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Top 25 Pre-seed funding sources worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,423 company matches for pre-seed funding sources worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 23,713 professional contacts across them, including 4,206 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers company matches for pre-seed funding sources worldwide, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for pre-seed funding sources follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, 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 pre-seed funding sources worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,283 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 2 | 1,554 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 3 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 4 | 899 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “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.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 5 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 6 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 7 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 8 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “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…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 9 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 10 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an internationally renowned venture capital fund.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 11 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 12 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Blume Ventures is an early-stage India-focused venture fund that backs startups with both funding and active mentoring.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 13 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Index Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs – those with unique insight who are intrinsically driven to make their vision a reality.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 14 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Greylock was founded in 1965, one of the few venture firms that predates Silicon Valley.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 15 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “FA Technology Ventures is an independent, established venture capital firm.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 16 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “IAN Group is the country’s single largest platform for seed and early-stage investment platform with IAN Angel Network, BioAngels and IAN Fund I and IAN Alpha Fund enabling…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 17 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “DTC invests in determined early-stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for the enterprise, connecting them to the capital, expertise, and customers they…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 18 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 19 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Since Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 20 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Avec près de 200 membres investisseurs actifs, Paris Business Angels (PBA) est un leader en France du financement des start-ups en phase d'amorçage.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 21 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 22 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 23 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Venture Capital firm helping founders build the next generation of world class companies.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 24 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 25 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Bangladesh Angels is the country’s first angel investing platform, founded with a mission to elevate the country’s startup entrepreneurs to the highest level.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
RevenueBase SmartSearch
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- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for pre-seed funding sources are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “pre-seed funding sources” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
- RevenueBase SmartSearch
- Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
- Public preview
- The public preview omits records without a verified work email. Dataset totals and geographic summaries describe the full matched records before these preview filters.
- Match quality
- RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
- 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 displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 4,206 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
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Pre-seed funding sources by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Pre-seed funding sources list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United States641
- Pre-seed funding sources based in India268
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United Kingdom120
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Germany94
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Canada68
- Pre-seed funding sources based in France62
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Brazil40
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Spain39
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Australia38
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Israel35
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the Netherlands34
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United Arab Emirates27
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?
RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “pre-seed funding sources”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.
How many pre-seed funding sources are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,423 company matches for pre-seed funding sources worldwide as of September 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.
What is the largest company on this list?
Y Combinator tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.
Which country has the most pre-seed funding sources?
The United States leads with 641 companies, followed by India (268) and the United Kingdom (120). Every pre-seed funding sources list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most pre-seed funding sources?
London leads with 89 company records, followed by San Francisco (77) and New York (72).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 4,206 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 2,423 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 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 SmartSearch, 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.
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Describe the businesses you want in your own words. RevenueBase SmartSearch matches company descriptions by meaning.
RevenueBase records 2,423 matching company records for pre-seed funding sources worldwide, with 23,713 tracked contacts and 4,206 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
RevenueBase compiles business descriptions for niche-company discovery; each row shows a recorded excerpt where available. Adapt this search to find the companies and contacts you want.
Top 25 pre-seed funding sources worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Y Combinatorycombinator.comHQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | San Francisco, CA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 3,283 contacts → |
“Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 |  Antlerantler.coHQ: Singapore, GermanyReported employees: Not recorded | Singapore, Germany | Not recorded | Exact match | 1,554 contacts → |
“Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 |  Entrepreneurs Firstjoinef.comHQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: Not recorded | London, United Kingdom | Not recorded | Exact match | 906 contacts → |
“Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 |  Trigeo Technologies PVT LTDvasr.comHQ: Hyderabad, IndiaReported employees: Not recorded | Hyderabad, India | Not recorded | Exact match | 899 contacts → |
