective
Felicis Ventures
Backing iconic companies in their quest to open frontier markets like longevity & engineered foods, and reinvent critical markets like mental health & insurance
Felicis Ventures
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Fika Ventures
Fika Ventures is a seed fund focused on enterprise software, fintech, marketplaces, and digital health companies.
Fika Ventures
Alex Finkelstein
Alex Finkelstein
First Round
Backing remarkable founders from the first moment — not just the first round.
First Round
Sally 💎
Head of Product Design
@duosec // Interested in radically redesigning Tech & amplifying diverse voices.
Sally 💎
Floodgate Fund
Floodgate backs the top .1% Founders before the rest of the world believes in their movements.
Floodgate Fund
Foundation Capital
Building companies is in our bones.
Foundation Capital
Founders Fund
technology, science, venture capital // what does the future look like? ///
#anatomyofnext
Founders Fund
Francis Luu
Francis Luu
Frank Bach
Frank Bach
Fred Wilson
I am a VC
Fred Wilson
Steve Jurvetson
VC. Co-founder of Future Ventures and DFJ — supporting passionate founders who are forging the future. Board Director of SpaceX, Tesla and D-Wave 📡 🚀 🌔
Steve Jurvetson
Gabriel Valdivia
Gabriel Valdivia
Garry()
Garry()
Gary Chou
Gary Chou
Gasca
Gasca
Garrett Camp
Entrepreneur, product designer.
@camp
Garrett Camp
General Catalyst
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that makes early-stage and transformational investments.
General Catalyst
Cemre Güngör
👏 I can’t help you with your IG account 👏
product manager at
@instagram, formerly design cofounder at
@branch (acquired by fb). fav pokemon is snorlax 😍
Cemre Güngör
Geoff Yang
Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures. Boards: AT&T, Franklin Templeton. Private: Esquel Group, LaneOne, Scribd, TasteMade.
Geoff Yang
George Zachary
George Zachary
Gerren Lamson
Gerren Lamson
GGV Capital
GGV Capital
Gibson Biddle
Former Netflix/Chegg VP/CPO. Now, lots of talks, workshops, and writing. Guest lecturer at both INSEAD & Stanford. Live in San Francisco.
Gibson Biddle
gil penchina
Angel investor and Startup guy
gil penchina
George Kedenburg III
George Kedenburg III
Glenn Solomon
Venture capitalist at GGV Capital; Stanford sports enthusiast, former NCAA tennis team champ
#golong
Glenn Solomon
Gloria Baeuerlein
Gloria Baeuerlein
Glen Murphy
Director of Design for Android and Pixel software. Formerly Chrome and Chrome OS. Immigrant. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇹🇭🇺🇲
Glen Murphy
Goodwater Capital
Consumer tech investors. Our mission is to empower exceptional entrepreneurs who are changing the world.
Goodwater Capital
Google Design
Supporting the future of design and technology
Google Design
Pat Grady
Sequoia partner, BC alum, Wyoming native
Pat Grady
Geoff Ralston
President at Y Combinator. Founder, Imagine K12. Angel Investor.
Geoff Ralston
Greg Bettinelli
Greg Bettinelli
Greg Isenberg
me: i build social software
now: product at wework
before: founder of islands (acquired by wework)
Greg Isenberg
Greycroft
A seed-to-growth venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build the world’s most transformative companies.
Greycroft
Greylock Partners
We are company builders and investors. We partner with consumer and enterprise software entrepreneurs.
Greylock Partners
Greyson MacAlpine
Product designer who works hard, plays well and probably likes you. People first. Previously
@uenodotco. Happily growing
@stuuudioco.
Greyson MacAlpine
Geoff Teehan
Head of Design,
@Calibra (
@facebook). Previously Design Director of Facebook News Feed. Co-founded Teehan+Lax in 2002.
Geoff Teehan
Gustaf Alströmer
Gustaf Alströmer
GV Design
Bringing the power of design to startups.
GV Design
Gwen Betts
Director Product Design & Delivery
@rapid7 // Curious adventurer chasing the dream // Eternal optimist //
#design #food #diy // She, her
Gwen Betts
Hans Tung
Hans Tung
Hardi Meybaum
entrepreneur
Hardi Meybaum
Harj Taggar
Harj Taggar
Aaron Harris
Partner at Y Combinator. Co-Founder of Tutorspree. .-. . .- .-.. .-.. -.-- / .-.. --- ...- . ... / -... .- --. . .-.. ...
