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Top 25 Seed stage venture capital companies worldwide

Name: Seed stage venture capital companies worldwide
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026 8,879 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 8,879 seed stage venture capital companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 86,046 professional contacts across them, including 18,829 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers seed 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 29, 2026. Country and city lists for seed 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 29, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest seed stage venture capital companies worldwide

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 8,879 seed stage venture capital companies worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to seed stage venture capital companies: 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 29, 2026	n/a	3,283 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
2	Techstars	Indirect evidence	New York City, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	1,803 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
3	Antler	Partial evidence	Singapore, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	1,554 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
4	Founder Institute	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
5	ACCEL	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
6	Andreessen Horowitz	Strong evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
7	Entrepreneurs First	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	906 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
8	Trigeo Technologies PVT LTD	Strong evidence	Hyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
9	Hustle Fund	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
10	Lvlup Ventures	Strong evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
11	Primary Venture Partners	Partial evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	545 contacts →
	Partial 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 29, 2026
12	Startupbootcamp	Partial evidence	Amsterdam, NetherlandsHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	201-500	522 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 29, 2026
13	Creative Destruction LAB	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	515 contacts →
	Strong 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 29, 2026
14	Startup Grind	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	483 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Startup Grind is the leading global startup community dedicated to fostering the growth of early-stage companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
15	Alumni Ventures	Partial evidence	Manchester, NH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	411 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 29, 2026
16	Bessemer Venture Partners	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
17	Sequoia Capital	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
18	T-Hub	Indirect evidence	Hyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
19	Stage 2 Capital	Strong evidence	United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	354 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
20	Alchemist Accelerator	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
21	NEW Enterprise Associates NEA	Strong evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
22	GV Google Ventures	Partial evidence	San Francisco Bay, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	276 contacts →
	Partial evidence “GV supports innovative founders across multiple stages and sectors, from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
23	ODF	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	258 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
24	Nextgen Venture Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	247 contacts →
	Strong evidence “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…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
25	EWOR	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	201-500	237 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: seed 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 seed stage venture capital companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of seed 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 seed 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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Seed stage venture capital companies worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 29, 2026

21.9%Verified-email coverage

9.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

3.7%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

6,577

11-50

1,867

51-200

293

201-500

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 seed 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: Every country. Country and city lists for seed stage venture capital companies are linked below.
What qualifies: Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “seed 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 seed 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 seed 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, 18,829 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 29, 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.

Seed stage venture capital companies by location

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Every Seed stage venture capital companies 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 seed 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 seed stage venture capital companies are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 8,879 seed 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?

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

Which country has the most seed stage venture capital companies?

The United States leads with 2,540 companies, followed by India (801) and the United Kingdom (444). Every seed stage venture capital companies list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most seed stage venture capital companies?

London leads with 326 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (313) and New York (295).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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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 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.