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Top Venture Capital Twitter accounts

Top Venture Capital Twitter Accounts You Should Follow

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The World of VC Twitter:

The most successful venture capitalists today have a strong presence on Twitter, as they can establish their business and become a global thought leader by gaining a large following in a short amount of time. VCs have an increasing incentive to market their business personally on Twitter, and their experiences offer invaluable insights for all entrepreneurs and investors.

If you are an entrepreneur or investor looking to dive into venture, or someone who wants to learn and be informed about venture capital directly from the best in the biz, following the best venture capital twitter accounts would be a great place to start your journey.

Why Should You Follow VCs on Twitter?

Twitter can be a game-changer when it comes to learning about venture capital. It has become the go-to medium for following leading venture capitalists, consuming their thought leadership, and building your own presence by engaging with the Venture Capital Twitter community.

Twitter will keep you up to date with news on the venture capital industry in real-time. Many VCs post snippets from their personal and professional lives, which can offer you a glimpse into their daily lives and help you understand their worldview, beliefs, working ethic, etc. You can also get better access to webinars, live conferences, local events, and job postings within the venture capital community and portfolio companies directly on your Twitter feed. This will increase the likelihood that you will meet them in person and establish a relationship.

How can you get noticed by VCs on Twitter?

Stay current in the VC world by reading opinions and thoughts from the best VCs, interacting with them directly, and following the news and updates about them. You can start interacting with VCs on Twitter by liking and retweeting posts that interest you. Don't forget to turn on the notifications for their tweets. To begin a conversation, you can regularly leave comments and tag people. Be consistent and stay on top of the game, and you might get the attention of the VC giants in the vast world of VC Twitter.

List of Venture Capital Twitter Accounts to Follow:

  1. Guy Kawasaki, @GuyKawasaki

    Guy Kawasaki is an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He is responsible for popularizing the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism. Guy Kawasaki is currently the chief evangelist of Canva and hosts the Remarkable People podcast.

  2. Mark Cuban, @mcuban

    Mark Cuban is a famous entrepreneur, businessman, investor, and writer. A popular figure in the world of sports, he also owns the Dallas Mavericks, NBA basketball team. Cuban’s net worth in 2016 was around $3.4 billion, making him one of the wealthiest and most influential people in the US.

  3. Bill Gurley, @bgurley

    Bill Gurley is an American venture capitalist best known as the general partner of Benchmark Capital firm. Among his investments at Benchmark, Bill Gurley holds board seats for Brighter, DogVacay, Good Eggs, GrubHub, HackerOne, Linden Lab, LiveOps, Nextdoor, OpenTable, and Sailthru. Bill is also consistently listed among the top dealmakers in the United States in the Forbes Midas List.

  4. Mark Suster, @msuster

    An investor who has gained fame as a managing partner at the top Los Angeles venture capital firm, Upfront Ventures. He has led Upfront Ventures to invest in Nanit, Bird, and uBeam. He previously worked as a vice president for Salesforce after the company acquired his startup, Koral, in 2007. Entrepreneur turned VC, he shares valuable lessons from his experiences on his Twitter account.

  5. Seth Levine, @sether

    Seth Levine founded the Foundry Group and has previously worked at Mobius Venture Capital, FirstWorld Communications, ICG Communications, and Morgan Stanley.

  6. Fred Wilson, @fredwilson

    Fred Wilson is an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, Etsy and MongoDB.

  7. Brad Feld, @bfeld

    Brad Feld is an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, a firm he started with partners Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. Feld began financing technology startups in the early 1990s, first as an angel and later an institutional investor.

  8. Jeff Clavier, @Jeff

    Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC), one of the original seed VC firms in Silicon Valley that has closed 200+ investments since 2004. An early angel investor in Web 2.0, Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll (Yahoo), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report (Turner), Gnip (Twitter), Fitbit, Eventbrite, Postmates, Shippo and Molekule.

  9. Nic Brisbourne, @brisbourne

    Nic Brisbourne is the founder and CEO of Forward Partners. He has worked in venture capital in London and Silicon Valley for over 20 years. Before founding Forward in 2013, he was a founding Partner at leading venture capital firm Draper Esprit. Before entering the venture capital industry, he worked as a strategy consultant for Gemini Consulting and at London-based startup Operis Group.

  10. Christine Herron, @christine

    Christine Herron is an early-stage investor and diversity advocate, co-leading the Intel Capital Diversity Fund while investing in startups. She oversees diversity investments across Intel Capital sectors to support technology companies founded by women, underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ, or veterans.

  11. Raj Kapoor, @Rajil

    Raj Kapoor is Chief Strategy Officer and head of autonomous business Lyft, adventure capitalist, VC at Mayfield, and former fitmob (now ClassPass) and Snapfish Co-Founder/CEO. He has created a stealth VC fund focused entirely on addressing planetary challenges including climate change, resource sustainability, and a more circular economy.

  12. Alfred Lin, @Alfred_Lin

    Alfred Lin is an American venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Lin was the COO, CFO, and Chairman of Zappos.com until 2010. In 2013, Forbes named Lin as one of the "30 Most Influential People in Tech."

  13. Paul Graham, @paulg

    Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, blog, and Hacker News.

  14. Marc Andreessen, @pmarca

    Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He also co-founded LoudCloud, which, renamed Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007.

  15. Ben Horowitz, @bhorowitz

    Benjamin Abraham Horowitz is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder, and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Author of two New York Times bestsellers, he has also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect the ablest cultural leaders to the best new technology companies and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.

  16. Jeremy Liew, @jeremysliew

    Jeremy Liew is a venture capitalist focusing on "omnichannel" projects that bridge the gap between the online world and the real one. Liew joined Lightspeed in 2006 as the company's first consumer-tech partner after working for Netscape, AOL, and Barry Diller's IAC but is perhaps best known for investing in Snapchat as its first seed investor. Among his other notable investments are Affirm, Blockchain, the Honest Company, and HungryRoot.

  17. Josh Kopelman, @joshk

    Josh Kopelman is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist from the United States. Kopelman is best known as the founder of First Round Capital, a pioneering seed-stage venture capital firm that led the seed round of Uber. Josh has consistently been ranked among the top 20 Venture Capitalists in the world.

  18. David Hornik, @davidhornik

    David Hornik is an investor at Lobby Capital, the executive producer of the Lobby Conferences. His investments primarily focus on consumer-facing software and services, enterprise applications, and infrastructure software. Besides writing the first Venture Capital blog, he teaches business and law at Harvard Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

  19. Jason Caplain, @jcaplain

    Jason is the General Partner and Co-Founder of Bull City Venture Partners. Jason co-founded Southern Capitol Ventures before co-founding BCVP. Jason currently serves on the board at Spiffy and is a board observer at Circonus, Levitate, ServiceTrade, and Tiny Earth Toys. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Venture Atlanta and consistently one of Virginia's top seed investors.

  20. Paul Kedrosky, @pkedrosky

    Dr. Kedrosky is the co-founder and managing partner of SK Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. More than two dozen of his investments are in drones, mobile, software as a service, and other areas, and has sold companies to Cisco, Twitter, and many others. Currently, he is a contributing editor at Bloomberg, where he comments regularly on early-stage technology and start-ups. He has been an advisor to the Kauffman Foundation and OMERS Ventures, a Canadian venture investor. He was previously a venture partner with Venture West, a $500m venture capital firm.

Check back frequently for new additions. If you know a VC Twitter account that should be on this list, send us an email hi@altorise.com.
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