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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Big Data startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DCVC | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund) | Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
SignalFire | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Amino Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
GSV Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Big Data 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 Big Data Investors & Funds (California)
DCVC
DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less – now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology with unique compute and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
StartX is a 501(c)(3) Stanford-affiliated nonprofit in Silicon Valley that runs one of the world’s top startup accelerator programs. Its mission is to advance the development of the best entrepreneurs through experiential education and peer learning. Since launching in 2010, it has supported more than 450 companies and 1000 entrepreneurs, from early to pre-IPO stage, working across a wide spectrum of industries. StartX and StartX Med, dedicated to medical and biotechnology innovation, provide founders with access to a powerful network of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and industry partners, along with office space and a variety of other resources. Based in Palo Alto, the accelerator also operates StartX-QB3 Labs and the Stanford-StartX Fund. We are funded by Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, Microsoft, Steelcase, Hyundai, Oriza Ventures, Nissan, Panasonic, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Analog Devices, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, and many others. For more information, visit startx.com The company is associated investment vehicle, the Stanford-StartX Fund is a partnership between StartX, Stanford University and Stanford Health Care. It can invest only in StartX companies who raise qualified rounds of venture capital using objective criteria; it is founder opt-in.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Computer Vision, Consumer Software, Education, Enterprise Software, Finance, Hardware, Internet, Internet of Things, Medical Device, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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SignalFire
SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study, development, and iteration on how to best fuel today’s entrepreneur. Their distributed network approach gives access to some of the world’s best entrepreneurs, product, and engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry, provided by a centralized team of world class investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, Bessemer, KPCB, Google, and Yahoo. They have developed a first of its kind centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational and community events. They invest in leaders with an uncommon passion and perspective for leveraging data and technology solutions to upend substantial markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Amino Capital
AMINO Capital is an early stage venture firm based in Palo Alto, focused on investments in big data and data driven technologies. To date, Amino has funded over 200 companies mostly in seed, and Series A, including 22 successful exits, 12 unicorns, including Chime Bank, Webflow, Rippling, Weee, Headspin, Grail (acquired by Illumina), OmiseGo, DFINITY (launched with $45B market cap), Turing and Mobike (acquired by Maituan), and industry leading fast growing startups, such as Wyze, Avail MedSystems, Instawork, Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), GrokStyle(acquired by Facebook), Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou), Dataform (acquired by Google), Voyage (acquired by Cruise) and et al. We are also early backers of next generation blockchain protocol since 2014, and led the seed and A round of String Labs, which incubated one the most anticipated public chain, DFINITY (aka ICP). We participated in investment of OASIS, 0x, OmiseGo, which later became known as the first blockchain unicorn in 2017.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Data Services, Enterprise Software
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GSV Ventures
GSV Ventures is a global venture capital fund focused on the rapidly growing digital education market from Pre-K to Gray. We back early and late stage entrepreneurs transforming the $7 trillion digital education and future of work sectors. Investments include Coursera, ClassDojo, Degreed, and Guild Education. GSV is also the convener of the world renowned ASU+GSV Summit. The 11th annual summit gathered 35,000 founders, investors, educators, and policy makers from 135 countries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Continuing Education, EdTech, Education, Higher Education, Primary Education, STEM Education, Venture Capital, Virtual Workforce, Vocational Education
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Rothenberg Ventures
Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Big Data, Digital Entertainment, Drones, Machine Learning, Robotics, Space Travel
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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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Capital One Ventures
Capital One Ventures is a strategic investor, funding startups that are driving the future of data, technology, and financial services. Founded in 2014, Capital One Ventures has invested in more than 70 companies that help deliver superior experiences to consumers and businesses. Capital One Ventures is based in San Francisco, New York and at Capital One’s headquarters outside of Washington, DC.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Big Data, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, 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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Oriza Ventures
Oriza Ventures is a venture capital fund that primarily invests in early stage technological companies in the United States. Our partners were previously series entrepreneurs, angel investors, and are current professional venture capitalists; thus, we fully understand the startup process, unique culture, and the specific set of skills needed in order to successfully grow a start-up company. Oriza was founded through the philosophy of nurturing business founders through the ups and downs of starting a company with our own experiences and resources. Oriza seeks to back talented entrepreneurs with emerging, innovative, and disruptive technological pursuits, or creative business ideas. We pride ourselves in our long-term approach to investment, and we invest in the entrepreneurs who deeply understand their market, are passionate about their product, and have the drive to cultivate their businesss towards success. Our team brings together a unique combination of a strong operating background, extensive investment experience, cross-border business development ecosystems, and well-connected networks in China and Silicon Valley.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Venture Capital
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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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Envestnet Yodlee Incubator
The Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator helps developers, innovators and entrepreneurs launch disruptive data-driven companies and ignite their growth. Companies receive access to the suite of Envestnet | Yodlee APIs, dedicated technical support, mentorship & guidance, and membership in the broader Yodlee ecosystem. They look at companies pre-seed, post-seed, and even sometimes pre-product.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, B2C, Big Data, FinTech
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Xplorer Capital
Xplorer Capital they invests in industries with technologies in artificial intelligence, automation, IOT( Internet of Things), and robotics), and enterprise SaaS Data Solutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Industrial Automation, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Robotics, Service Industry
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Script Capital
122WEST is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage internet and software investments. The firm seeks to invest in Information technology, software, internet of things, SaaS, fintech, mobile, infrastructure, big data, and cryptocurrency sectors. It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet of Things, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Frost Data Capital
Frost Data Capital partners with large corporations to pair demonstrated market needs with early stage company dynamics. The aim is to address real market pains in a lean, agile, and fast start-up environment. The firm’s venture funds invest only in companies created within the Frost Data Capital ecosystem and incubator.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Juan Capistrano, California, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Internet of Things
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TEC Ventures
TEC Ventures is a boutique seed fund in the Silicon Valley that invests in global entrepreneurs that think outside of the box . Our focus: Internet and software startups with specific interest in social, e-commerce, media, mobile, education, enterprise, security, and consumer internet/mobile apps.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Security, Venture Capital
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SAP Startup Focus
The SAP Startup Focus program is a global program helping startups in the big data, predictive and real-time analytics space develop new applications on SAP HANA and accelerate market traction They offer: 1. Immediate access to the cutting edge HANA technology platform. 2. Access to HANA training and technical experts. 3. Marketing & sales enablement support reaching SAP’s 225,000+ global customer base (for qualified, market ready startups) 4. Opportunities to pitch to the venture community including SAP Ventures and its HANA Real Time fund. 5. A ready community of entrepreneurs, partners, investors and thought leaders. The SAP Startup Focus does not take equity from participating startups and offers all its services at no cost.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Automotive, Big Data, Enterprise Software, Predictive Analytics, Real Time
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