Aaron Harris
Harry Stebbings
Harry Stebbings
Philipp Hartmann
Philipp Hartmann
#ANGELS
#ANGELS
Hayley Bay Barna
Hayley Bay Barna
Heath W. Black
AI at FB | "When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.' Abraham Joshua Heschel
Heath W. Black
Hemal Shah
Chief R&D Officer
@rootinsuranceco | Formerly built at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & Crashlytics | Forbes under 30 | Golden retrievers make everything better.
Hemal Shah
Marc Hemeon
Head of Product Kosas Past: Facebook AI, Design Inc., Hodinkee, YouTube, Google, Digg - Artist, father, surfer.
Marc Hemeon
Henrik
VP of Design by day (at
@Jetty). Solitaire tournament winner by night.
Henrik
Jonathan Lee
Design
@Google Assistant. I put the 🍕 in pizzazz.
Jonathan Lee
Highland Capital Partners
Venture capital firm partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies.
Highland Capital Partners
Brian Hirsch
Brian Hirsch is a New York based VC, founder & Managing Partner of Tribeca Venture Partners
Brian Hirsch
Howard L Morgan
Venture Capitalist and advisor
Howard L Morgan
Hiten Shah
Hiten Shah
Brooke Hollabaugh
Product Designer
@Tinder. Creative Type. Runner. Lover of Sultry Tunes. Self-Proclaimed Snapchat Chef. The Final Boss.
Brooke Hollabaugh
Homebrew
Homebrew
Hemant Taneja
Investor. Entrepreneur. Author of Unscaled
Hemant Taneja
🧑🏻💻☕️
You'll find me
@homebrew, Seed Stage Venture Fund w
@satyap. Previously made products at YouTube, Google & SecondLife. Married to
@cbarlerin.
🧑🏻💻☕️
Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister
Andy Johns
Partner at Unusual Ventures. Former exec, product, and growth at Wealthfront, Quora, Twitter, and Facebook. Blog at
https://t.co/D9jhPOgNm3
Andy Johns
Kyle Barber
Kyle Barber
Kevin Hale
Kevin Hale
Anish Acharya
Default world: GP @ A16Z, previously: Credit Karma, Snowball, Google (+Ventures), SocialDeck, Amazon; Alter-ego: illscience, playing and producing for 20 years
Anish Acharya
Cindy Padnos
Early stage VC focused on Enterprise software. Prior SaaS founder collaborating with amazing entrepreneurs. Love B2B tech, art, wine & English cocker spaniels.
Cindy Padnos
Ilya Fushman
Ilya Fushman
Ilya Sukhar
Ilya Sukhar
🦊ice cubes ⛄
🐼🐨🐾How are Thailand?
🦊ice cubes ⛄
Index Ventures
Index helps the most ambitious entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses. We back startups across all stages: seed, venture & growth.
Index Ventures
Roger Ehrenberg
Roger Ehrenberg
Roberta Carraro
VP of Design for Developer Experiences
@Salesforce @Heroku. Bullish on distributed teams, emerging markets, dogs. Humanizing the stack. 🇮🇹🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸.
Roberta Carraro
Ivor Tossell
Senior Product Manager @ BuzzFeed CMS
Ivor Tossell
jack 🌍🌏🌎
jack 🌍🌏🌎
Jack Abraham
Founder and Managing Partner of Atomic. Cofounder of Hims, Bungalow, Terminal, Zenreach, TalkIQ (acq. DialPad), Milo (acq. eBay) & more. Angel in 4 $B+ cos
Jack Abraham
Jackie Bavaro
Co-Author of Cracking the PM Interview. Asana Advisor. Previously @ Google & Microsoft. She/Her
Jackie Bavaro
Jake Knapp
Jake Knapp
James Mayes
James Mayes
James Currier
@NFX, 5-time Founder, product designer, investor, father, husband, son.
James Currier
James De Angelis
Product Design
@Lyft, formerly
@Pinterest. Australian. I have an inner corgi.
James De Angelis
James Yu
James Yu
Jamie Davidson
Jamie Davidson
Jamie Quint
Jamie Quint
Jana Messerschmidt
Jana Messerschmidt
jan
jan
Jared Sleeper
Jared Sleeper
jason@calacanis.com
jason@calacanis.com
Jason Costa
Jason Costa
Jason Fried
Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Non-serial entrepreneur. Co-author of Getting Real, REWORK, Remote, and “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work”.
