Alloy Ventures traces its roots back to 1977. Its rich history of early-stage venture investing over several economic cycles has produced industry-leading companies such as Amgen, AMCC, Applied Biosystems, Aspect Communications, CV Therapeutics, Favrille, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Nuance, Octel, PMC-Sierra, Red Brick Systems, Remedy and Verity to name a few. The partners of Alloy Ventures have helped start and cultivate more than 200 successful companies in the fields of information technology and life sciences. Alloy Ventures has over $1 billion under management.

Angelsoft was founded in 2004 with a simple idea: to bring the power of collaboration technologies to the early-stage investment industry. Today, with 445 angel groups and VCs, 16,367 investors, and 3,000 new company applications a month, Angelsoft has become a vital ecosystem where real entrepreneurs and real investors meet and collaborate in the effort to build the best new companies of the 21st Century.

Apex Venture Partners, established in 1987, has six funds and more than $600 million under management. The firm has invested in over 130 technology companies.  Apex focuses on early stage investments in software applications, technology-enabled services, IT infrastructure, and telecommunications.

For over 45 years, the goal of Asset Management Company has been to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and help create valuable new companies and important new industries by investing capital in exciting, new, technology-based opportunities.

At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success.

Cooley Godward Kronish is a national law firm for the converging worlds of high technology, high finance and high-stakes litigation. We are counselors, strategists and advocates for the foremost private and public companies across a wide variety of industries and in all major technology fields. Our clients include business organizations, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, financial institutions, private equity firms, professional services firms and real estate owners and developers. Cooley has approximately 650 attorneys and represents clients in more than 20 industries

Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to high technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. We have over 250 attorneys and offices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California.

Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services that focus on global high technology industries and issues. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients' technologies, industry environments and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers.

Garage Technology Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. We’re looking to invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs who have the ability to build great teams and great companies.

Hamilton Lane is an independent financial institution that provides discretionary and non-discretionary private equity asset management services to sophisticated investors worldwide. From offices in the U.S., London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Singapore, Hamilton Lane offers a full range of investment products and services that enable clients to participate in the private equity asset class on a global and customized basis.

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. 

Illuminate Ventures is different – we don’t rely on “pattern recognition” or following the herd.  We seek new and innovative business ideas led by committed, talented and diverse teams, particularly those that are inclusive of women entrepreneurs.  We recognize that great investment opportunities come in a variety of packages - sometimes looking a bit different from the norm.

Our team is made up of experienced investors with significant operating and investment track records, complemented by an amazingly talented Advisory Council.  We invest in US-based high growth, capital efficient companies in selected sectors within the high-tech landscape, typically as the first institutional investor at early stages, but also at a point where an established bootstrapped or debt financed company may be seeking its first equity financing.  We work closely with founders to support them in building truly great companies and teams. We’ve been there ourselves and know that teams made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills deliver innovative thinking with outstanding results.

At Iron, we create marketing messages that get to the point: simply, quickly, effectively. Then we package those messages in a way that builds a personal, emotional connection, that cannot be ignored or forgotten.

Today's venture capital environment demands experienced, thoughtful and insightful venture investors who continuously offer their portfolio companies the crucial guidance needed to achieve success. At Levensohn Venture Partners, we are committed to investing both time and money in developing companies.

At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.

Milk Street Ventures buys existing venture capital and private equity portfolios. As a secondary direct investor, we provide alternative liquidity solutions to independent funds and in-house investment programs.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo is a versatile law firm of more than 450 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing diverse international clients in many industries, who turn to us for a wide range of legal services and resources. Our clients include major public corporations, privately held and family businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups and emerging growth companies, investors, underwriters, directors and officers, research scientists, medical and academic institutions, public agencies and industry associations.

Morrison & Foerster’s Emerging Company and Venture Capital group helps emerging companies succeed at every stage of their development. We advise companies from their initial business formation to raising venture capital financing and achieving a successful exit through a sale or public offering.

Moss Adams LLP is the 12th largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States, and the largest headquartered in the West. Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Moss Adams has 19 offices in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Moss Adams provides accounting, tax, and consulting services to public, private, and nonprofit enterprises in many different industries.

PayCycle, America’s #1 Online Payroll Service, makes managing your payroll easy. This convenient and affordable service handles all your payroll needs: paycheck calculations, instant checks, direct deposit, W-2s, electronic tax payments, electronic tax filings & more.

We're a venture capital firm specializing in life sciences. Since our launch in 2001, we’ve supported more than 25 young companies. We invest in traditional healthcare opportunities as well as emerging areas — such as nutrition, wellness, and green technology — in which we’ve built one of the largest portfolios in the country.

Reed Smith represents many of the world’s leading companies in complex litigation and other high-stakes disputes, cross-border and other strategic transactions, and crucial regulatory matters.With lawyers from coast-to-coast in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Asia and the Middle East, our firm is known for its experience across a broad array of industry sectors.

With 800 lawyers and other professionals in 13 offices in the U.S. and Europe, and a global reach throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Sonnenschein serves the legal and public interest needs of many of the world's best-known and most admired businesses, nonprofits and individuals.

 

SVB Financial Group provides diversified financial services to emerging, growth and established technology companies and the life science, private equity and premium wine markets. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, SVB Financial Group provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its clients' success.

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) can help you rise to the exciting opportunities and challenges that globalisation offers. We work with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets. We also encourage the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance for more than 23 million customers through 6,100 stores, the internet and other distribution channels across North America and elsewhere internationally.