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Top 25 Early stage venture capital investors worldwide

Name: Early stage venture capital investors worldwide
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 11,264 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 11,264 early stage venture capital investors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 109,657 professional contacts across them, including 21,142 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers early stage venture capital 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 28, 2026. Country and city lists for early stage venture capital 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest early stage venture capital investors worldwide

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 11,264 early stage venture capital investors worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early stage venture capital investors: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Y Combinator	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	3,283 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Techstars	Indirect evidence	New York City, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	1,803 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	Antler	Strong evidence	Singapore, GermanyHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	1,554 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	Microsoft For Startups	Partial evidence	Redmond, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	10001+	1,533 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Microsoft for Startups is a digital ecosystem removing barriers to building a company with free access to technology, coaching, and support for founders in any stage of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Founder Institute	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	1,246 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Founder Institute is the World’s Largest AI-Native Company Builder, where ambitious professionals, solo founders, and first-time entrepreneurs go to turn ideas into funded…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	ACCEL	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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, 2026
7	Andreessen Horowitz	Strong evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	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, 2026
8	Entrepreneurs First	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	906 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	Trigeo Technologies PVT LTD	Strong evidence	Hyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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, 2026
10	Hustle Fund	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	711 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	Lvlup Ventures	Strong evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	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, 2026
12	Primary Venture Partners	Strong evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	545 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 28, 2026
13	Startupbootcamp	Strong evidence	Amsterdam, NetherlandsHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	522 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
14	Creative Destruction LAB	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	515 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Startup Grind	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	483 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Startup Grind is the leading global startup community dedicated to fostering the growth of early-stage companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Alumni Ventures	Strong evidence	Manchester, NH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	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, 2026
17	Bessemer Venture Partners	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	402 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	BGE	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	394 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Soutien à la création reprise d'entreprise - Accompagnement des porteurs de projets - Formation modulaire, Etude de Marché, Stratégie commerciale, business plan, Comptabilité…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Sequoia Capital	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	388 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	T-Hub	Indirect evidence	Hyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	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 28, 2026
21	Loyal VC	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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, 2026
22	Unternehmertum	Indirect evidence	Garching (munich), GermanyHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	343 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At UnternehmerTUM, visions turn into value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Alchemist Accelerator	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	321 contacts →
	Strong 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, 2026
24	Awesome INC	Indirect evidence	Lexington, KY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	279 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Based in Lexington, Kentucky, Awesome Inc: 🤝 Grows community through events, education, and entrepreneurship Throws the largest pitch competition in the region, 5 Across Helps…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	NEW Enterprise Associates NEA	Strong evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	277 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 28, 2026

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 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 venture capital investors.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of early stage venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital investors worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

19.3%Verified-email coverage

9.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

3.6%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

8,173

11-50

2,467

51-200

411

201-500

119

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

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 venture capital 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 venture capital investors are linked below.
What qualifies: Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “early stage venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital 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, 21,142 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 venture capital investors by location

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Every Early stage venture capital investors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.

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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 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 venture capital investors are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 11,264 early stage venture capital 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?

Y Combinator, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which country has the most early stage venture capital investors?

The United States leads with 2,990 companies, followed by India (1,063) and the United Kingdom (564). Every early stage venture capital investors list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most early stage venture capital investors?

London leads with 404 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (325) and New York (313).

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 21,142 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 11,264 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.