“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.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 |  Bessemer Venture Partnersbvp.comHQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 402 contacts → |
“Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 |  ODFjoinodf.comHQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | San Francisco, CA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 258 contacts → |
“Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 |  DFJdfj.comHQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | Menlo Park, CA, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 205 contacts → |
“DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 |  First Round Capitalfirstround.comHQ: San Francisco, PA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | San Francisco, PA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 199 contacts → |
“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…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 |  Pear VCpear.vcHQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | Menlo Park, CA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 157 contacts → |
“We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 |  JVPjvpvc.comHQ: Jerusalem, IsraelReported employees: 11-50 | Jerusalem, Israel | 11-50 | Exact match | 114 contacts → |
“Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an internationally renowned venture capital fund.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 |  Entrepreneurs Roundtable Acceleratoreranyc.comHQ: NY, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | NY, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 114 contacts → |
“Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 |  Blume Venturesblume.vcHQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | Mumbai, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 113 contacts → |
“Blume Ventures is an early-stage India-focused venture fund that backs startups with both funding and active mentoring.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 |  Index Venturesindexventures.comHQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 51-200 | London, United Kingdom | 51-200 | Exact match | 112 contacts → |
“Index Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs – those with unique insight who are intrinsically driven to make their vision a reality.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 |  Greylock Partnersgreylock.comHQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | Menlo Park, CA, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 111 contacts → |
“Greylock was founded in 1965, one of the few venture firms that predates Silicon Valley.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 |  FA Technology Venturesfatechventures.comHQ: Boston, MA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | Boston, MA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 109 contacts → |
“FA Technology Ventures is an independent, established venture capital firm.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 |  IAN Groupiangroup.vcHQ: New Delhi, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | New Delhi, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 108 contacts → |
“IAN Group is the country’s single largest platform for seed and early-stage investment platform with IAN Angel Network, BioAngels and IAN Fund I and IAN Alpha Fund enabling…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 |  Dell Technologies Capitaldelltechnologiescapital.comHQ: Palo Alto, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Palo Alto, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 102 contacts → |
“DTC invests in determined early-stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for the enterprise, connecting them to the capital, expertise, and customers they…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 |  Band Of Angelsbandangels.comHQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 97 contacts → |
“The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 |  Redpointredpoint.comHQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 93 contacts → |
“Since Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 |  Paris Business Angelsparisbusinessangels.comHQ: Paris, FranceReported employees: Not recorded | Paris, France | Not recorded | Exact match | 88 contacts → |
“Avec près de 200 membres investisseurs actifs, Paris Business Angels (PBA) est un leader en France du financement des start-ups en phase d'amorçage.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 |  Everywhere Ventureseverywhere.vcHQ: New York, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | New York, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 86 contacts → |
“Global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 |  Madronamadrona.comHQ: Seattle, WA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Seattle, WA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 84 contacts → |
“Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 |  Drive Capitaldrivecapital.comHQ: Columbus, OH, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Columbus, OH, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 81 contacts → |
“Venture Capital firm helping founders build the next generation of world class companies.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 |  Forum Venturesforumvc.comHQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | New York, NY, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 81 contacts → |
“Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | Bangladesh Angelsbdangels.co HQ: Dhaka, BangladeshReported employees: 11-50 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 11-50 | Exact match | 76 contacts → |
“Bangladesh Angels is the country’s first angel investing platform, founded with a mission to elevate the country’s startup entrepreneurs to the highest level.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Pre-seed funding sources: dataset insights
September 20, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
2,422 records in the displayed employee bands.
1 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 2,423 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Pre-seed funding sources by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Pre-seed funding sources list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United States641
- Pre-seed funding sources based in India268
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United Kingdom120
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Germany94
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Canada68
- Pre-seed funding sources based in France62
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Brazil40
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Spain39
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Australia38
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Israel35
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the Netherlands34
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United Arab Emirates27
Cities
Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for pre-seed funding sources?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many pre-seed funding sources did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 2,423 matching company records, 23,713 tracked contacts and 4,206 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
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Select a company's contact count to open its filtered contacts in RevenueBase. Free signup is required and includes 500 credits and limited free results. Verified emails, direct dials and mobile numbers depend on available coverage.
How current is this list?
Snapshot: September 20, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 pre-seed funding sources worldwide. Snapshot: September 20, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/pre-seed-funding-sources.
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RevenueBase records 2,423 matching company records for pre-seed funding sources worldwide, with 23,713 tracked contacts and 4,206 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
RevenueBase compiles business descriptions for niche-company discovery; each row shows a recorded excerpt where available. Adapt this search to find the companies and contacts you want.
