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
Assure
Forest Baskett (NEA)
Benhamou Global Ventures
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
Christy & Eric Chin (Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Crosslink Capital)
Chingona Ventures
Gavin Christensen (Kickstart Fund)
Beezer Clarkson (Sapphire
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)
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)
Jessie Guo (Legacy Venture)
GV
Jim Hale
David Hall (Revolution)
Maryam Haque (Venture Forward)
Harrick Family Foundation
HGGC
Eric Hicklen (WowMii Ventures)
High Alpha
Tim Hsia (Context Ventures)
Insight Partners
Intel Capital
Aaron Jacobson (NEA)
Ross Jaffe (Versant Ventures/ NEA)
John Jaggers (Sevin Rosen Funds)
Jill Jarrett (Benchmark)
Johnson & Johnson Innovation
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)
M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund
Paul Maeder (Highland Capital Partners)
Mo Makhzoumi (NEA)
Denise Marks (CareQuest)
Emily Melton (Threshold Ventures)
Tom McConnell (NEA/Vanguard Ventures)
Mighty Capital
Patricia Nakache (Trinity Ventures)
Ashton Newhall (StepStone)
NewSpring 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
Renata Quintini (Renegade Partners)
Redpoint Ventures
Brian Rich (Catalyst Investors)
Carmichael Roberts (Material Impact)
Heidi Roizen (Threshold Ventures)
Salesforce Ventures
Greg Sands (Costanoa Ventures)
Scale Venture Partners
Tim Schaller (NEA)
Kent Scott
Dana Settle (Greycroft)
Sofinnova Investments
Stephen Socolof (Tech Council Ventures)
John Somorjai (Salesforce Ventures)
David Spreng (Runway Growth Capital)
Spur Capital Partners
Jennifer Tegan (NY Ventures)
Hillary Tyree (SVB)
Uncork Capital
Vela Wood
Vensana Capital
Don Vieira (Sequoia)
Nicole Walker (Arboretum Ventures)
Nick Washburn (Intel Capital)
WilmerHale
Maximilian Winter (Harmonix)
David York (Top Tier Capital Partners)
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