Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Diverse founder venture capital firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,308 diverse founder venture capital firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 48,501 professional contacts across them, including 11,340 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers diverse founder venture capital firms worldwide, 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 28, 2026. Country and city lists for diverse founder venture capital firms follow the table.
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 diverse founder venture capital firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,554 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 932 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 711 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 610 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LvlUp Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in and accelerating early-stage & late-stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 545 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Primary is the world's largest early stage VC firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over individuals and institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 388 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Loyal is a venture fund designed to reduce the risk and illiquidity of the asset class.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GV supports innovative founders across multiple stages and sectors, from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NextGen Venture Partners works with over 1,800 Venture Partners to invest $1 million in seed stage companies and $2 million to $10 million in companies with more than $10 million…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Golden Seeds is an investment firm dedicated to pursuing market returns through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Neo is a diverse mentorship community, startup accelerator, and VC fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1987, Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GoAhead Ventures is a Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley managing over $250M in AUM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WeInvest is a Next Generation Venture Builder that creates Early-Stage VC Funds based on a proprietary methodology to launch startups per year by leveraging a global ecosystem of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At 5Y Capital (formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital), when others see crazy ones, we see visionaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: diverse founder 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 diverse founder venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of diverse founder 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 diverse founder 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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Diverse founder venture capital firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 diverse founder 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for diverse founder venture capital firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “diverse founder 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 diverse founder 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 diverse founder venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 11,340 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 28, 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.
Diverse founder venture capital firms by location
40 lists · largest firstEvery Diverse founder venture capital firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United States1,677
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United Kingdom208
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in India196
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Canada112
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Germany87
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Brazil78
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Australia73
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Israel60
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United Arab Emirates53
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in the Netherlands49
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in France43
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Sweden39
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Spain37
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Türkiye34
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in South Africa30
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Nigeria27
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Denmark26
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Switzerland26
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Japan25
Cities
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in New York, United States226
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in San Francisco, United States222
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in London, United Kingdom150
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Los Angeles, United States83
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States69
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Toronto, Canada51
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Boston, United States46
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates41
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Menlo Park, United States40
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Miami, United States40
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Sao Paulo, Brazil40
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States39
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Tel Aviv, Israel36
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Austin, United States35
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Sydney, Australia33
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Atlanta, United States30
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in New York City, United States30
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Paris, France30
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Berlin, Germany29
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Mumbai, India29
- Diverse founder venture capital firms based in Dallas, United States25
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 diverse founder 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 diverse founder venture capital firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,308 diverse founder venture capital firms worldwide 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?
Y Combinator, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most diverse founder venture capital firms?
The United States leads with 1,677 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (208) and India (196). Every diverse founder venture capital firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most diverse founder venture capital firms?
New York leads with 226 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (222) and London (151).
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 11,340 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,308 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 28, 2026.
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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.