Jason Fried
Jason Santa Maria
Designer by day, designer by night. he/him
Jason Santa Maria
Jason Toff
Building something new
@facebook. Previously: Area 120 // Google VR // Vine // YouTube // Gmail // Chrome. Angel investor.
Jason Toff
Jason Shah
Jason Shah
Javelin VP
Early stage venture capital with the culture of a start-up and the spirit of die hard entrepreneurs
Javelin VP
Jay Hass
Venture Capitalist, poet, energizer
Jay Hass
John Zeratsky
Bestselling author of Sprint and Make Time. Speaker, designer, entrepreneur. Helping you make time for what matters.
https://t.co/nhiuyaOgeQ
John Zeratsky
Jasmine Friedl
Director of Design
@intercom. Previously at
@udacity, CZI, and
@facebook. Dabbler in Writing, Champagne Enthusiast and Proud Puppy Dog Parent. (she/her)
Jasmine Friedl
Judith Elsea
Managing Director, Weathergage Capital
Judith Elsea
ⒿⒹⒽ
ⒿⒹⒽ
James D Robinson III
GP
@RRE Ventures; Former CEO - American Express
James D Robinson III
@jdrive
Roughly 70% water. Also: VC / Entrepreneur / Volunteer / Tinkerer
@jdrive
jedmund is closeby
bleeding twitter followers
jedmund is closeby
Jeff Clavier
Founder of Uncork Capital, one of the OG micro-VC firms. Invested in 200+ cos.
@bernadette hubby, dad of 2, wino, skier, happily living in Palo Alto/SF/Kirkwood
Jeff Clavier
Jeff Jordan
Tech investor at a16z, proud father, sports fan, outdoors nut.
Jeff Jordan
Jeff Crowe
Jeff Crowe
Jeff Patton
I like making great products, or even pretty good ones. I like helping others do the same. I wrote a book:
http://t.co/edixKQSNUy
Jeff Patton
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith
Jen Cotton🔥
Jen Cotton🔥
Jenny Lee
VC
@GGVcapital, former jet engineer, dreamer and explorer
Jenny Lee
Jenny Lefcourt
Seed investor
@Freestylevc, serial entrepreneur, founding member
@AllRaise, and avid scuba diver. Happily married mom of 3!
Jenny Lefcourt
Jeremy Goldberg
Design Manager on Messenger at Facebook. Previously at Google. Working on
@askplaybook
Jeremy Goldberg
Jeremy Stoppelman
Co-founder and CEO of Yelp
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Liew, Partner at Lightspeed
Jeremy Liew, Partner at Lightspeed
Jerry Chen
Jerry Chen
jesar 💭
jesar 💭
Jessica Verrilli
Jessica Verrilli
Jesse Bennett-Cha...
Principal Designer at Shopify
Jesse Bennett-Cha...
Jessica Hische
New York Times Bestselling Author, Lettering Artist, Over-Sharer, Parent of Small People. New book: Tomorrow I’ll be Kind (Jan 2020)
Jessica Hische
Jessica Livingston
Co-founder, Y Combinator
Jessica Livingston
Jennifer Fonstad
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Owl Capital Group; Venture Investing; Broadway Angels co-founder; member, Council on Foreign Relations; 4 amazing children
Jennifer Fonstad
Joe Gebbia
Joe Gebbia
Josh Silverman
Josh Silverman
jim goetz
investor, sequoia capital
jim goetz
Jim Breyer
https://t.co/mbMUWbOZo1, venture capital/investing/venture philanthropy in US, China, Africa and India. Smiles and Laughter
Jim Breyer
design systems gelfling in miami
design systems gelfling in miami
Jinen Kamdar
chief product officer at modern health. former vp of product at buzzfeed, and director of product at twitter. ❤️ belongs to
@reha and
@diya (and 90s hip hop).
Jinen Kamdar
Jesse James Garrett 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸
Design leadership coach at Capital One. History: Adaptive Path, The Elements of User Experience, Ajax. The history of the future begins now. He/him.
Jesse James Garrett 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸
Jonathan Katzman
Chief Product Officer at The Minerva Project
Jonathan Katzman
Jon Lax
It's a daily operation | AR/VR Design at Facebook | From the 416, now in the 415
Jon Lax
Jean-Marc Denis
Jean-Marc Denis
John Melas-Kyriazi
John Melas-Kyriazi
Jeff Morris Jr.
Jeff Morris Jr.
Joanne Yuan
investing in saas at turn/river capital. runs, cooks and defends new jersey.
