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Top 25 Pre-seed venture capital firms worldwide

RevenueBase identified 5,761 company matches for pre-seed venture capital firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 54,008 professional contacts across them, including 13,277 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and San Francisco the largest hub.

This list covers company matches for pre-seed venture capital firms 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 29, 2026. Country and city lists for pre-seed venture capital firms 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.

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The 25 largest pre-seed venture capital firms worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 5,761 company matches for pre-seed venture capital firms worldwide, ordered by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase, largest first. Recorded Sep 29, 2026. The RevenueBase SmartSearch column shows Exact match membership in this saved search. Click a contact count to view that company's people. Totals use company locations recorded by RevenueBase; the displayed preview is a smaller selection.
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1Exact matchSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a3,283 contacts →

Exact match

“Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
2Exact matchSingapore, GermanyHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a1,554 contacts →

Exact match

“Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
3Exact matchPalo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a1,246 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
4Exact matchPalo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a981 contacts →

Exact match

“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.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
5Exact matchMenlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026201-500932 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
6Exact matchLondon, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a906 contacts →

Exact match

“Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
7Exact matchHyderabad, IndiaHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a899 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 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
8Exact matchSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a711 contacts →

Exact match

“Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders.”

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9Exact matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 20261,001-5,000610 contacts →

Exact match

“LvlUp Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in and accelerating early-stage & late-stage startups.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
10Exact matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 202651-200545 contacts →

Exact match

“Primary is the world's largest early stage VC firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees.”

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11Exact matchSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026201-500402 contacts →

Exact match

“Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.”

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12Exact matchMenlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 202651-200388 contacts →

Exact match

“Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.”

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13Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a351 contacts →

Exact match

“Loyal is a venture fund designed to reduce the risk and illiquidity of the asset class.”

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14Exact matchSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a321 contacts →

Exact match

“The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers).”

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15Exact matchMenlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 202651-200277 contacts →

Exact match

“New Enterprise Associates, Inc.(NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and…”

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16Exact matchSan Francisco Bay, MA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 202651-200276 contacts →

Exact match

“GV supports innovative founders across multiple stages and sectors, from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier…”

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17Exact matchSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a247 contacts →

Exact match

“NextGen Venture Partners works with over 1,800 Venture Partners to invest $1 million in seed stage companies and $2 million to $10 million in companies with more than $10 million…”

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18Exact matchCambridge, MA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a213 contacts →

Exact match

“Founded in 1987, Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.”

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19Exact matchMenlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a205 contacts →

Exact match

“For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history.”

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20Exact matchMenlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 202651-200205 contacts →

Exact match

“DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.”

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21Exact matchMenlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a204 contacts →

Exact match

“GoAhead Ventures is a Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley managing over $250M in AUM.”

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22Exact matchSan Francisco, PA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a199 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…”

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23Exact matchSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 202651-200173 contacts →

Exact match

“BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.”

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24Exact matchNew York, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 2026n/a169 contacts →

Exact match

“ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is focused on investing in early-stage technology and technology-enabled companies, and has been since 2008.”

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25Exact matchSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 29, 202651-200166 contacts →

Exact match

“Headline is a venture capital firm with teams on the ground in 8 cities around the world.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 29, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase

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Pre-seed venture capital firms worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 29, 2026
24.6%Verified-email coverage
9.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
5.0%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco
Sep 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
4,517
11-50
1,038
51-200
148
201-500
32
501-1,000
9
1,001-5,000
8
10001+
4

Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.

How this list was built

The recorded descriptions help you assess these company matches. Check a company’s website for its current services and locations.

Source
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 venture capital firms are linked below.
What qualifies
Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “pre-seed venture capital firms” 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 13,277 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.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Record context
Company records and descriptions can change. Check the company's website for its current services and locations.

Pre-seed venture capital firms by location

48 lists · largest first

Every Pre-seed venture capital firms 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 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 venture capital firms”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.

How many pre-seed venture capital firms are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 5,761 company matches for pre-seed venture capital firms 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 venture capital firms?

The United States leads with 1,936 companies, followed by India (425) and the United Kingdom (286). Every pre-seed venture capital firms list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most pre-seed venture capital firms?

San Francisco leads with 290 company records, followed by New York (247) and London (228).

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 13,277 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 5,761 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 29, 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.