Venture Forward’s work to diversify, educate, and empower the VC investor class would not be possible without the generous support of our donors and sponsors. Their financial support allows us to provide education, resources, and connections to drive intersectional diversity within the VC community.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we are solely funded through contributions of the donors listed below.
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Pitch & Catherine Johnson (Asset Management Company)
Anonymous
Brook Byers (Kleiner Perkins)
Jon Callaghan (True Ventures)
Howard Cox (Greylock)
Dixon Doll (DCM)
Brad Feld (Foundry Group)
Felicis Ventures
Rick Frisbie (Battery Ventures)
Ed Glassmeyer (Oak Investment Partners)
Mark Gorenberg (Zetta Venture Partners)
Jeffrey Harris (Warburg Pincus/Global Reserve Group)
Kleiner Perkins
Dick Kramlich (NEA/Greenbay Ventures)
Longitude Capital Management
John Martinson (Martinson Ventures)
Terry McGuire (Polaris Partners)
Kate Mitchell (Scale Venture Partners)
Chuck Newhall (NEA/Greenspring Associates)
Ray Rothrock (Venrock/FiftySix)
Scott Sandell (NEA)
2045 Ventures
Activate Venture Partners
Vineeta Agarwala (Andreessen Horowitz)
Ahmed AlTammar
Apax Partners
Assure
Forest Baskett (NEA)
Battery Ventures
Benhamou Global Ventures
Bond Capital
Brian Borders (Borders Law Group)
Jim Breyer (Breyer Capital)
Chris Brody (Warburg Pincus / Vantage Partners)
Michael Brown (Battery Ventures)
Kristina Burow (ARCH Venture Partners)
Callais Capital
Carta
Chingona Ventures
Christy & Eric Chin (Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Crosslink Capital)
Chingona Ventures
Gavin Christensen (Kickstart Fund)
Beezer Clarkson (Sapphire Partners)
Peter Chung (Summit Partners)
Louis Citron (NEA)
Cooley
Costanoa Ventures
Michael Cronin (Weston Presidio)
Jeff Crowe (Norwest Venture Partners)
Diane Daych (Granite Growth Health Partners)
Juliet Barnett de Baubigny (Bond Capital)
Allison & Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners)
Kristen Domzalski (MATH Venture Partners)
Scott Dorsey (High Alpha)
Christopher Douvos (Ahoy Capital)
Brian Dovey (Domain Associates)
Ryan Drant (Questa Capital)
Bill Draper (Draper Richards)
William P. Egan (Marion Equity/Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co.)
Barry Eggers (Lightspeed)
Bill Elmore (Foundation Capital)
Sean Engel (Top Tier Capital Partners)
Phil Ferneau (Borealis Ventures)
Jim Feuille (Crosslink Capital)
Norm Fogelsong (IVP)
Foresite Capital
Forgepoint Capital
Bobby Franklin (NVCA)
Diana Frazier (FLAG/Aberdeen-Standard)
Steve Fredrick (Grotech Ventures)
Bon French (Adams Street Partners)
A.J. Frey (Gibson Dunn)
Venky Ganesan (Menlo Ventures)
Jan Garfinkle (Arboretum Ventures)
Daniel Gebremedhin (Flare Capital Partners)
General Catalyst
Aziz Gilani (Mercury Fund)
Chris Girgenti (Pritzker Group Venture Capital)
Jennifer Friel Goldstein (SVB Capital)
Bob Goodman (Bessemer Venture Partners)
Jason Green (Emergence Capital Partners)
Josh Green (Mohr Davidow Ventures/ Carbon 3D)
Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures)
Greenspring Associates (now StepStone)
Greycroft
Jessie Guo (Legacy Venture)
GV
Jim Hale
David Hall (Revolution)
Maryam Haque (Venture Forward)
Harrick Family Foundation
Peter Hébert (Lux Capital)
HGGC
Eric Hicklen (WowMii Ventures)
High Alpha
Tim Hsia (Context Ventures)
Icon Ventures
Insight Partners
Intel Capital
Aaron Jacobson (NEA)
Ross Jaffe (Versant Ventures/ NEA)
John Jaggers (Sevin Rosen Funds)
Jill Jarrett (Benchmark)
Johnson & Johnson Innovation
J.P. Morgan Capital Connect
Nagraj Kashyap (SoftBank Vision Fund)
Deepak Kamra (Canaan)
Patrick Kerins (NEA)
Dan Kidle (Arboretum Ventures)
Jacqueline LeSage Krause (Munich Re Ventures)
Steven Krausz (USVP)
Latham & Watkins
Legacy Venture
Dan Levine (Accel)
Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed)
Trevor Loy (Flywheel Ventures)
Rick Kroon (Sprout Group)
Scott Kupor (Andreessen Horowitz)
Ray & Jennifer Leach (JumpStart)
Jeffrey D. Lee & Hee J. Lee (Northern Light Venture Capital)
Mariah Lichtenstern (DiverseCity Ventures)
Rebecca Lucia (5AM Ventures)
M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund
Paul Maeder (Highland Capital Partners)
Mo Makhzoumi (NEA)
Denise Marks (CareQuest)
Maveron
Emily Melton (Threshold Ventures)
Tom McConnell (NEA/Vanguard Ventures)
Mighty Capital
Candice Morgan (GV)
Sunil Nagaraj (Ubiquity Ventures)
Patricia Nakache (Trinity Ventures)
John Neis (Venture Investors)
Ashton Newhall (StepStone)
NewSpring Capital
Next Frontier Capital
NGP Capital
Cesar Nunez (UC Berkeley)
Demi Obayomi (Sapphire)
Terry Opdendyk (ONSET Ventures/BerkeleyHaas)
Nnamdi Okike (645 Ventures)
Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures)
Carmen Palafox (2045 Capital)
Art Pappas (Pappas Capital)
Pappas Capital
Bob Pavey (Pavey Family Investments)
Precursor Ventures
Will Price (Next Frontier Capital)
Omega Funds
Reach Capital
Renata Quintini (Renegade Partners)
Redpoint Ventures
Brian Rich (Catalyst Investors)
Carmichael Roberts (Material Impact)
Elliott Robinson (Bessemer)
Heidi Roizen (Threshold Ventures)
Salesforce Ventures
Greg Sands (Costanoa Ventures)
Sapphire
Scale Venture Partners
Tim Schaller (NEA)
Kent Scott
Deena Shakir (Lux Capital)
Dana Settle (Greycroft)
Sofinnova Investments
Todd Speece (Citi)
Stephen Socolof (Tech Council Ventures)
John Somorjai (Salesforce Ventures)
David Spreng (Runway Growth Capital)
Spur Capital Partners
Summit Partners
Jennifer Tegan (NY Ventures)
True Ventures
Hillary Tyree (SVB)
Uncork Capital
Anarghya Vardhana (Maveron)
Vela Wood
Vensana Capital
Don Vieira (Sequoia)
Faith Voinovich (Ohio Innovation Fund)
David Wachter (W Capital Partners)
Nicole Walker (Arboretum Ventures)
Nick Washburn (Intel Capital)
WilmerHale
Maximilian Winter (Harmonix)
David York (Top Tier Capital Partners)
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