Early-Stage Funds that are Design Later-Stage Funds that are Design and/or Inclusion Oriented** and/or Inclusion Oriented** 500 Startups Accel Partners Bloomberg Beta Bessemer Venture Partners Collaborative Fund Google Ventures Cowboy Ventures Greylock Partners Designer Fund Khosla Ventures Homebrew Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Kapor Capital New Enterprise Associates KPCB Edge Sequoia Capital Fund$ Rivet Ventures True Ventures Slow Ventures ** have (or had) a designer on their team, The “Designification” of Y Combinator or have a stated inclusion focus. Venture Capital NEW Backstage Capital / March 2016 Arlan Hamilton Last year’s Design in Tech Report predicted that there “Hamilton is one of the first LGBT black women to start a venture capital fund.” would be more funds started by designers in the NEW Initialized Capital / October 2016 future. And with the launch of two new funds — one Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan co-founded by designer Garry Tan and another to soon “We’re founders who are engineers, designers, and product people.” be announced — it appears that it’s already beginning. @asanwal @johnmaeda Section 2: Design → De$ign 16