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Top 25 Early stage funding platforms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,001 early stage funding platforms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 35,637 professional contacts across them, including 8,488 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers early stage funding platforms 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 early stage funding platforms 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 early stage funding platforms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,554 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 2 | 899 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity financing provided by investors to early-stage, high-potential, and high-risk startups or growing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 711 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 571 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Investissez aux côtés d’Anthony Bourbon Dans les startups de demain À partir de 500€ par projet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 501 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 441 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate the rate of innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 9 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “New Enterprise Associates, Inc.(NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 12 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mumbai Angels is India's Premier Private Investment Platform for early-stage venture investments, headquartered in Mumbai and is at the forefront of building this asset class.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Battery invests in potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 16 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 17 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 18 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 19 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “wadiz is the largest crowdfunding platform in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is focused on investing in early-stage technology and technology-enabled companies, and has been since 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BridgeFund is een platform voor ondernemers, dat vraag en aanbod van geld op een slimme manier bij elkaar brengt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Crowdcube, we believe in the power of funding with impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It takes more than capital to build real-world, cutting-edge technologies and companies that last.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that supports extraordinary founders in building product-first companies.” 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: early stage funding platforms. 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 early stage funding platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early stage funding platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name early stage funding platforms. 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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Early stage funding platforms 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 early stage funding platforms, 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 early stage funding platforms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “early stage funding platforms”. 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 early stage funding platforms), 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 early stage funding platforms, 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, 8,488 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.
Early stage funding platforms by location
34 lists · largest firstEvery Early stage funding platforms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Early stage funding platforms based in the United States1,139
- Early stage funding platforms based in India388
- Early stage funding platforms based in the United Kingdom264
- Early stage funding platforms based in Germany131
- Early stage funding platforms based in Canada84
- Early stage funding platforms based in France83
- Early stage funding platforms based in the Netherlands79
- Early stage funding platforms based in Spain64
- Early stage funding platforms based in Israel54
- Early stage funding platforms based in Australia52
- Early stage funding platforms based in Brazil45
- Early stage funding platforms based in Sweden38
- Early stage funding platforms based in Poland32
- Early stage funding platforms based in Türkiye32
- Early stage funding platforms based in Switzerland31
Cities
- Early stage funding platforms based in London, United Kingdom212
- Early stage funding platforms based in San Francisco, United States176
- Early stage funding platforms based in New York, United States148
- Early stage funding platforms based in Mumbai, India73
- Early stage funding platforms based in Paris, France54
- Early stage funding platforms based in Palo Alto, United States50
- Early stage funding platforms based in Berlin, Germany47
- Early stage funding platforms based in Bangalore, India36
- Early stage funding platforms based in Los Angeles, United States35
- Early stage funding platforms based in Chicago, United States34
- Early stage funding platforms based in Bengaluru, India32
- Early stage funding platforms based in Menlo Park, United States32
- Early stage funding platforms based in Toronto, Canada32
- Early stage funding platforms based in Austin, United States31
- Early stage funding platforms based in Amsterdam, Netherlands30
- Early stage funding platforms based in Boston, United States30
- Early stage funding platforms based in Stockholm, Sweden29
- Early stage funding platforms based in Tel Aviv, Israel28
- Early stage funding platforms based in Miami, 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 early stage funding platforms, 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 early stage funding platforms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,001 early stage funding platforms 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?
Antler, headquartered in Stockholm, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most early stage funding platforms?
The United States leads with 1,139 companies, followed by India (388) and the United Kingdom (264). Every early stage funding platforms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most early stage funding platforms?
London leads with 213 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (176) and New York (148).
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 8,488 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,001 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.