Stacks

What real firms actually run

See the tooling behind venture funds across stages and sizes. Each stack is an editorial reconstruction built from public job postings, case studies and vendor references — a starting point for building your own.

$55B+ AUM

Sequoia Capital

Seed to Growth (Multi-Stage)

The reference franchise in venture, backing companies from idea to IPO under an evergreen Sequoia Capital Fund structure. A firm this size runs institutional data, sourcing and AI tooling alongside deep internal systems.

8 tools in stack

$1B+ across funds AUM

First Round Capital

Pre-Seed & Seed

The firm that defined institutional seed investing, famous for the First Round Review and a product-heavy community platform. Its stack pairs sourcing data with founder-support and talent tooling.

7 tools in stack

$90M+ across funds AUM

Hustle Fund

Pre-Seed (High Velocity)

A high-velocity pre-seed fund writing small first checks at volume, plus the Angel Squad community for new angels. Thousands of decisions a year favor lightweight CRM, enrichment and heavy automation.

7 tools in stack

$30M+ across funds AUM

Weekend Fund

Micro-Fund (Pre-Seed & Seed)

Ryan Hoover's micro-fund, run by a tiny team with an LP base full of operators. The archetypal solo-GP-scale stack: modern CRM, deal docs and fund admin outsourced to software.

6 tools in stack

$85B AUM

Andreessen Horowitz

Multi-Stage Venture & Growth

A multi-stage venture firm investing across software, crypto, bio and American dynamism, with the largest platform team in the industry. Relationship-graph CRM and cap-table tooling anchor its workflow.

7 tools in stack

$30B+ AUM

General Catalyst

Multi-Stage Venture

A global investment firm backing companies from seed through growth, with deep theses in health, defense and applied AI. Its scale demands enterprise-grade data, expert-network and portfolio-monitoring systems.

7 tools in stack

$18B+ AUM

Bessemer Venture Partners

Multi-Stage (Cloud, Health, Consumer)

One of the oldest venture firms in the world, known for its cloud index, published roadmaps and anti-portfolio. A research-led culture leans on market data, traffic intelligence and expert calls.

7 tools in stack

$1B+ across funds AUM

Union Square Ventures

Thesis-Driven Early Stage

A deliberately small, thesis-driven firm whose partners publish their thinking in public. Small funds and concentrated ownership keep the tooling lean: relationship CRM, market data and clean LP reporting.

6 tools in stack

$3B+ AUM

Initialized Capital

Seed

A seed-stage firm founded by Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian with an engineering-first culture. It favors modern sourcing data and enrichment tooling over legacy enterprise systems.

7 tools in stack

$3B+ AUM

Craft Ventures

Early-Stage & Growth (SaaS)

David Sacks' operator-led firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces, known for codifying benchmarks like burn multiple. A metrics-obsessed culture pairs sourcing signals with portfolio KPI tooling.

7 tools in stack

$150M+ across funds AUM

Precursor Ventures

Pre-Seed

Charles Hudson's pre-seed firm, backing founders before traction across a deliberately broad portfolio. A small team managing hundreds of positions keeps the stack simple and monitoring-led.

6 tools in stack