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Bessemer Venture Partners
Total investments : 1,334
San Francisco-based Bessemer Venture Partners tries to support founders in laying strong foundations and building them up into high-growth companies – and it ’ s working : Bessemer has overseen more than 135 IPOs and currently has 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise , consumer and healthcare spaces . High-profile investments have included Shopify , LinkedIn , Fiverr , Wix and Toast ; while Zopa and nCino number among its fintech portfolio . It has US $ 20bn in assets under management with teams of investors and partners in seven regions from Boston to Bangalore .

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Andreessen Horowitz
Total investments : 1,393
Andreessen Horowitz often shortens itself to a16z – 16 representing the number of oftmisspelt characters in between the first and last letters of its lengthy name ! With US $ 35bn in assets under management , the California-headquartered investment firm has an A-to-Z of fintech investments , too – from buy-now-pay-later ( BNPL ) provider Affirm through to automated lead generation outfit Zuma , via the likes of CoinSwitch , Greenlight , OpenInvest , Payrails , Stripe and Wise . To this day , Andreessen Horowitz is led by the general partners who lend it their names .
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