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The Madrid VC That Learned to Get Out of Founders' Way
JME Ventures writes early checks for Spanish tech founders, then practices a rare kind of investor discipline: knowing when to help, when to wait and when to leave the keyboard alone.
Mark Kornblau Has Spent a Career Making Big Institutions Legible
From campaign planes to the United Nations, JPMorgan and NBC News, Mark Kornblau learned that the hardest communications job is not producing more messages. It is finding the one story an institution can keep proving.
Spark Capital Bet on Products Before They Became Markets
The venture firm behind Twitter, Tumblr, Oculus and Anthropic built its reputation by treating taste as diligence and patience as a product. Twenty-one years in, its dog logo still says more about the strategy than a spreadsheet does.
Battery Ventures Plays Every Stage of the Technology Stack
The 43-year-old investor combines venture capital, growth equity and buyouts under one technology thesis. Its newest $3.25 billion fund is a test of whether stage flexibility matters more than category fashion.
The Firm That Turned One Man's Duty-Free Fortune Into a $118 Billion Growth Machine
It began as one billionaire's quiet family office. Today General Atlantic writes some of the biggest checks in private markets - and it still calls itself a partner, not a boss.
Sound Ventures Put Hollywood's Playbook Into Venture Capital - Then Made a Concentrated Bet on AI
The Beverly Hills firm built its edge around product instinct, pop-culture reach and hands-on founder access. Its next chapter is narrower: Guy Oseary and Effie Epstein are doubling down on commercial scale, brand-building and a concentrated AI portfolio.
The Hedge Fund That Built a Telescope for Tech
Coatue spent 25 years turning a stock picker’s obsession into a lifecycle investment platform. Its wager is that the same research engine can spot a startup early, help it grow and keep judging it after the IPO bell rings.
Fuel Venture Capital Built a Miami Bridge to the Private Tech Economy
Fuel Venture Capital planted its flag in Miami before the city became a startup slogan. Now the firm is pairing Wall Street risk discipline with a global search for technology companies - and opening that search to private-wealth investors.
The Firm That Buys Companies Nobody Wants - and a Football Club Everybody Watches
Clearlake turned a distressed-debt strategy into a $90 billion machine by fixing unglamorous companies - then bought a Premier League club to prove the point.
The Firm That Bets on Companies That Already Work
For 40 years, Summit Partners has looked for founders who already found something that works - then handed them capital and a playbook to make it bigger. The results include Uber, McAfee, Klaviyo, and $9.5 billion of fresh dry powder.
Black Dragon Capital Wants to Be the Operator in the Deal Room
The Boca Raton private equity firm buys technology businesses where software is rewriting an old industry - then sends operators, not just spreadsheets, into the work of rebuilding them.
IVP Waits for the Rocket to Clear the Tower - Then Adds Fuel
Most venture firms sell access to the future. IVP sells help with the messier moment after a product works, when a breakout company must turn momentum into an institution.
Inside Accel-KKR’s 500-Deal Machine for the Software Nobody Can Switch Off
The Menlo Park investor has spent 25 years turning specialized software into a repeatable private-equity system - one that can buy, lend, consolidate, and still let founders steer.
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz did not become a $100 billion venture firm by treating a check as the finished product. Its real wager is that founders will choose the investor with the strongest machine behind the money.
SoftBank Group Corp.
SoftBank began as a software wholesaler and became a telecom operator, a startup financier and now an aspiring owner of the AI stack. Its latest wager ties models, chips, data centers and robots into one capital-intensive system.
Forest Baskett
Forest Baskett is a Special Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in Menlo Park, California, where he has been investing in technology companies since 1999. A systems-level computer scientist by training, he co-designed the original Sun workstation with Andy Bechtolsheim, designed the operating system for the Cray-1 supercomputer, founded DEC's Western Research Laboratory, and served as CTO of Silicon Graphics during the formative years of 3D graphics. He earned a BA in Mathematics from Rice University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, later becoming a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994. At NEA, he has guided dozens of technology investments to successful IPOs and acquisitions, backing companies across semiconductors, storage, cloud security, robotics, and AI.
Yatin Mundkur
Yatin Mundkur is a General Partner at Artiman Ventures, a Palo Alto-based early-stage venture fund with over $1 billion under management. With 25+ years spanning semiconductor design, founding a company, and two decades of VC investing, he holds 14 patents and has backed companies through 14 IPOs and 38 acquisitions. He also serves as CEO of Cellworks Group, applying his engineering roots to precision medicine.
Cole Pergament
Cole Pergament is a Partner on Sequoia Capital's growth team, one of the most storied venture platforms in Silicon Valley. A Wharton summa cum laude graduate who founded his university's undergraduate fintech group, Cole cut his teeth at Morgan Stanley's Global Technology Group before spending four years at BOND Capital, where he backed companies that became household names in AI and enterprise software - including OpenAI, Decagon, AlphaSense, Weights & Biases, and Wiz. He joined Sequoia in July 2025, bringing a reputation for seeking founders who embrace discomfort, question convention, and are fully committed to their vision.
Chris Lyons
Chris Lyons is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he spent over a decade reshaping how culture and capital intersect. Starting as Chief of Staff to co-founder Ben Horowitz in 2013, he rose to General Partner by 2021 and founded the Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) in 2018 - Silicon Valley's first VC fund composed entirely of Black Limited Partners, uniting athletes, musicians, and entertainers as investors in frontier technology. A former sound engineer trained under Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri, Lyons brings a rare cross-industry fluency to tech investing, bridging entertainment, sports, Web3, and enterprise software. As of early 2026, he announced his departure from a16z to launch his own fund, citing the AI revolution as the defining moment to build independently.
Giovanni Ahern
Giovanni Ahern is an Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms, where he focuses on growth-stage investments. A dual-degree MIT graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science with Economics, Ahern built his investment acumen through roles at Blackstone, Houlihan Lokey, and three years as a Private Equity Associate at Bain Capital specializing in healthcare and technology. Joining a16z in September 2025, he brings a quantitative rigor and cross-sector perspective to backing the next generation of market-defining technology companies.
Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley is one of Silicon Valley's most consequential venture capitalists - a 6'9" Texan who played college basketball, led the analyst team on Amazon's IPO, and then bet Benchmark's money on a then-tiny black-car startup called Uber. As a General Partner at Benchmark from 1999, he built a track record that includes Uber, GrubHub, OpenTable, Zillow, Stitch Fix, and Nextdoor. He writes the 'Above the Crowd' blog, has appeared consistently on the Forbes Midas List, and in 2026 published 'Runnin' Down a Dream,' a career guide ten years in the making. After stepping back from active investing, he relocated to Austin, Texas - where his wife Amy always wanted to end up.