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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Cloud Computing startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Salesforce Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Ignition Partners | Early Stage Venture | Los Altos, California, United States, North America | ||
Benhamou Global Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
SVG Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Los Gatos, California, United States, North America | ||
Aurelia Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Cloud Computing Early Stage Venture investors in California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Cloud Computing Investors & Funds (California)
Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Since 2009, we’ve invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world’s most tenacious enterprise software companies from seed to IPO, including Airtable, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures leverages our decades of expertise in the cloud and our long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give our portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Ignition Partners
Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in enterprise software. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition’s partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world’s most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks. Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Los Altos, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, IT Infrastructure, Software
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Benhamou Global Ventures
Benhamou Global Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. The firm works with passion and commitment to building valuable companies. It places particular emphasis on cloud technologies; virtual and software-defined networking; productivity-based applications; cybersecurity, mobility, and the Internet of Things. In 2004, Eric Benhamou founded the firm in Palo Alto, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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SVG Ventures
SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and advisory firm that partners with public and private organizations on strategy, innovation and global expansion. Formed in 2010 and based in Silicon Valley, SVG Ventures|THRIVE invests in early stage technology companies. The SVG Ventures|THRIVE team consists of accomplished technology leaders from all over the globe. With its vast network, SVG gets deeply involved with portfolio companies to support their success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Cloud Computing, Food and Beverage, Internet, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Aurelia Ventures
B2B Accelerator & VC. We supercharge B2B software founders. Our goal is to increase your sales, hire the right people, get investors for your follow-on rounds and extend your runway with $1.25M+ in perks & benefits.
Stages: Angel to Series A
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AI/ML, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Big Data
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Spider Capital
Spider Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investments. The firm targets investments in technology-driven enterprise cloud software companies. The firm focuses on investments in United States, Canada, and Israel. The firm seeks to lead or co-lead seed round investments. The firm also provides follow-on funding by co-investing with other funds. The company was founded by Michael Neril in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Venture Capital
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GSD Venture Studios
For too long self-motivated entrepreneurs have navigated the minefield of challenges to launching a global company with very little support. The last thing you should bet on in this situation is an unproven team that you don’t trust. GSD Venture Studios travels the world inviting resilient teams to establish partnerships that ensure organizations grow the right way, without games or gimmicks. Unlike traditional investors, we take senior operational (often co-founder) roles in these companies, capitalizing on our trusted reputation, experiences and network to drive explosive growth. We Travel The World Investing In Resilient Teams Bold Enough To #GoGlobal For companies to leave a lasting impact they must grow quickly, be bold and go global. In order to do so, companies must engineer five things simultaneously: Product, Investment, Influence, Sales/Marketing, and Systems. Benchmarks for future funding rounds must be developed through all five lines of effort. We rarely find companies that are effective at all five, mainly because each line requires a tremendous amount of back office expertise and support. This is why we have partnered with top law firms, banks, coworking spaces, HR professionals and strategists to ensure your success. How We Get Shit Done For organizations seeking digital transformation or looking to increase their startup engagement, GSD Venture Studios is developing a collision point with key organizations and officials across the world. We invite corporate partners, accelerators and other experts for idea collaboration, building relationships with our portfolio and helping launch new companies. You Have an Idea, We Make It Global
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, EdTech, FinTech, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital
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Illuminate Ventures
Illuminate’s focus is on finding, funding and accelerating great founders in the B2B/Enterprise cloud and mobile computing space. They focus on companies building SaaS applications as well as solutions that leverage data and mobility to improve business results. They seek innovative ideas led by talented teams – frequently bringing together diverse perspectives that marry “creative destruction” with new technologies to solve old problems in new ways. Illuminate is typically a startup’s first institutional investor, but can also be a fit for an established company seeking its first equity financing. Their sweet spot is Series Seed rounds – filling the gap between angel capital and larger funding rounds of traditional VCs. When the timing is right, they collaborate with the best large-scale firms for the next round of financing, but they love lean start-ups that preserve flexibility in their early years. With three funds under management, Illuminate has been an early investor and board member in deep technology platforms like BrightEdge Technologies (SEO market leader), SaaS applications like Xactly Corporation (NYSE: XTLY) and early market innovators like Influitive (customer advocacy).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Mobile, SaaS
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Primer Sazze Partners
VC Firm focused on lasting partnerships with entrepreneurs Sazze is a word that describes the student and teacher relationship. We believe that true partnerships are built on this relationship and that we are all students and teachers in different contexts. At Sazze Partners we aren’t investors, we are entrepreneurs. Our core competencies aren’t leading board meetings and hosting networking events, though we like to think we do these things just fine, rather we are experts at the mundane tactical skills that propel businesses to success. These skills include things like SEO, product development, and content strategy. In short we are experts at the day to day things that turn good ideas into great businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Content, EdTech, Social, Travel
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SierraMaya360
SierraMaya360 is a full-service early stage venture capital firm. Our team is comprised of industry veterans with an extensive network of contacts in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Silicon Beach. Our experience, network and expertise gives us a critical advantage to identify innovative opportunities long before they bubble up as global trends. Our firm was founded to leverage the success of angel fund Sierra Maya Ventures, which won Top Newcomer to Venture Capital 2014- North America by Wealth and Finance International Magazine and has been consistently ranked as a top-tier Angel/Seed fund.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Digital Media, Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Mobile, Venture Capital
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The Fabric
The Fabric is a startup co-creation foundry with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space. The Fabric has a team of proven company creators who under one roof deeply collaborate with founders to help them grow from concept to company in the cloud and infrastructure space. The Fabric co-creates, funds, and launches companies in the cloud/IoT infrastructure space.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Mountain View, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Venture Capital, Web Hosting
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YBR Capital
VC firm created by JP Morgan and TPG capital alums bringing experience and sophistication of private equity investing into venture capital to find and nurture the next generation of innovators.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: CleanTech, Cloud Computing, FinTech, Machine Learning, Marketing Automation, Mobile
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