Joanne Yuan
Joanne Chen
Partner
@FoundationCap. Recovering banker. Engineer at heart. Passionate foodphile. Part Canadian, part Chinese, and 100%
@CalBears
Joanne Chen
Joe Zadeh
VP
@Airbnb, Head of Airbnb Experiences
Joe Zadeh
Joel Gascoigne
Co-founder & CEO of
@Buffer: a platform to help build your brand on social media. Finding my own path for business and life. Traveler, skier, surfer.
Joel Gascoigne
John Frankel 🚶♂️
Longtime tech investor. Early stage venture capitalist. builder. Love working with energetic entrepreneurs working to change the world.
John Frankel 🚶♂️
John Battelle
CEO
@TheRecount, a founder of NewCo, sovrn, Federated Media, Web 2 Summit, Industry Standard, Wired; investor/writer on Media, Tech, Culture, Business.
John Battelle
John Cutler
John Cutler
John Doerr
Passionate about helping missionary entrepreneurs create the Next Big Thing. General partner
@KPCB.
John Doerr
John Elton
John Elton
John Jarve
Venture Capitalist at Menlo Ventures since 1985.
John Jarve
John Maeda
John Maeda
Johnnie Manzari
Human Interface Designer at Apple
Johnnie Manzari
John Lilly
Former GP@Greylock, CEO@Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd. Current board of Code for America, VotingWorks, Figma, Caffeine, Crew, Clockwise, Angle.
John Lilly
jonathan ehrlich
Partner at Foundation Capital. Ran Marketing for Facebook. Dad.
jonathan ehrlich
👾 Jonathan Crawford
Product leader. Rails engineer. Designer. Former CEO
@storenvy + EIR
@500Startups. Raised VC. Exited. Now: Supporting founders & singing karaoke.
👾 Jonathan Crawford
Jon Gold
musician, artist & technologist in search of source · germinating
@cosmiccomlab · ADHD · he/him
Jon Gold
Jon Wiley
Director, Google AR/VR. Previously lead designer Google Search; co-founder Material Design. Occasional actor. Native Texan. My opinions are my opinions. he/him
Jon Wiley
Jordan Staniscia 👽
Design at
@goabstract✨Past: Lead at
@Instacart, Storify. Every day ends with Curb your Enthusiasm outro music.
Jordan Staniscia 👽
Jorge Conde
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
@a16z
Jorge Conde
Jorn van Dijk
Jorn van Dijk
Josh Anon
Head of Product @ Embodied making robots. Photographer. Ex-Director Product Management at Magic Leap, ex-Lytro PM, ex-Pixar. Views are my own.
Josh Anon
Josh Elman
Josh Elman
Josh Kopelman
VC. Father. Geek. INTJ
Josh Kopelman
Josh Miller
Josh Miller
Josh Felser
Josh Felser
Josh Puckett
Co-Founder of Upperstudy. Founding design partner
@CombineVC; led teams at Dropbox, Groupon, Wealthfront. I help startups and designers. Aspiring chef, 8w7
Josh Puckett
Josh Stein
Managing Partner and co-founder at Threshold Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Threshold tweets at
@thresholdvc
Josh Stein
joshua schachter
joshua schachter
Joshua Taylor
Joshua Taylor
Josh Wilburne 💩
Josh Wilburne 💩
Julie Zhuo
Product design VP @ Facebook. Author of The Making of a Manager
https://t.co/IfSZWJfEhT. I love people, words, and food. Join my Q&A mailing list ⬇️
Julie Zhuo
Jonathan Golden
Partner
@NEA, Previously Director of Product
@Airbnb and Product
@Dropbox, Dad of three under 3
Jonathan Golden
Jason Pressman
Jason Pressman
Jeff Richards
Managing Partner
@GGVCapital, $6.2B global venture capital firm, 2X founder, praying for
@Dartmouth hoops return to Final Four
Jeff Richards
jeremy friedland
jeremy friedland
J.T. Trollman
Product design manager
@Facebook; passion project
@MADA_hosts. Previously cofounder of Happiness Engines. I believe in people. Opinions my own. He/him.
J.T. Trollman
Jules Walter
Jules Walter
Jules Forrest
Jules Forrest
Jules Maltz
Jules Maltz
Justin Kan
Be kind to yourself. If you won’t, who will? Entrepreneur & investor.
@atrium
Justin Kan
Justin Pervorse
Justin Pervorse
hi, its madhu.
hi, its madhu.
