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Top 25 Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,022 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 40,941 professional contacts across them, including 10,219 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 | 1,554 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 545 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 8 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over individuals and institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 388 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 11 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 12 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Golden Seeds is an investment firm dedicated to pursuing market returns through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Neo is a diverse mentorship community, startup accelerator, and VC fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GoAhead Ventures is a Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley managing over $250M in AUM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At 5Y Capital (formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital), when others see crazy ones, we see visionaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “How Women Invest is a venture firm, and sister entity to How Women Lead, a professional network of over women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bossa Invest is a Brazilian VC focused on seed stage technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building market-leading companies since 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Included VC is a Fellowship for individuals from diverse communities which are often overlooked or excluded, providing access, opportunity and knowledge into the world of Venture…” 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: venture capital firms for underrepresented founders. 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture capital firms for underrepresented founders. 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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Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “venture capital firms for underrepresented founders”. 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders), 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, 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, 10,219 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.
Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders by location
35 lists · largest firstEvery Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in the United States1,643
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in the United Kingdom187
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in India177
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Canada103
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Germany93
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Australia73
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Brazil67
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Israel49
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in the United Arab Emirates43
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in France42
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Sweden39
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in the Netherlands35
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Spain34
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in South Africa29
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Türkiye29
Cities
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in New York, United States253
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in San Francisco, United States221
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in London, United Kingdom138
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Los Angeles, United States82
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Palo Alto, United States64
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Boston, United States50
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Toronto, Canada49
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Austin, United States41
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Chicago, United States40
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Menlo Park, United States38
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Sao Paulo, Brazil38
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Atlanta, United States36
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Sydney, Australia33
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates31
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Paris, France31
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Miami, United States30
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Mumbai, India30
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Tel Aviv, Israel30
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Berlin, Germany27
- Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in Houston, 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,022 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders?
The United States leads with 1,643 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (187) and India (177). Every venture capital firms for underrepresented founders list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most venture capital firms for underrepresented founders?
New York leads with 225 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (221) and London (140).
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.