Seed investors
988 of 1475 seed firms that report a preference say they can lead. 149 active since September.
Can leadMostly followsNot reportedRecently active
Bessemer Venture PartnersActive Oct 2
Yael Schiff, Adam Fisher+23 on the team
Andreessen HorowitzActive Oct 12
Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen
Bain Capital VenturesActive Sep 28
Aaref Hilaly, Ajay Agarwal+7 on the team
Lightspeed Venture PartnersActive Oct 14
Barry Eggers, Peter Nieh+8 on the team
Founders FundActive Oct 9
Amin Mirzadegan, Delian Asparouhov+11 on the team
Founder CollectiveActive Sep 29
Amanda Herson, David Frankel+2 on the team
Index VenturesActive Oct 6
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas, Danny Rimer+6 on the team
Menlo VenturesActive Oct 9
Amy Wu Martin, Croom Beatty+18 on the team
LAUNCHActive Sep 23
Jason Calacanis
AccelActive Oct 7
Anand Daniel, Philippe Botteri+12 on the team
AdditionActive Sep 27
Lee Fixel, Todd Arfman
BenchmarkActive Oct 10
Chetan Puttagunta, Eric Vishria+3 on the team
Khosla VenturesActive Oct 8
David Weiden, Keith Rabois+16 on the team
Salesforce VenturesActive Oct 9
Emily Zhao, John Somorjai+18 on the team
Sequoia CapitalActive Oct 13
Doug Leone, Alfred Lin+12 on the team
Tribe CapitalActive Oct 13
Arjun Sethi, Boris Revsin+8 on the team
Emergence CapitalActive Sep 24
Gordon Ritter, Jake Saper+10 on the team
Framework VenturesActive Oct 9
Rajiv Patel-O'Connor, Michael Anderson+5 on the team
Kleiner PerkinsActive Oct 14
Aatish Nayak, Aditya Naganath+8 on the team
Panache VenturesActive Oct 1
Patrick Lor, Genevieve Tanguay+6 on the team
Company VenturesActive Oct 5
Hunter Hillenmeyer, Matt Harrigan+6 on the team
ContraryActive Sep 27
Eric Tarczynski, Kyle Harrison+1 on the team
Cowboy VenturesActive Oct 13
Aileen Lee, Ted Wang+2 on the team
DCVCActive Oct 8
Ali Tamaseb, James Hardiman+15 on the team
General CatalystActive Oct 10
Alex Tran, David Fialkow+21 on the team
Innovation EndeavorsActive Sep 28
Davis Treybig, Dror Berman+11 on the team
Ribbit CapitalActive Sep 30
Nick Shalek, Cindy Mcadam+5 on the team
Caffeinated CapitalActive Oct 8
Matthew Volosin, Raymond Tonsing+1 on the team
Diagram VenturesActive Sep 27
Charles Poire, Emily Haniotis+2 on the team
Drive CapitalActive Oct 14
Adam Pollack, Cameron Clarke+12 on the team
Eclipse VenturesActive Oct 7
Lior Susan, Aidan Madigan-Curtis+6 on the team
FirstMarkActive Sep 29
Amish Jani, Rick Heitzmann+10 on the team
Foundation CapitalActive Sep 25
Charles Moldow, Rodolfo Gonzalez+10 on the team
HeadlineActive Sep 22
Anna Vershebeniuk, Brian Yen+8 on the team
Javelin Venture PartnersActive Sep 23
Alex Gurevich, Jed Katz+2 on the team
Julian CapitalActive Oct 14
Julian Shapiro, Jacob Jackson+1 on the team
ParadigmActive Oct 7
Alana Palmedo, Dan Robinson+7 on the team
Radical VenturesActive Sep 30
Jordan Jacobs, Paige Dickie+20 on the team
Real VenturesActive Sep 24
John Stokes, Katy Yam+5 on the team
The EngineActive Sep 22
Ann DeWitt, Israel Ruiz+9 on the team
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