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AI² Robotics

AI² Robotics (also written AI2 Robotics; Chinese: 智平方科技, Zhipingfang) is a Chinese robotics company founded in April 2023 and headquartered in Shenzhen's...

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Accel

Accel is an American venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz that has backed more than 800 companies across early, growth, and...

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Altimeter Capital

Altimeter Capital is a technology-focused investment firm, founded in 2008 by Brad Gerstner, that runs both a public-markets hedge fund and a series of private...

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Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz, commonly styled a16z, is an American venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from seed...

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Benchmark (venture capital firm)

Benchmark is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 1995. It is one of Silicon Valley's most influential investors...

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Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is an American venture capital firm and one of the oldest in the United States, tracing its lineage to the family office of...

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Coatue Management

Coatue Management is an American technology-focused investment firm founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont, a former Tiger Management analyst and one of the...

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Conviction

Conviction is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Sarah Guo, a former general partner at Greylock, that invests exclusively in companies...

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Daniel Gross

Daniel Gross (born 1991) is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and venture investor who co-founded the AI laboratory Safe Superintelligence Inc. with Ilya...

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David Sacks

David Oliver Sacks (born 1972) is a South African-born American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who served as the first White House Special Advisor for AI...

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Dragoneer Investment Group

Dragoneer Investment Group is a San Francisco growth-oriented investment firm, founded in 2012 by Marc Stad, that invests in high-growth technology companies...

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Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture capital firm, founded in 2005 by the PayPal alumni Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, that has become one of the...

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GIC

GIC is Singapore's largest sovereign wealth fund, established on 22 May 1981 to manage the country's foreign reserves over a long investment horizon.[9]...

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GV (Google Ventures)

GV (legally Google Ventures) is the venture-capital arm of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, founded in 2009 and led since 2016 by chief executive and...

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General Catalyst

General Catalyst is an American venture capital and investment firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that under chief executive...

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Gradient Ventures

Gradient Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence that was founded by Google in 2017 and operated as the company's...

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Greenoaks Capital

Greenoaks Capital is a San Francisco investment firm founded in 2012 by Neil Mehta and Benny Peretz.[1][2] The firm runs a concentrated, long-horizon,...

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Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the United States, founded in 1965 and now based in Menlo Park, California, where it...

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ICONIQ Capital

ICONIQ Capital is an American investment management firm headquartered in San Francisco that combines a discreet multi-family office for ultra-wealthy...

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Index Ventures

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm founded in 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland, that backs technology startups from seed through late-stage...

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Insight Partners

Insight Partners is a New York based global venture capital and growth equity firm that invests almost exclusively in software, internet, and technology...

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Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee (Chinese: 李開復; born December 3, 1961) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist, venture capitalist, and author who is the founder and CEO of...

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Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a private venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Vinod Khosla founded it in 2004 with Samir Kaul and David Weiden after...

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Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm, founded in 1972 and based on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, that in March 2026 raised $3.5...

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Largest AI Funding Rounds and Valuations

As of July 2026, the largest AI funding round on record is OpenAI's $122 billion raise, which closed in March 2026 at an $852 billion post-money valuation, the...

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, that by the end of 2025 managed more than...

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Lux Capital

Lux Capital is an American venture capital firm, founded in 2000 by Josh Wolfe, Peter Hebert, and Robert Paull, that invests in emerging science and "deep...

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M12 (Microsoft)

M12 is the corporate venture-capital fund of Microsoft, making minority equity investments in early-stage enterprise and business-to-business software...

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MGX

MGX (formally MGX Fund Management Limited) is an Abu Dhabi state-backed technology investment company focused on artificial intelligence and the compute...

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Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son (孫 正義, Son Masayoshi), born August 11, 1957, is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and investor who founded and runs SoftBank Group Corp., the...

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Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures is an American venture capital firm founded in 1976 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an office in San Francisco, making it one...

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Mubadala Investment Company

Mubadala Investment Company is a state-owned strategic investor based in Abu Dhabi and wholly owned by the government of the emirate. As of the end of 2024 it...

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NVentures (Nvidia)

NVentures is the corporate venture-capital arm of Nvidia, the dominant supplier of graphics processors used to train and run artificial-intelligence models....

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Nat Friedman

Nathaniel Dourif "Nat" Friedman (born August 6, 1977) is an American entrepreneur and investor who served as chief executive officer of GitHub from 2018 to...

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New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American venture capital firm and one of the largest in the United States by committed capital. Founded in 1977, NEA...

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Radical Ventures

Radical Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm that invests exclusively in artificial intelligence companies. Founded in 2017 by Jordan Jacobs and...

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Reid Hoffman

Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as a co-founder and former chief executive of...

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Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam Bankman-Fried (born 1992), often called SBF, is an American former cryptocurrency executive who founded the trading firm Alameda Research and the FTX...

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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Don Valentine and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.[1] It is one of the most...

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Sinovation Ventures

Sinovation Ventures is a China-focused venture capital firm founded in 2009 by a team led by Kai-Fu Lee. It began under the English name Innovation Works and...

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SoftBank Group

SoftBank Group Corp. (Japanese: ソフトバンクグループ株式会社) is a Japanese multinational holding conglomerate headquartered at the Tokyo Shiodome City Center in Minato,...

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SoftBank Vision Fund

The SoftBank Vision Fund (SVF) is a series of large technology-focused investment vehicles managed by SB Investment Advisers (UK) Limited, a subsidiary of...

Thrive Capital

Thrive Capital is a New York City venture capital firm founded by Josh Kushner in 2009 (some accounts date the firm to 2010). It is known for a concentrated,...

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Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global Management is an American investment firm headquartered in New York that operates a technology-focused hedge fund alongside one of the world's...

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Unitree Robotics IPO

The Unitree Robotics IPO is the pending initial public offering of Unitree Technology Co., Ltd. (宇树科技股份有限公司), better known as Unitree Robotics, on the Shanghai...

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Venture Capital

Venture capital, commonly abbreviated VC, is a form of private equity financing for young companies whose growth prospects are difficult to evaluate through...

Walden Robotics

Walden Robotics is an American robotics company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that builds wheeled, two-armed general-purpose robots for factories and...

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator (YC) is an American startup accelerator and early-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in March 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica...

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