Somas Thyagaraja
Somas Thyagaraja
John Vrionis
Aspiring man for others. Father of 3. Husband. Founder
@Unusual_VC
John Vrionis
Kara Nortman
Kara Nortman
Karim Faris
Partner @ Google Ventures, Dad of 3
Karim Faris
Karl Mehta
Karl Mehta
Karri Saarinen
Karri Saarinen
Kate Aronowitz
Kate Aronowitz
Kate Mitchell
Kate Mitchell
Katie Jacobs Stanton
Katie Jacobs Stanton
Kayvon Beykpour
Kayvon Beykpour
Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌
Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌
Kelly Bishop
Kelly Bishop
Kelton Lynn
Kelton Lynn
Ken Howery
Personal account.
US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden;
Co-founder and former Partner, Founders Fund;
Co-founder, PayPal
Ken Howery
Ken Lerer
Ken Lerer
Ken Norton
Senior Operating Partner, GV (Google Ventures)
@GVTeam. Long-time
@Google product manager. Always bring the donuts. These are my own opinions not my employer's.
Ken Norton
Richard Kerby
investor of time and occasionally money
Richard Kerby
Keval Desai
Keval Desai
Kevin Colleran
Venture Capital Investor
@Slow Ventures. Early Employee
@Facebook. Husband. Dad of 2 boys.
Kevin Colleran
Kevin Hartz
Founder & Investor. Co-Founder and Chairman of $EB. Co-Founder
@xoom. Early investor $PYPL, $PINS,
@airbnb ++
Kevin Hartz
Kevin Harvey
Kevin Harvey
Kevin Rose ⛩
Kevin Rose ⛩
Kevin Weil
Kevin Weil
Kevin Zhang
I eat a lot, spend too much $ on games & need to work out to counteract the former, so esp interested in founders innovating in the above. Partner
@UpfrontVC
Kevin Zhang
Khoi Vinh
Khoi Vinh
Khosla Ventures
venture assistance
Khosla Ventures
Kim Goodwin
Author: Designing for the Digital Age. Consultant. Design & product exec. Researcher. Speaker & teacher. Wildlife photographer. Fitness nerd. Insta: Kim.goodwin
Kim Goodwin
Kirsten Green
Investor at
@ForerunnerVC. Admiration for quality brands, fascination with consumer behavior, love for the entrepreneurial journey.
Kirsten Green
Kenton Kivestu 🤔🤔🤔
Kenton Kivestu 🤔🤔🤔
Kleiner Perkins
For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has made history by partnering with some of the most ingenious and forward-thinking founders in technology.
Kleiner Perkins
Kanyi Maqubela
lover, not-fighter. building startups.
Kanyi Maqubela
Kobie Fuller
GP at Upfront Ventures / Co-Founder of Valence / Washed up sprinter / Fashion Lover /
Kobie Fuller
Sebastien Gabriel
Design
@google. Chrome OS, Android, Chrome browser.
Sebastien Gabriel
Braden Kowitz
Braden Kowitz
David Krane
David Krane
Kristy Tillman
Kristy Tillman
katie zhu
half lit half trash. making art and stuff. DM for prints + collabs 🌸
katie zhu
Kurt Varner
On sabbatical. Traveling the world and spending time to think. Formerly, Design Director
@Dropbox
Kurt Varner
Justin Kwak
Justin Kwak
Krishna Yeshwant
Krishna Yeshwant
Lars Dalgaard
@Glidesf (7 years). Investor. Accepted $3.4B offer for labor of luv; SuccessFactors. GP Luv Ventures. Board partner a16z
Lars Dalgaard
Laura Klein
Principal at Users Know & Author of UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products; Podcast at What is Wrong with UX
Pronouns: She/Her
Laura Klein
Lauren Kolodny
Lauren Kolodny
Lea Verou
Lea Verou
Lee Hower
Co-founder & Partner of NextView Ventures, former entrepreneur at LinkedIn and PayPal, general helper of startups
Lee Hower
Lemnos
Lemnos is an early-stage venture fund that thrives in the earliest stages of building hardware, when each decision is crucial to success or failure.
Lemnos
Lerer Hippeau
Based in New York City, Lerer Hippeau empowers early-stage founders with the capital and tools they need to build ideas into category-defining companies.
Lerer Hippeau
sam lessin
sam lessin
Aaron Levie
Lead Magician (and CEO) at Box (
@box); Huge ABBA fan. I don't fully endorse anything I say below. Go ☁
Aaron Levie
Lightspeed
Lightspeed
