Icon Ventures is an American

venture capital firm Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which hav ...

located in

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History

Icon Ventures was founded by Joe Horowitz in 2003 in

under the name

Jafco Ventures , abbreviated as JAFCO is a investment holding company headquartered in the Toranomon district of Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. It is listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. JAFCO is considered to be the oldest as well as largest Vent ...

. The company rebranded as Icon Ventures in January 2015. Until 2014, its capital was exclusively provided by JAFCO, a Japanese investment fund. In October 2017, Icon Ventures raised its sixth fund of $265M from a diversified group of investors. In October 2018, the firm announced an expansion of that fund to $375M.

Business description

Icon Ventures has historically funded early stage, and growth stage investments in private technology-based businesses. Significant technology companies that it has backed include Bill.com,

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, and Proofpoint. Icon Ventures Fund I is currently listed as the 6th best performing fund of recent times in the sub-$250M category by Pitchbook. As of August 2021, its most recent lead investments were At Bay,

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{{Private equity and venture capital Financial services companies established in 2003 Privately held companies based in California Companies based in Palo Alto, California Venture capital firms of the United States

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