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Top 25 Seed-stage venture capital funds worldwide
RevenueBase identified 8,085 seed-stage venture capital funds worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 81,400 professional contacts across them, including 17,539 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and San Francisco the largest hub.
This list covers seed-stage venture capital funds 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 funds follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest seed-stage venture capital funds worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,554 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 711 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 501 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 388 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: seed-stage venture capital funds. 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 funds.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of seed-stage venture capital funds, 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 funds. 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 funds worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
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 funds, 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 funds are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “seed-stage venture capital funds”. 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 funds), 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 funds, 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, 17,539 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 funds by location
65 lists · largest firstEvery Seed-stage venture capital funds list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in the United States2,359
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in India714
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in the United Kingdom400
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Germany256
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Canada221
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in France152
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Australia140
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Brazil128
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Israel113
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in the Netherlands111
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Spain110
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in the United Arab Emirates87
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Sweden86
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Italy75
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Switzerland64
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Türkiye63
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in South Korea57
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Denmark49
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Saudi Arabia49
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in South Africa48
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Norway41
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Poland41
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Mexico39
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Malaysia37
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Finland36
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Belgium35
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Hong Kong35
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Japan32
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Austria30
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Egypt27
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Portugal26
Cities
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in New York, United States308
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in San Francisco, United States303
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in London, United Kingdom297
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Bangalore, India122
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Mumbai, India111
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Palo Alto, United States99
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Paris, France86
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Los Angeles, United States82
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Toronto, Canada82
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Berlin, Germany71
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Chicago, United States64
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Boston, United States61
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates61
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Austin, United States60
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Sao Paulo, Brazil58
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Gurgaon, India52
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Menlo Park, United States51
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Sydney, Australia50
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Miami, United States49
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in New Delhi, India47
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Tel Aviv, Israel47
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Amsterdam, Netherlands44
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Stockholm, Sweden42
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Barcelona, Spain37
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Hyderabad, India37
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia36
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Houston, United States35
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Madrid, Spain35
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Istanbul, Türkiye34
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Vancouver, Canada34
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Dallas, United States29
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Cambridge, United States27
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in San Diego, United States27
- Seed-stage venture capital funds based in Atlanta, United States26
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 funds, 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 funds are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 8,085 seed-stage venture capital funds 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 funds?
The United States leads with 2,359 companies, followed by India (714) and the United Kingdom (400). Every seed-stage venture capital funds list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most seed-stage venture capital funds?
San Francisco leads with 303 headquartered companies, followed by London (299) and New York (281).
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 17,539 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 8,085 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 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.