# Funds deploying now: who is writing cheques > Firms we have watched write cheques in the last twelve months: how many, which way their pace is heading, and how fresh the fund behind them is. Source: https://millionrounds.com/deploying (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) 8,714 firms wrote a cheque in the last 12 months · 1,613 also closed a fund in the last 3 years · latest Oct 2026 # Who is *deploying*, and how fast Every cheque here is one we watched: a round announced in the press or reported to a regulator, found and read every night. Not what a firm says about itself; what it did. ## The most active in the last *twelve months* Firm Type Cheques Pace Latest [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Accelerator 1043 Steady Oct 2026 [Alumni Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/us-strategic-tech-fund-an-alumni-ventures-fund) VC 335 Steady Oct 2026 [Andreessen Horowitz](https://millionrounds.com/fund/andreessen-horowitz) VC 320 Steady Oct 2026 [General Catalyst](https://millionrounds.com/fund/general-catalyst) VC 264 Steady Oct 2026 [Techstars](https://millionrounds.com/fund/techstars) VC 229 Slowing Oct 2026 [Sequoia Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sequoia-capital) VC 215 Steady Oct 2026 [Gaingels](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gaingels) Private equity 195 Steady Oct 2026 [EIC Accelerator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eic-accelerator) government 193 Steady Oct 2026 [Plug and Play](https://millionrounds.com/fund/plug-and-play) Accelerator 185 Steady Oct 2026 [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners) VC 181 Steady Oct 2026 [Khosla Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/khosla-ventures) VC 164 Steady Oct 2026 [National Science Foundation](https://millionrounds.com/fund/nsf-small-business-innovation-research-small-business-techno) government 164 Steady Sept 2026 [Founders Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founders-fund) VC 161 Steady Oct 2026 [Antler](https://millionrounds.com/fund/antler) VC 154 Steady Oct 2026 [Innovate UK](https://millionrounds.com/fund/innovate-uk) VC 141 Steady Oct 2026 [Bpifrance](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bpifrance) government 141 Steady Oct 2026 [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bessemer-venture-partners) VC 138 Steady Oct 2026 [BoxGroup](https://millionrounds.com/fund/boxgroup) VC 133 Steady Oct 2026 [SV Angel](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sv-angel) VC 128 Steady Oct 2026 [8VC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/8vc) VC 127 Steady Oct 2026 [Accel](https://millionrounds.com/fund/accel) VC 124 Steady Oct 2026 [NVIDIA](https://millionrounds.com/fund/nvidia) Company 124 Accelerating Oct 2026 [Pioneer Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/pioneer-fund-2) Private equity 123 Steady Sept 2026 [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) VC 121 Steady Oct 2026 [RA Capital Management](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ra-capital-management) Private equity 117 Accelerating Oct 2026 [FJ Labs](https://millionrounds.com/fund/fj-labs) VC 112 Steady Oct 2026 [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mitsubishi-ufj-capital-co-ltd) VC 108 Steady Oct 2026 [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/liquid-2-ventures) VC 101 Steady Oct 2026 [Global Brain Corporation](https://millionrounds.com/fund/global-brain-corporation) VC 98 Steady Sept 2026 [Insight Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/insight-venture-partners) VC 97 Steady Oct 2026 [Lux Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lux-capital) VC 94 Steady Oct 2026 [Menlo Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/menlo-ventures) VC 93 Accelerating Oct 2026 [Mizuho Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mizuho-capital) VC 92 Steady Oct 2026 [New Enterprise Associates](https://millionrounds.com/fund/new-enterprise-associates) VC 89 Steady Oct 2026 [Citibank](https://millionrounds.com/fund/citi) Growth equity 89 Steady Oct 2026 [Mizuho Corporate Bank](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mizuho-corporate-bank) VC 88 Accelerating Oct 2026 [SMBC Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/smbc-venture-capital-2) investment_bank 88 Steady Oct 2026 [Kleiner Perkins](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kleiner-perkins) VC 87 Steady Oct 2026 [B Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/b-capital) VC 87 Steady Oct 2026 [500 Global](https://millionrounds.com/fund/500-startups) Angel 87 Steady Oct 2026 ## A new fund, and *cheques going out* Firms that closed a fund in the last three years and have been investing from it since. A fresh fund is the clearest sign of capital still to deploy. These are the firms early in their spending, not late. - [**Robinhood Ventures** *fund Oct 2026 · 1 cheque*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/robinhood-ventures) - [**Vivo Capital** *fund Oct 2026 · 37 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/vivo-capital) - [**Apollo** *fund Oct 2026 · 37 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/apollo-global-management) - [**Benchmark** *fund Oct 2026 · 36 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark) - [**Shasta Ventures** *fund Oct 2026 · 9 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/shasta-ventures) - [**StepStone** *fund Oct 2026 · 3 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/stepstone) - [**Bridgepoint** *fund Oct 2026 · 2 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bridgepoint-group) - [**Brookfield** *fund Oct 2026 · 2 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/brookfield) - [**Parkway Venture Capital** *fund Oct 2026 · 1 cheque*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/parkway-venture-capital) - [**Multimodal Ventures** *fund Oct 2026 · 1 cheque*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/multimodal-ventures) - [**Neuberger Berman** *fund Oct 2026 · 1 cheque*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/neuberger-berman) - [**General Catalyst** *fund Oct 2026 · 264 cheques*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/general-catalyst) ## How pace is *judged* Comparing a firm's last twelve months with the twelve before is misleading on its own, because we see more of the market than we did: across every firm, we observed -1% more cheques in the recent year than the year before. Part of that is the market and part is us: we read more sources, and name more of the investors in each round. So pace here is relative. A firm is **accelerating** when it grew faster than the market as we see it (by half again, and by at least two cheques) and **slowing** by the mirror of that. A firm with fewer than four cheques in two years is marked too few to tell, rather than given a direction it has not earned. A fund date comes from the firm's own regulatory filing where it has made one. Most firms outside the United States have not, so a blank there means we have not seen a filing, not that there has been no fund. ## Filter every active firm All 8,714 firms, by type, country, pace and how recently they closed a fund. 598 are growing faster than the market as we see it. Open the deployment list[Or read the rounds themselves](https://millionrounds.com/rounds) Free. An account is your email and a password.