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Securing growth-stage funding is a major milestone for any startup founder. The right firm offers not just money, but the guidance and connections to help your company thrive.
Long-standing firms like Sequoia Capital have backed over 2,200 companies, while New Enterprise Associates has seen over 600 of its portfolio companies exit. These numbers reflect decades of experience in helping founders succeed.
Below is our list of the best 38 Growth VC firms.
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Buy It For $97 $297 →Sequoia Capital helps daring founders build legendary companies across a wide array of industries, from energy and healthcare to enterprise and crypto. By spurring them to push the boundaries of what’s possible, they have helped build some of the world's most defining technology companies, including Apple, Google, and Nvidia.
Focusing on growth-stage software companies, Insight Partners provides capital and partnership to scale businesses in sectors from Fintech to Healthcare. With a portfolio that includes household names like Twitter, Docusign, and Shopify, they have a long history of helping software companies scale into market leaders.
Norwest operates as a multi-stage venture and growth equity firm, investing in a broad range of companies from consumer and enterprise to healthcare. Drawing on experience from over 600 investments, including Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Grove Collaborative, the firm provides founders with a deep network and operational services to help them scale.
New Enterprise Associates invests in technology and healthcare companies, supporting them from the initial seed round all the way to their public offering. This multi-stage investment strategy has helped build category-defining companies such as Uber and Cloudflare.
Blackbird backs Australasia's most ambitious founders, investing in wild ideas from software to space tech right from the beginning. Their community-driven approach has helped launch generational companies, including the globally recognized design platform Canva.
Forerunner backs founders by focusing on the mindset of the modern consumer, investing in companies poised to meet people where they are going. They provide funding and strategic consumer insight to help build culture-defining brands like Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Hims & Hers.
Correlation Ventures offers entrepreneurs and their lead investors a fast, data-driven way to complete a funding round. Their analytics-powered model delivers co-investment decisions in as little as two weeks and has helped build a portfolio that includes companies like Upstart.
As a dedicated European deep tech venture firm, IQ Capital backs founders who are leveraging scientific breakthroughs to build global companies. They have supported over 100 teams since 2005, investing from seed to Series A in sectors including AI, IoT, and cybersecurity.
Georgian invests in growth-stage software companies, including Shopify, that are harnessing data ethically. They provide a proprietary platform that uses a data-first approach to help CEOs navigate the challenges of scaling their business.
Beringea finds and funds companies in growth industries like media, healthcare, and clean tech, supporting them from the seed stage through to late-stage growth. The firm's international presence in the U.S. and U.K. gives its portfolio companies the resources to develop strategy, solve problems, and build value.
The firms we highlighted are some of our favorites, but the list doesn't stop there. The other investors we've gathered have collectively backed over 6,000 startups and helped more than 600 of them reach an exit. They're also a global group, with funds operating everywhere from the US and Europe to Asia. Here are the other firms helping to build what comes next.
| VC Firm | Country | Year Founded | Nº Investments | Nº Exits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1995 | 2796 | 87 | |
| United States | 2012 | 236 | 40 | |
| France | 2012 | 68 | 15 | |
| Australia | 2014 | 176 | 16 | |
| Belgium | 1993 | 110 | 32 | |
| Germany | 1997 | 116 | 18 | |
| United States | 2008 | 81 | 20 | |
| United States | 2014 | 135 | 17 | |
| South Korea | 1999 | 354 | 46 | |
| 2009 | 678 | 67 | ||
| United States | 2014 | 71 | 6 | |
| United Kingdom | 1996 | 154 | 29 | |
| Israel | 2010 | 108 | 23 | |
| United States | 2011 | 104 | 40 | |
| United States | 2015 | 82 | 15 | |
| United States | 2014 | 46 | 9 | |
| Singapore | 2017 | 144 | 7 | |
| Lithuania | 2011 | 104 | 4 | |
| Canada | 2009 | 79 | 4 | |
| Philippines | 2012 | 6 | 1 | |
| United States | 2000 | 289 | 65 | |
| United States | 2000 | 46 | 11 | |
| United States | 2000 | 57 | 15 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 2018 | 90 | 3 | |
| United States | 2006 | 131 | 40 | |
| Japan | 2015 | 26 | 2 | |
| Serbia | 2015 | 56 | 7 | |
| United States | 2018 | 45 | 3 |
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