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Top 25 Early stage impact investors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,535 early stage impact investors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 21,239 professional contacts across them, including 5,387 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers early stage impact investors 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for early stage impact investors 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 impact investors 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 19, 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 501 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Village Capital is reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “B Capital invests globally in extraordinary founders and businesses shaping the future through technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YY Ventures is an incubation and investment Social Business that supports young founders building socially and environmentally conscious businesses in emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Rockstart is an early stage investor that empowers purpose-driven founders across three domains: Energy, AgriFood, and Emerging Technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe that innovation can change the world for good, and we’re providing the tools that empower innovators & entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We give investors access to private opportunities, help corporates and governments innovate with accelerator programs and support founders to build lasting businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Live for Good est une association qui vient en aide, depuis 8 ans, aux jeunes entrepreneur·es à impact positif développant des projets innovants au service du monde de demain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As part of the world's largest non-profit accelerator, we are like a startup MBA!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Intuitive Solutions is a social enterprise on a mission to innovate models for social good, build capacity for nonprofits, and sustain growth for greater impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UnLtd's mission is to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can transform the world in which they live.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Social Impact Hub collaborates with purpose-driven organisations to accelerate change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We Founder Circle is a global community of successful founders and strategic angels who support early-stage startups with seed funding, business development and global networking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in San Diego, CA, NuFund is one of the largest, most active and most successful early-stage investor groups over the past 20+ years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DN Capital is a global early stage and growth capital investor focused on Seed, Series A and select series B investments in fintech, SaaS, digital media, e-commerce, marketplaces…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MYSC (Merry Year Social Company) is a pioneering social innovation partner dedicated to building a fairer, more inclusive world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 2004, New Ventures uses the power of business to accelerate, finance and connect impact-driven individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LeapFrog invests in exceptional businesses in Asia and Africa to enable leaps of growth, profitability and impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nueterra Capital invests in early and growth-stage companies that are focused on changing the status quo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 impact investors. 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 impact investors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early stage impact investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name early stage impact investors. 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 impact investors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 impact investors, 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 impact investors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “early stage impact investors”. 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 impact investors), 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 impact investors, 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, 5,387 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 19, 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 impact investors by location
25 lists · largest firstEvery Early stage impact investors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Early stage impact investors based in the United States754
- Early stage impact investors based in the United Kingdom166
- Early stage impact investors based in India150
- Early stage impact investors based in Germany97
- Early stage impact investors based in France80
- Early stage impact investors based in the Netherlands73
- Early stage impact investors based in Canada55
- Early stage impact investors based in Australia48
- Early stage impact investors based in Spain45
- Early stage impact investors based in Italy41
- Early stage impact investors based in the United Arab Emirates38
- Early stage impact investors based in Brazil37
- Early stage impact investors based in Sweden37
- Early stage impact investors based in South Africa30
- Early stage impact investors based in Switzerland30
- Early stage impact investors based in Denmark27
- Early stage impact investors based in Israel26
- Early stage impact investors based in Mexico25
- Early stage impact investors based in Norway25
Cities
- Early stage impact investors based in New York, United States105
- Early stage impact investors based in San Francisco, United States91
- Early stage impact investors based in Los Angeles, United States32
- Early stage impact investors based in Palo Alto, United States29
- Early stage impact investors based in Austin, United States26
- Early stage impact investors based in Chicago, United States26
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 impact investors, 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 impact investors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,535 early stage impact investors 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 impact investors?
The United States leads with 754 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (166) and India (150). Every early stage impact investors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most early stage impact investors?
London leads with 128 headquartered companies, followed by New York (105) and San Francisco (91).
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 5,387 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,535 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 19, 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.