Though CrunchFund doesn’t seem to have nearly the assets of those investors found higher up on this list, they do have some extremely heavyweight partners including AOL, Accel Partners, Austin Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, the founding partners of Andreessen Horowitz, each of the general partners of Benchmark Capital, Ron Conway, Yuri Milner, Brad Garlinghouse & Kevin Rose.
They’re also a recent startup themselves, meaning everyone should plan to see massive holdings from this company and its experienced partners very soon. Crunchfund is 100% committed to helping early stage startups, in the seed and early growth stages (the highest level they’ve invested in the last 3 years have been seed – series B investments). Their recent investments include: Simbi, Forward, Marble, Trusted, Confide, Seed, Pingpad, Lug, GitLab INC, Airtable, Mobcrush, Wag, Game Analytics, Feed.fm, and Playdots among others.
Founded: 2011
Funds raised / currently managed: ~ $59 billion
Focus industries: Mobile, curated web, software, Bitcoin, information security, enterprise, SaaS, social networking, consumer hardware, media technologies.