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Top 25 Diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United States

Name: Diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 1,677 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,677 diverse founder venture capital firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 28,825 professional contacts across them, including 6,893 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers diverse founder venture capital firms headquartered in the United States, 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 28, 2026.

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 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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28,825Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,677 diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to diverse founder venture capital firms: 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 28, 2026	n/a	3,283 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Techstars	Partial evidence	New York City, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	1,803 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	ACCEL	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026
4	Andreessen Horowitz	Strong evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026
5	Hustle Fund	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026
6	Lvlup Ventures	Strong evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026
7	Primary Venture Partners	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	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 28, 2026
8	Alumni Ventures	Strong evidence	Manchester, NH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	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 28, 2026
9	Bessemer Venture Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	402 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Sequoia Capital	Partial evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	388 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	GV Google Ventures	Partial evidence	San Francisco Bay, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026
12	Nextgen Venture Partners	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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 28, 2026
13	Golden Seeds	Indirect evidence	New York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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 28, 2026
14	NEO	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	221 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Neo is a diverse mentorship community, startup accelerator, and VC fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Highland Capital Partners	Strong evidence	Cambridge, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	213 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Founded in 1987, Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Kleiner Perkins	Partial evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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 28, 2026
17	DFJ	Strong evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	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 28, 2026
18	Goahead Ventures	Strong evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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 28, 2026
19	First Round Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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 28, 2026
20	Khosla Ventures	Partial evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	193 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Weinvest	Partial evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	186 contacts →
	Partial evidence “WeInvest is a Next Generation Venture Builder that creates Early-Stage VC Funds based on a proprietary methodology to launch startups per year by leveraging a global ecosystem of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Headline	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	166 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Headline is a venture capital firm with teams on the ground in 8 cities around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	8vc	Strong evidence	Austin, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	160 contacts →
	Strong evidence “8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Pear VC	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	157 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	HOW Women Invest	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	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 28, 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: diverse founder venture capital firms. 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 diverse founder venture capital firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of diverse founder venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name diverse founder venture capital firms. 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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Diverse founder venture capital firms based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

23.9%Verified-email coverage

17.2Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

13.5%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

1,292

11-50

322

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,677 companies.

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 diverse founder venture capital firms, 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.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “diverse founder venture capital firms”. 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 diverse founder venture capital firms), 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 diverse founder venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
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, 6,893 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 28, 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.

Diverse founder venture capital firms by metro

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 diverse founder venture capital firms, 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 diverse founder venture capital firms are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 1,677 diverse founder venture capital firms headquartered in the United States 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 city has the most diverse founder venture capital firms?

New York leads with 226 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (222) and Los Angeles (83).

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 6,893 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,677 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 28, 2026.

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About this data

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.