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California Venture Capital Firms
Funding a California small business startup isn't getting any easier. Give your new business an edge with our list of the top venture capital firms in California.
VC investors are great but where can one find California venture capital firms? We've created a list of venture capital firms in California.
- 5AM Ventures - Focus is on life science companies. They invest in seed and early stage companies. Their offices are in San Francisco (Menlo Park) and Boston (Waltham).
- Aberdare Ventures
- ABS Capital Partners
- Acacia Venture Partners
- Accel Partners
- Adams Capital Management, Inc.
- Advanced Technology Ventures
- Advent International Corporation
- Agilent Ventures
- Alloy Ventures
- Alta Partners
- Altos Ventures
- AltoTech Ventures
- American River Ventures
- Ampersand Ventures
- Apax Partners, Inc.
- Applied Materials Ventures
- Asset Management Company
- August Capital
- Battery Ventures
- Bay Partners
- BCM Technologies, Inc.
- Benchmark Capital
- Blue Run Ventures
- Bessemer Venture Partners
- Blue Chip Venture Company
- Burrill & Company
- CampVentures
- Canaan Partners
- Cardinal Partners
- Cardinal Venture Capital
- Cargill Ventures
- Catamount Ventures
- CB Health Ventures, L.L.C.
- Charles River Ventures
- Clearstone Venture Partners
- CMEA Ventures
- Compass Venture Partners L.P.
- Crescendo Ventures
- Crosslink Capital
- CTTV Investments LLC
- Cutlass Capital
- De Novo Ventures
- Delphi Ventures
- Doll Capital Management
- Domain Associates, L.L.C.
- Draper Richards, L.P.
- Earlybird
- East Gate Capital Management, LLC
- El Dorado Ventures
- Entrepia Ventures, Inc.
- Flagship Ventures
- Flynn Ventures L.L.C.
- Flywheel Ventures
- Focus Ventures
- Forward Ventures
- Foundation Capital
- FTVENTURES
- Fuse Capital
- Gabriel Venture Partners
- Garage Technology Ventures
- Globespan Capital Partners
- Granite Ventures, L.L.C.
- Greenspring Associates
- Greylock
- The Grosvenor Funds
- GRP Partners
- Guidant Corporation
- Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc
- Housatonic Partners
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
- IDG Ventures
- IGNITE Group
- Intel Capital
- InterWest Partners
- Institutional Venture Partners
- JAFCO Ventures
- Kaiser Permanente
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Kline Hawkes & Co.
- Latterell Venture Partners
- Legacy Venture
- Levensohn Venture Partners
- Lighthouse Capital Partners
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Matrix Partners
- Mayfield
- Menlo Ventures
- Microsoft Corporation
- Mission Ventures
- Mobius Venture Capital
- Mohr, Davidow Ventures
- Montreux Equity Partners
- Morgenthaler
- MPM Capital
- Needham Capital Partners
- New Enterprise Associates
- Newton Technology Partners
- NGEN Partners L.L.C
- NIF Ventures USA, Inc.
- Norwest Venture Partners
- Noventi Ventures
- Nth Power
- Oak Investment Partners
- Odyssey Venture Partners
- Omron Advanced Systems, Inc.
- ONSET Ventures
- Opportunity Capital Partners
- Oxford Bioscience Partners
- Peninsula Equity Partners
- Pitango Venture Capital
- POSCO BioVentures
- Prospect Venture Partners
- Ridgewood Capital
- Rustic Canyon Ventures
- Saints Ventures
- Sanderling Ventures
- Scale Venture Partners
- Selby Venture Partners
- Sevin Rosen Funds
- Shepherd Ventures
- Sierra Ventures
- Sigma Partners
- Sofinnova Ventures, Inc.
- Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund
- Split Rock Partners
- Sprout Group
- Steamboat Ventures, L.L.C.
- Storm Ventures
- Summit Partners
- Sutter Hill Ventures
- TA Associates, Inc.
- Techfarm Ventures
- Technology Crossover Ventures
- Technology Partners
- Telos Venture Partners
- Texas Instruments
- The Angels' Forum
- Thoma Cressey Equity Partners
- Thomas, McNerney & Partners L.L.C.
- TL Ventures
- Trident Capital
- Trinity Ventures
- U.S. Venture Partners
- Unilever Technology Ventures
- UV Partners
- Vanguard Ventures
- VantagePoint Venture Partners
- Vector Capital
- Venrock Associates
- Versant Ventures
- Vision Capital
- Walden International
- WaldenVC
- Warburg Pincus
- WestBridge Capital Partners
- WestBridge Ventures L.L.C.
- Western Technology Investment
- Weston Presidio
- Zone Ventures
We are constantly updating our list of California venture capital firms. If we are missing a local venture capital firm, please let us know.
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