NVCA and Venture Forward #VCHumanCapital Pledge

We are committed to advancing a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive venture ecosystem. As part of this commitment, our venture capital (VC) firm is signing the NVCA and Venture Forward #VCHumanCapital Pledge to participate in the 2020 VC Human Capital Survey—powered by NVCA, Venture Forward and Deloitte—by submitting our firm’s workforce demographics and talent management details by the Survey deadline. This Survey is a critical component for tracking, measuring, and reporting the industry’s data and progress, and we commit to doing our part to further this industry-wide, data-driven effort to drive meaningful change. 

Learn more about the 2020 VC Human Capital Survey

VC Firms Who Have Signed the #VCHumanCapital Pledge

(145 firms have signed as of September 30, 2020)

If you are a US-based active venture capital firm and want to add your firm’s name to this commitment to complete the VC Human Capital Survey, please contact Maryam Haque (maryam@ventureforward.org).

  • 1315 Capital
  • 5AM Ventures*
  • 7wire Ventures
  • Acario Innovations
  • Act One Ventures
  • Adams Street Partners, LLC 
  • Arboretum Ventures
  • at.inc/
  • Augment Ventures
  • Avestria Ventures
  • B37 Ventures
  • Battery Ventures*
  • Benchmark*
  • Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA
  • Bessemer Venture Partners*
  • BioAdvance
  • Blue Bear Capital
  • Bonfire Ventures
  • Borealis Ventures
  • Bowery Capital
  • Brainstorm Ventures
  • Bread and Butter Ventures
  • Calibrate Ventures
  • Callais Capital Management 
  • Catalyst Health Ventures
  • Chingona Ventures
  • Civilization Ventures
  • Clocktower Technology Ventures
  • Comcast Ventures
  • Commerce Ventures
  • Costanoa Ventures*
  • Creative Ventures
  • Cultivation Capital
  • Cultivian Sandbox Venture Management 
  • Elevate Ventures
  • Empire State Development – NY Ventures*
  • Fika Ventures
  • FinTech Collective
  • Forerunner Ventures
  • ForgePoint Capital
  • Foundry Group
  • F-Prime Capital
  • FTV Capital 
  • GGV Capital
  • Glasswing Ventures 
  • Grand Ventures
  • Granite Growth Health Partners*
  • Greenspring Associates
  • Greycroft*
  • Grotech Ventures*
  • GV
  • Harlem Capital
  • Hewlett Packard Pathfinder
  • High Alpha*
  • Huron River Ventures
  • Hustle Fund
  • Hyde Park Venture Partners
  • Icon Ventures*
  • IDEA Fund Partners
  • Illuminate Ventures
  • Impact Venture Capital
  • Initialized
  • In-Q-Tel*
  • InterWest Partners 
  • IU Ventures
  • JMI Equity
  • JumpStart*
  • Jump Capital
  • Kindred Ventures 
  • Launch Tennessee
  • LDV Capital
  • Levensohn Venture Partners
  • Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central PA
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners*
  • Lightstone Ventures
  • Longitude Capital*
  • M25
  • Material Impact
  • Maven Ventures
  • Mayfield
  • MBX Capital
  • Menlo Ventures
  • Mercury Fund
  • MiLA Capital Advisors*
  • NEA*
  • Next Frontier Capital*
  • NextView Ventures
  • Next Ventures
  • NGP Capital
  • Norwest Venture Partners
  • Obvious Ventures
  • Ocean Azul Partners
  • Oregon Venture Fund
  • Owl Ventures
  • Pappas Capital
  • Plum Alley
  • Precursor Ventures*
  • Pritzker Group Venture Capital*
  • Questa Capital*
  • Redpoint Ventures*
  • Relevance Capital
  • Renegade Partners*
  • Renaissance Venture Capital
  • Revolution
  • River Cities Capital Funds
  • Salesforce Ventures*
  • Sandalphon Capital
  • Sandbox Industries 
  • Scale Venture Partners*
  • Scout Ventures
  • Shasta Ventures
  • SixThirty Ventures
  • Social Impact Capital
  • Sofinnova Investments
  • Sound Ventures
  • Space Capital
  • Spectrum Equity*
  • Summit Partners*
  • SVB Capital
  • Synchrony Ventures
  • Techstars
  • Ten Eleven Ventures
  • Tensility Venture Partners
  • TFX Capital
  • Threshold Ventures*
  • Tola Capital
  • Top Tier Capital Partners*
  • Toyota AI Ventures
  • Trinity Ventures*
  • True Ventures
  • True Wealth Ventures
  • Uncork Capital
  • Underscore VC
  • Union Square Ventures*
  • University of Vermont Health Network Ventures
  • Unovis Asset Management
  • Unshackled Ventures
  • Updata Partners
  • Valor Ventures
  • Vamos Ventures
  • Vensana Capital*
  • VMG Partners
  • World Innovation Lab (WiL)
  • WowMii Ventures
  • Zetta Venture Partners

*Denotes firms represented on the Venture Forward or NVCA boards

Why is advancing the next era of venture capital important?

Venture capital is an American national treasure. It has fueled the advancement of innovation, economies, and people. It has created value, jobs, wealth, and life-changing products and services. Though venture capital as an industry may be young and as an asset class may be small, high-growth startups and their long-term investors have truly changed the world.

To continue the success of the industry’s past 50 years to the next 50 years and beyond, we must expand opportunities for people of all backgrounds to access the venture ecosystem and thrive. We must educate future leaders on best practices and help them learn from the industry’s rich history. We must help firms build strong, healthy cultures and values. We must keep the public and ecosystem informed through qualitative and quantitative insights.

By investing in tomorrow’s leaders today, we shape the next era of venture capital.

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10,000+

high-growth startups—across all 50 states and DC—raised venture funding in 2019 to build and grow their businesses.

42%

of all U.S. IPOs from 1974 to 2015 were venture-backed companies, representing 63% of the market capitalization and 85% of R&D.

2.9 million

is the average net jobs created annually between 1980 and 2010 by high-growth startups, which account for ~50% of gross jobs created in the U.S.

1,300+

U.S. venture firms are active today, managing an aggregate of $444 billion in assets.

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