Howard Lerman
Roam Founder
The VCs Backing Remote Companies
June 16, 2026
Fundraising as a remote-first company can be challenging, since many VCs are on the record as being anti-remote, believing that in-office leads to the best outcomes. This makes sense. It is simple pattern recognition for what they have seen work in the past.
But today, AI productivity, global talent access, and remote work platforms platforms are rapidly changing the narrative. The majority of new companies are being formed as AI-native companies and incubated as fully remote or remote remote-friendly. They are incorporating AI Coworkers as their early teams. They are accessing on-demand global talent through work platforms like Deel, Howdy, Remote and Oyster. And they are maximizing productivity and building culture through remote work platforms like Roam.
This new crop of companies is following in the footsteps of hugely successful remote companies like Shopify, Zapier, and GitLab. Companies like Flex, Omni, and AcuityMD are exploding and backed by tier-1 VCs.
Below is a list of 120 VCs who have backed notable remote-first or remote-ish companies.
| Partner | Firm | Companies | # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Volpi | Index Ventures | Elastic, Cockroach Labs, Dropbox, Temporal | 4 |
| Lachy Groom | Lachy Groom (solo) | WorkOS, Railway, Ashby | 3 |
| Peter Levine | Andreessen Horowitz | Replit, Pinecone, Graphite | 3 |
| Andrew Reed | Sequoia Capital | Sourcegraph, ElevenLabs, Loom | 3 |
| Ali Rowghani | Y Combinator Continuity | Deel, PostHog, Mattermost | 3 |
| Tyson Clark | GV | Vercel, PostHog | 2 |
| Reid Christian | CRV | Clerk, Browserbase | 2 |
| Matthew Jacobson | ICONIQ Growth | GitLab, Omni | 2 |
| Jennifer Li | Andreessen Horowitz | ElevenLabs, Mux | 2 |
| Caryn Marooney | Coatue | Supabase, Airbyte | 2 |
| Alexis Ohanian | Initialized / Seven Seven Six | Coinbase, Cal.com | 2 |
| Brandon Reeves | Lux Capital | Hugging Face, Chronosphere | 2 |
| David Schneider | Coatue | Grafana Labs, Mux | 2 |
| Glenn Solomon | Notable Capital (ex-GGV) | Neon, Browserbase | 2 |
| Eric Vishria | Benchmark | AcuityMD, Greptile | 2 |
| Jules Maltz | IVP | Clipboard Health, Roam | 2 |
| Anish Acharya | Andreessen Horowitz | Deel | 1 |
| Neeraj Agarwal | Battery Ventures | Mattermost | 1 |
| Rohit Agarwal | Peak XV (Sequoia India) | Multiplier | 1 |
| Praveen Akkiraju | Insight Partners | PlanetScale | 1 |
| Todd Arfman | Addition | Render | 1 |
| Alex Bard | Redpoint Ventures | Attio | 1 |
| Logan Bartlett | Redpoint Ventures | AcuityMD | 1 |
| Marc Benioff | Salesforce Ventures | Automattic | 1 |
| Ernie Bio | Forgepoint Capital | Huntress | 1 |
| Phil Black | True Ventures | Automattic | 1 |
| David Blyghton | Highland Europe | n8n | 1 |
| Jake Bodanis | Portage | Flex | 1 |
| Erica Brescia | Redpoint Ventures | Railway | 1 |
| Dan Cahana | Notable Capital | Browserbase | 1 |
| Martin Casado | Andreessen Horowitz | Convex | 1 |
| Fredrik Cassel | Creandum | Lovable | 1 |
| Sarah Catanzaro | Amplify Partners | Modal | 1 |
| Patrick Chase | Redpoint Ventures | Modal | 1 |
| Jerry Chen | Greylock | Chronosphere | 1 |
| Miles Clements | Accel | Linear | 1 |
| Tony Conrad | True Ventures | Automattic | 1 |
| David Cowan | Bessemer Venture Partners | Zapier | 1 |
| Byron Deeter | Bessemer Venture Partners | Vapi | 1 |
| Chris Dixon | Andreessen Horowitz | Coinbase | 1 |
| Mike Droesch | Bessemer Venture Partners | Vapi | 1 |
| Ira Ehrenpreis | DBL Partners | Mapbox | 1 |
| Carl Eschenbach | Sequoia Capital | Grafana Labs | 1 |
| Christine Esserman | Accel | Graphite | 1 |
| Jay Farber | F-Prime Capital | Ashby | 1 |
| Alex Ferrara | Bessemer Venture Partners | Shopify | 1 |
| Lee Fixel | Addition | Chronosphere | 1 |
| Ben Fletcher | Accel | Lovable | 1 |
