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Top 25 AI venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States
RevenueBase identified 107 AI venture capital firms headquartered in Palo Alto, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,564 professional contacts across them, including 980 with verified work emails. Across the United States, San Francisco is the largest hub for this category (329 companies); Palo Alto has 107.
This list covers AI venture capital firms headquartered in Palo Alto, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest AI venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 981 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eclipse invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of companies in the physical economy, the industries that shape resilience, competitiveness, and security.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building market-leading companies since 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DCVC and its principals have backed brilliant people changing global-scale industries for over twenty years, helping create tens of billions of dollars of wealth for founders…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DTC invests in determined early-stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for the enterprise, connecting them to the capital, expertise, and customers they…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Foundation Capital was founded in 1995.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family in 1969, Venrock partners with entrepreneurs to build some of the world’s most disruptive, successful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “True Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that is first to believe in brilliant founders and invests in them at the earliest stages, when partnership matters most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Playground Global is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm investing in technical founders to transform ambitious ideas into high-impact businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fusion Fund invests in promising start-up companies who have technology barriers in their business models.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Defining the future of venture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2013, Wing Venture Capital is a venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in the AI-first technology stack.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SAIGroup is a private investment company focused on acquiring and growing enterprise AI companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Early stage tech VC” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Translink Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto with $1B under management, and investing out of its fifth fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AI-first, seed-first fund in digital health, automation (cars, drones, robots) & enterprise” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Costanoa exists to elevate founders building companies of consequence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Xfund is the early-stage venture capital firm built to back entrepreneurs who think laterally and experiment across disciplines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Trident Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm investing in Software, Services and Internet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hack VC is a thesis-driven venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Artiman is an early stage sector agnostic venture fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Bangalore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SAV(Scale Asia Ventures) is a Palo Alto based multi-stage venture fund focused on Enterprise Software, Data-driven Life Sciences, and AI-powered Vertical Industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venture capital firm in Palo Alto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a Silicon Valley venture capital rm purpose-built to help startup teams win in frontier technology and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blitzscaling Ventures invests alongside the world's top VCs to help rapidly-scaling companies in winner-take-most markets become global leaders by providing in-depth scaling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: AI venture capital firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names AI venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of AI venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name AI venture capital firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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AI venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Palo Alto, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Palo Alto, over 107 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among AI venture capital firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Palo Alto, United States whose own description of what they do matches “AI venture capital firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names AI venture capital firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among AI venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Palo Alto are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 980 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
AI venture capital firms by metro in the United States
- AI venture capital firms in San Francisco329
- AI venture capital firms in New York269
- AI venture capital firms in Los Angeles73
- AI venture capital firms in Menlo Park68
- AI venture capital firms in Boston67
- AI venture capital firms in Chicago63
- AI venture capital firms in Austin40
- AI venture capital firms in Dallas36
- AI venture capital firms in Miami36
- AI venture capital firms in Seattle30
- AI venture capital firms in Cambridge25
- AI venture capital firms in Houston25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names AI venture capital firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many AI venture capital firms are there based in Palo Alto, United States?
RevenueBase identified 107 AI venture capital firms headquartered in Palo Alto, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
ACCEL, headquartered in Palo Alto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most AI venture capital firms?
San Francisco leads the United States with 329 headquartered companies, followed by New York (269) and Palo Alto (107).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 980 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 107 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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