The most active IT startup investors
384 investors hold three or more IT startups each, 1,564 portfolio startups in all. The most active here are Y Combinator (153), Insight Partners (71) and Techstars (56). 46 of them are accelerators.
Investors by their portfolio companiesRebuilt 7 Nov 2026
investors
384
portfolio startups
1,564
of them raised in 12 months
13
accelerators
46
Investors backing startups worldwide
| Investor | Startups here | Portfolio rounds, 12 mo | Latest activity |
|---|---|---|---|
 Y CombinatorAccelerator · United States · Orgo, chkit Docs, Spine | 153 | 254 | Oct 2026 |
 Insight PartnersVenture capital · United States · Kyndryl, Alibaba Group, SmartBear | 71 | 81 | Oct 2026 |
 TechstarsAccelerator · United States · Testlio, Educative, Stackery | 56 | 97 | Oct 2026 |
 AccelVenture capital · United States · Microsoft, Freshworks, New Relic | 42 | 83 | Oct 2026 |
 Bessemer Venture PartnersVenture capital · United States · Oracle, IBM, Cisco Systems | 38 | 70 | Oct 2026 |
 Andreessen HorowitzVenture capital · United States · Netlify, DigitalOcean, Samsara | 37 | 102 | Nov 2026 |
 Plug and PlayAccelerator · United States · Amazon, Google, Moveworks | 36 | 155 | Nov 2026 |
 Sequoia CapitalVenture capital · United States · Blacksmith, Microsoft, Oracle | 36 | 90 | Nov 2026 |
 NEAVenture capital · United States · Oracle, Cisco Systems, Pulumi | 36 | 38 | Oct 2026 |
 Lightspeed Venture PartnersVenture capital · United States · Moveworks, Grafana Labs, Rubrik | 35 | 85 | Nov 2026 |
 EndeavorAccelerator · United States · Rikkeisoft, BasharSoft, Spacelift | 33 | 55 | Oct 2026 |
 Redpoint VenturesVenture capital · United States · Microsoft, Snowflake, Cribl | 30 | 40 | Oct 2026 |
 500 GlobalAccelerator · United States · Embedded LLM, Datakrew, LaunchDarkly | 30 | 35 | Oct 2026 |
 Irregular ExpressionsVenture capital · Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Harness, Insforge | 28 | 4 | Oct 2026 |
 General CatalystVenture capital · United States · Microsoft, Amazon, Vercel | 25 | 122 | Nov 2026 |
 GVVenture capital · United States · Google, IBM, Cribl | 25 | 57 | Oct 2026 |
 Kleiner PerkinsVenture capital · United States · Traversal, Modal, Microsoft | 24 | 49 | Nov 2026 |
 CoatueVenture capital · United States · Snowflake, Docker, NinjaOne | 24 | 34 | Oct 2026 |
 Cisco InvestmentsVenture capital · United States · SpecterOps, Tricentis, Actility | 24 | 18 | Sep 2026 |
 Menlo VenturesVenture capital · United States · Oracle, IBM, VMware | 23 | 46 | Oct 2026 |
 Soma CapitalVenture capital · United States · Beam, Lancedb, Hubble Network | 22 | 60 | Oct 2026 |
 Battery VenturesVenture capital · United States · BigPanda, Catchpoint, AppDynamics joins the Splunk Observability portfolio | 22 | 35 | Sep 2026 |
 AntlerAccelerator · Singapore · Super IT, Genie Framework, Codedamn | 21 | 53 | Nov 2026 |
 Sapphire VenturesVenture capital · Google, Moveworks, Grafana Labs | 20 | 27 | Oct 2026 |
 DCVCVenture capital · United States · VMware, Rescale, Elastic | 17 | 27 | Nov 2026 |
 Amplify PartnersVenture capital · Elastic, Datadog, Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 17 | 23 | Oct 2026 |
 Peak XV PartnersVenture capital · India · Cognizant, Freshworks, Theta | 16 | 30 | Oct 2026 |
 CRVVenture capital · United States · IBM, Cribl, Vercel | 16 | 26 | Oct 2026 |
 BGFVenture capital · United Kingdom · Microsoft, AND Digital, Kocho | 15 | 52 | Nov 2026 |
| VValueAdd VCVenture capital · Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle | 15 | 29 | Oct 2026 |
 Madrona Venture GroupVenture capital · United States · Amazon, Kyndryl, Snowflake | 15 | 26 | Nov 2026 |
 Index VenturesVenture capital · United Kingdom · Starburst, Nexthink, incident.io | 14 | 69 | Oct 2026 |
 Global BrainVenture capital · Japan · Cornelis Networks, Idein, Raksul | 14 | 30 | Oct 2026 |
 Salesforce VenturesVenture capital · United States · Docker, CTO.ai, Electric | 14 | 22 | Sep 2026 |
 IVPVenture capital · United States · Oracle, AppDynamics joins the Splunk Observability portfolio, Cribl | 14 | 15 | Oct 2026 |
 Francisco PartnersPrivate equity · United States · Oracle, Blackline Safety, New Relic | 14 | 3 | Aug 2026 |
 Abry PartnersPrivate equity · United States · European Dynamics, CyrusOne, Options Technology | 14 | 1 | Aug 2026 |
 One Equity PartnersPrivate equity · Myriad360, ventanaresearch, Netaş | 14 | 1 | Dec 2025 |
 High-Tech GründerfondsAccelerator · Germany · SereneDB, Hornetsecurity, gridscale | 13 | 47 | Nov 2026 |
 Silicon Valley InvestclubAccelerator · Grafana Labs, Vercel, Tanium | 13 | 46 | Oct 2026 |
The most backed startups worldwide
| Startup | Investors in this list |
|---|---|
 Microsoft | 26 |
 Cisco Systems | 21 |
 IBM | 20 |
 Oracle | 19 |
 Google | 16 |
 Cohesity | 16 |
 Harness | 16 |
 Rippling | 15 |
 Vercel | 15 |
 Together AI | 14 |
 Crusoe | 14 |
 ClickHouse | 13 |
 Supabase | 13 |
 Datadog | 12 |
 Amazon | 12 |
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Who invests in IT startups?
384 investors hold three or more IT startups each, 1,564 portfolio startups in all. The most active here are Y Combinator (153), Insight Partners (71) and Techstars (56). 46 of them are accelerators.
How is this list built?
From what each investor holds: the portfolio page it publishes, the Y Combinator directory and the announced rounds that name it. An investor counts for a sector when at least three of its portfolio companies are based there; the list is rebuilt every night from 2,414 portfolios.
Source: investors' portfolio pages and announced rounds, 2,414 portfoliosUpdated 7 Nov 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0