Top 25 pre-seed funding sources worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Y Combinatorycombinator.com HQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | San Francisco, CA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 3,283 contacts → |
“Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 | Antlerantler.co HQ: Singapore, GermanyReported employees: Not recorded | Singapore, Germany | Not recorded | Exact match | 1,554 contacts → |
“Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 | Entrepreneurs Firstjoinef.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: Not recorded | London, United Kingdom | Not recorded | Exact match | 906 contacts → |
“Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 | Trigeo Technologies PVT LTDvasr.com HQ: Hyderabad, IndiaReported employees: Not recorded | Hyderabad, India | Not recorded | Exact match | 899 contacts → |
“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.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 | Bessemer Venture Partnersbvp.com HQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 402 contacts → |
“Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 | ODFjoinodf.com HQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | San Francisco, CA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 258 contacts → |
“Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 | DFJdfj.com HQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | Menlo Park, CA, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 205 contacts → |
“DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 | First Round Capitalfirstround.com HQ: San Francisco, PA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | San Francisco, PA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 199 contacts → |
“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…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 | Pear VCpear.vc HQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | Menlo Park, CA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 157 contacts → |
“We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 | JVPjvpvc.com HQ: Jerusalem, IsraelReported employees: 11-50 | Jerusalem, Israel | 11-50 | Exact match | 114 contacts → |
“Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an internationally renowned venture capital fund.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 | Entrepreneurs Roundtable Acceleratoreranyc.com HQ: NY, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | NY, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 114 contacts → |
“Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 | Blume Venturesblume.vc HQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | Mumbai, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 113 contacts → |
“Blume Ventures is an early-stage India-focused venture fund that backs startups with both funding and active mentoring.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | Index Venturesindexventures.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 51-200 | London, United Kingdom | 51-200 | Exact match | 112 contacts → |
“Index Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs – those with unique insight who are intrinsically driven to make their vision a reality.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 | Greylock Partnersgreylock.com HQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | Menlo Park, CA, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 111 contacts → |
“Greylock was founded in 1965, one of the few venture firms that predates Silicon Valley.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 | FA Technology Venturesfatechventures.com HQ: Boston, MA, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | Boston, MA, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 109 contacts → |
“FA Technology Ventures is an independent, established venture capital firm.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 | IAN Groupiangroup.vc HQ: New Delhi, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | New Delhi, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 108 contacts → |
“IAN Group is the country’s single largest platform for seed and early-stage investment platform with IAN Angel Network, BioAngels and IAN Fund I and IAN Alpha Fund enabling…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 | Dell Technologies Capitaldelltechnologiescapital.com HQ: Palo Alto, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Palo Alto, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 102 contacts → |
“DTC invests in determined early-stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for the enterprise, connecting them to the capital, expertise, and customers they…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 | Band Of Angelsbandangels.com HQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 97 contacts → |
“The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 | Redpointredpoint.com HQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 93 contacts → |
“Since Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 | Paris Business Angelsparisbusinessangels.com HQ: Paris, FranceReported employees: Not recorded | Paris, France | Not recorded | Exact match | 88 contacts → |
“Avec près de 200 membres investisseurs actifs, Paris Business Angels (PBA) est un leader en France du financement des start-ups en phase d'amorçage.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 | Everywhere Ventureseverywhere.vc HQ: New York, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | New York, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 86 contacts → |
“Global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 | Madronamadrona.com HQ: Seattle, WA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Seattle, WA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 84 contacts → |
“Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 | Drive Capitaldrivecapital.com HQ: Columbus, OH, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Columbus, OH, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 81 contacts → |
“Venture Capital firm helping founders build the next generation of world class companies.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 | Forum Venturesforumvc.com HQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: 51-200 | New York, NY, United States | 51-200 | Exact match | 81 contacts → |
“Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | Bangladesh Angelsbdangels.co HQ: Dhaka, BangladeshReported employees: 11-50 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 11-50 | Exact match | 76 contacts → |
“Bangladesh Angels is the country’s first angel investing platform, founded with a mission to elevate the country’s startup entrepreneurs to the highest level.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Pre-seed funding sources: dataset insights
September 20, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
2,422 records in the displayed employee bands.
1 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 2,423 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Pre-seed funding sources by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Pre-seed funding sources list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United States641
- Pre-seed funding sources based in India268
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United Kingdom120
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Germany94
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Canada68
- Pre-seed funding sources based in France62
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Brazil40
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Spain39
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Australia38
- Pre-seed funding sources based in Israel35
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the Netherlands34
- Pre-seed funding sources based in the United Arab Emirates27
Cities
Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for pre-seed funding sources?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many pre-seed funding sources did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 2,423 matching company records, 23,713 tracked contacts and 4,206 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
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How current is this list?
Snapshot: September 20, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 pre-seed funding sources worldwide. Snapshot: September 20, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/pre-seed-funding-sources.
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