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Top 25 Early stage venture capital companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 7,813 early stage venture capital companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 86,449 professional contacts across them, including 21,026 with verified work emails and 18,311 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and San Francisco the largest hub.
This list covers early stage venture capital companies 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 1, 2026. Country and city lists for early stage venture capital companies 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 venture capital companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,712 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,539 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 916 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 890 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 568 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 537 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 506 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Startupbootcamp, we supercharge startup growth – providing capital, world-class mentorship, and direct access to investors, corporate partners, and industry experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 406 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 393 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 386 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 366 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “T-Hub is the world’s largest home for startups, supporting founders from ideation to scale through programs, partnerships, and global market access while anchoring some of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IP Group accelerates the impact of science for a better future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Norwest is a leading venture and growth equity investment firm that works side-by-side with the world’s top entrepreneurs, empowering them throughout their personal journey of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 209 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 1, 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “50 Partners is a leading startup accelerator in France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 166 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2002, Gobi has overseen US$2 billion AUM across more than 30 investment vehicles, and its team of 80+ professionals now manages a portfolio of over 400 companies from 18…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 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 venture capital companies. 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 venture capital companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early stage venture capital companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name early stage venture capital companies. 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 venture capital companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 1, 2026Companies by employee count
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 venture capital companies, 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
- 38 countries, largest first: the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, France, Brazil, Israel, Australia, Spain and 28 more. Country and city lists for early stage venture capital companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “early stage venture capital companies”. 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 venture capital companies), 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 venture capital companies, 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, 21,026 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 between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 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 venture capital companies by location
81 lists · largest firstEvery Early stage venture capital companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Early stage venture capital companies based in the United States3,313
- Early stage venture capital companies based in India849
- Early stage venture capital companies based in the United Kingdom532
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Germany369
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Canada289
- Early stage venture capital companies based in France191
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Brazil173
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Israel169
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Australia166
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Spain156
- Early stage venture capital companies based in the Netherlands149
- Early stage venture capital companies based in the United Arab Emirates121
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Sweden111
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Italy100
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Switzerland99
- Early stage venture capital companies based in South Korea76
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Türkiye70
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Denmark64
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Norway61
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Poland60
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Saudi Arabia56
- Early stage venture capital companies based in South Africa54
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Belgium48
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Japan48
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Hong Kong47
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Mexico47
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Austria40
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Czechia40
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Portugal39
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Malaysia38
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Luxembourg37
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Finland35
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Ireland34
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Egypt29
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Argentina27
- Early stage venture capital companies based in New Zealand26
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Romania25
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Vietnam25
Cities
- Early stage venture capital companies based in San Francisco, United States417
- Early stage venture capital companies based in London, United Kingdom409
- Early stage venture capital companies based in New York, United States391
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Palo Alto, United States140
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Mumbai, India132
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Toronto, Canada114
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Los Angeles, United States110
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Boston, United States103
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Paris, France103
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Berlin, Germany101
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Chicago, United States94
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Sao Paulo, Brazil81
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Austin, United States79
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Bangalore, India75
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Menlo Park, United States74
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Tel Aviv, Israel69
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Bengaluru, India68
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Sydney, Australia64
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Stockholm, Sweden62
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Miami, United States60
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Amsterdam, Netherlands55
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Barcelona, Spain53
- Early stage venture capital companies based in New Delhi, India52
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Hyderabad, India49
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Houston, United States48
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Madrid, Spain47
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Vancouver, Canada45
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Atlanta, United States43
- Early stage venture capital companies based in New York City, United States42
- Early stage venture capital companies based in San Diego, United States40
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Dallas, United States39
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Cambridge, United States38
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Seattle, United States37
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Washington, United States36
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Oslo, Norway33
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Gurgaon, India31
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Santa Monica, United States31
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg29
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Munich, Germany29
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Gurugram, India28
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Denver, United States27
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Salt Lake City, United States26
- Early stage venture capital companies based in Copenhagen, Denmark25
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 venture capital companies, 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 venture capital companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 7,813 early stage venture capital companies 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?
Techstars, headquartered in New York City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most early stage venture capital companies?
The United States leads with 3,313 companies, followed by India (849) and the United Kingdom (532). Every early stage venture capital companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most early stage venture capital companies?
San Francisco leads with 409 headquartered companies, followed by London (397) and New York (396).
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 21,026 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 7,813 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 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.