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Below is a list of notable venture capital firms: Assets under management. Shown below are the largest venture capital firms ranked by Assets Under Management. [1]
Benchmark is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. [54] The "maverick" firm [55] differs from most VC firms, which are named for their founders and are structured hierarchically; Benchmark was described by Fortune as "a lean operation in which its six full-time partners share profits equally."
The public successes of the venture capital industry in the 1970s and early 1980s (e.g., DEC, Apple, Genentech) gave rise to a major proliferation of venture capital investment firms. From just a few dozen firms at the start of the decade, there were over 650 firms by the end of the 1980s, each searching for the next major "home run".
In 1972, the firm now known as Kleiner Perkins was the first venture capital firm to open an office on Sand Hill Road. The stellar performance of Kleiner Perkins's first $8 million fund quickly attracted other similar firms to the Menlo Park area, resulting in "the most important cluster of venture capital firms in the world", an author later ...
Slow Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York, Boston, and San Francisco, is raising two new funds, including a $165 million fund VI and a $110 million opportunity fund ...
Sequoia was the first venture capital firm to offer a scout program, and the model has since been emulated by others in the industry. [106] [107] In December 2020, Sequoia expanded the scout program to Europe. [109] In 2021, Sequoia partnered on the BLCK VC Scout Network to provide training and education to current and aspiring Black scouts. [108]
Outside the United States, it has offices in India, Israel, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. In 2022, Venture Capital Journal ranked the firm as the 8th largest venture capital firm based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period. [5]
He founded what’s now a $5.3 billion venture firm, Thrive Capital, and has invested in top-performing startups including Instagram, Slack, Stripe, Spotify, and OpenAI. I met Kushner in 2009 ...