In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel is an independent non-profit strategic investor chartered in 1999 at the request of the CIA. It invests in startups with dual-use technology relevant to national security and helps connect them with the intelligence community and other US government customers; it also has offices in London and Sydney.
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European Innovation Council
The European Innovation Council is an EU body under Horizon Europe that supports breakthrough technologies and fast-growing companies. Through the EIC Accelerator it offers deep tech startups and SMEs grants of up to 2.5 million euros combined with equity investments of 0.5 to 15 million euros from the EIC Fund.
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Temasek
Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, incorporated in 1974 and owned by the Singapore government but run on commercial principles. Its net portfolio value was S$518 billion as of 31 March 2026, and it treats AI as a core investment theme.
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SoftBank Vision Fund
The SoftBank Vision Funds are technology investment funds of SoftBank Group: Vision Fund 1, launched in 2017 and managed by SB Investment Advisers, and Vision Fund 2, managed by SB Global Advisers. They invest in growth-stage technology companies with a strong focus on AI.
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Obvious Ventures
Obvious Ventures is a venture firm founded in 2014 by Ev Williams, James Joaquin and Vishal Vasishth around what it calls world positive investing, backing companies that aim to deliver strong returns while addressing major problems. It was an early investor in Beyond Meat and Virta Health.
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Eclipse
Eclipse is a Palo Alto venture firm founded in 2015 by Lior Susan that invests in companies transforming physical industries, an area it increasingly describes as physical AI. In April 2026 it raised $1.3 billion across Fund VI, an early-stage fund of $720 million, and Early Growth Fund III of $591 million.
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SOSV
SOSV is a global venture firm founded in 1995 by Sean O'Sullivan, focused on advancing human and planetary health. Its flagship accelerators are IndieBio for life sciences and HAX for hardware, and each year it selects about 60 pre-seed startups for programs based in San Francisco, New York and Newark.
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Techstars
Techstars is a startup accelerator and investor founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown and Jared Polis. Its mentorship-driven programs run for about three months and give founders seed capital and access to a worldwide network of mentors and investors.
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Plug and Play
Plug and Play is an innovation platform and venture investor headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2006 by Saeed Amidi. It runs industry-specific accelerator programs in dozens of locations worldwide and connects early-stage startups with large corporate partners.
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EQT Ventures
EQT Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Swedish investment group EQT. It backs early-stage technology startups in Europe and North America, typically with investments of 2 to 50 million euros, and its third fund, closed in 2022, raised 1.1 billion euros in total commitments.
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Balderton Capital
Balderton Capital is a London-based multistage venture firm founded in 2000 that backs European founders from seed to IPO. It has raised $1.3 billion across an Early Stage Fund IX of $615 million and a Growth Fund II of $685 million, and has invested in more than 275 companies.
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Atomico
Atomico is a London-based venture firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, to back European technology companies that can scale globally. In 2024 it raised $1.24 billion across a Series A-focused venture fund and a growth fund, and it publishes the annual State of European Tech report.
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Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in Geneva in 1996 and headquartered in London, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Geneva and Jersey. It invests from seed to growth stage in areas such as enterprise software, infrastructure, fintech, consumer applications, security and healthcare.
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Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek, who were early PayPal colleagues. It invests at all stages across aerospace, AI, advanced computing, energy, health and consumer internet, and was the first institutional investor in SpaceX and Palantir.
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Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an investor-led fund announced in 2016 by Bill Gates and a group of about twenty investors, with a commitment of more than $1 billion and a 20-year horizon. It backs companies from seed through commercialization in electricity, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing and buildings, linking government-funded research to patient, risk-tolerant capital.
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DCVC
DCVC, short for Data Collective Venture Capital, is a deep technology venture firm led by founders and managing partners Matt Ocko and Zachary Bogue and has raised 13 funds to date. In 2018 it set up DCVC Bio for computational biology and life sciences, and it describes one of the longest records of climate technology investing of any VC firm.
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Lux Capital
Lux Capital is a venture firm founded in 2000 by Peter Hebert, Robert Paull and Josh Wolfe, with hubs in New York and Silicon Valley. It backs science and deep technology companies, often led by scientists and engineers, and in January 2026 it raised its ninth fund of $1.5 billion, its largest to date, with a focus that includes breakthrough science and national security.
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Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a venture firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. It invests in breakthrough technologies across AI, health, food and agriculture, sustainable energy, semiconductors, robotics, fintech and enterprise software.
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Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in Silicon Valley. It invests from seed to growth stage across AI, bio and healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, infrastructure and American dynamism.
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Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Don Valentine in Menlo Park, California. Since the 2024 split it focuses on the United States and Europe, while its former India and Southeast Asia and China arms operate separately as Peak XV Partners and HongShan.
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a US startup accelerator, founded in 2005, that runs four batches a year. Each company receives seed funding of $500,000 and works intensively with founders for three months, and YC has funded more than 5,000 companies across software, biotech, hardware and climate technology.
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