| Ilya Fushman | Kleiner Perkins | Loom | 1 |
| David George | Andreessen Horowitz | ElevenLabs | 1 |
| Julia Gillard | Amplo | Andela | 1 |
| Randy Glein | DFJ Growth | Mapbox | 1 |
| Will Griffith | ICONIQ Growth | Drata | 1 |
| Sarah Guo | Conviction | Baseten | 1 |
| Gaurav Gupta | Lightspeed | Grafana Labs | 1 |
| Saar Gur | CRV | Mercury | 1 |
| Jan Hammer | Index Ventures | Remote.com | 1 |
| Anu Hariharan | Avra | Hex | 1 |
| Michael Hirshland | Polaris Partners | Automattic | 1 |
| David Hornik | August Capital (now Lobby) | GitLab | 1 |
| Sonya Huang | Sequoia Capital | Mercury | 1 |
| Alex Immerman | Andreessen Horowitz | Sardine | 1 |
| Joseph Jacks | OSS Capital | Cal.com | 1 |
| Christoph Janz | Point Nine | Whereby | 1 |
| Pete Jensen | Spectrum Equity | Customer.io | 1 |
| Lydia Jett | SoftBank Vision Fund | Andela | 1 |
| Omobola Johnson | TLcom Capital | Andela | 1 |
| Saagar Kulkarni | Stripes | Oyster | 1 |
| Amit Kumar | Accel | Tailscale | 1 |
| Danielle Lay | NEA | beehiiv | 1 |
| Dan Levine | Accel | Vercel | 1 |
| Anton Levy | General Atlantic | Chronosphere | 1 |
| Yoko Li | Andreessen Horowitz | Resend | 1 |
| Radhika Malik | Dell Technologies Capital | RunPod | 1 |
| Arun Mathew | Accel | Webflow | 1 |
| Michael McBride | GV | Attio | 1 |
| Mark McLaughlin | Alkeon Capital | Ashby | 1 |
| Karan Mehandru | Madrona | Clerk | 1 |
| Bucky Moore | Kleiner Perkins | PlanetScale | 1 |
| Dave Munichiello | GV | GitLab | 1 |
| Sunil Nagaraj | Bessemer (now Ubiquity) | Zapier | 1 |
| Stephen Nundy | Lakestar | Pitch | 1 |
| Deven Parekh | Insight Partners | Automattic | 1 |
| Yash Patel | Titanium Ventures | Flex | 1 |
| Seth Pierrepont | ICONIQ Growth | ElevenLabs | 1 |
| Erin Price-Wright | Index Ventures | Weaviate | 1 |
| Alex Rampell | Andreessen Horowitz | Mercury | 1 |
| Sri Rao | Silversmith Capital | Webflow | 1 |
| Yasmin Razavi | Spark Capital | Deel | 1 |
| Elliott Robinson | Bessemer Venture Partners | Render | 1 |
| Dan Rose | Coatue | Mercury | 1 |
| Mark Rostick | Intel Capital | RunPod | 1 |
| Nikhil Sachdev | Insight Partners | PlanetScale | 1 |
| Nicholas Sando | Octopus Ventures | Remofirst | 1 |
| Jake Saper | Emergence Capital | Maze | 1 |
| Bryan Schreier | Sequoia Capital | Clipboard Health | 1 |
| Hannah Seal | Index Ventures | Remote.com | 1 |
| Jordan Segall | Redpoint Ventures | Railway | 1 |
| Rama Sekhar | Menlo Ventures | Graphite | 1 |
| Aydin Senkut | Felicis Ventures | Supabase | 1 |
| Arjun Sethi | Tribe Capital | Alpaca | 1 |
| Brian Singerman | Founders Fund | Chronosphere | 1 |
| Hunter Somerville | StepStone Group | AcuityMD | 1 |
| Angela Strange | Andreessen Horowitz | Sardine | 1 |
| Sven Strohband | Khosla Ventures | GitLab | 1 |
| Laela Sturdy | CapitalG | Webflow | 1 |
| Garry Tan | Initialized Capital | Coinbase | 1 |
| Pule Taukobong | CRE Venture Capital | Andela | 1 |
| Victoria Treyger | Felicis Ventures | Maze | 1 |
| Tim Tully | Menlo Ventures | Neon | 1 |
| Tomasz Tunguz | Redpoint → Theory Ventures | Omni | 1 |
| Suken Vakil | JMI Equity | Huntress | 1 |
| Casber Wang | Sapphire Ventures | Huntress | 1 |
| Sarah Wang | Andreessen Horowitz | Hex | 1 |
| Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Coinbase | 1 |
| Oren Yunger | Notable Capital (ex-GGV) | Drata | 1 |
| Sangeen Zeb | GV | Chronosphere | 1 |
| Stephanie Zhan | Sequoia Capital | Linear | 1 |
- Andreessen Horowitz — 11
- Bessemer — 6 · Accel — 6
- Redpoint — 5 (Bartlett, Chase, Brescia, Segall, Bard) · Sequoia — 5 (US: Huang, Eschenbach, Reed, Zhan, Schreier; Peak XV's Agarwal counted separately)
- GV — 4 (Munichiello, Clark, Zeb, McBride) · Index — 4
- Coatue, ICONIQ, Insight, Notable/GGV — 3 each
- Felicis — 2 (Senkut, Treyger) · plus CRV, Menlo, Kleiner at 2
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