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Top 25 Early stage funding platforms based in the United States

Name: Early stage funding platforms based in the United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 1,139 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,139 early stage funding platforms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 13,975 professional contacts across them, including 3,699 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.

This list covers early stage funding platforms 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

1,139Companies

13,975Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest early stage funding platforms based in the United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,139 early stage funding platforms 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 early stage funding platforms: 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	Hustle Fund	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	711 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	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
3	Angellist	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	441 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate the rate of innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	Bessemer Venture Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	402 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Alchemist Accelerator	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	321 contacts →
	Partial 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 28, 2026
6	NEW Enterprise Associates NEA	Partial evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	277 contacts →
	Partial 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 28, 2026
7	GV Google Ventures	Strong evidence	San Francisco Bay, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	276 contacts →
	Strong 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
8	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
9	Battery Ventures	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	211 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Battery invests in potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Kleiner Perkins	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	205 contacts →
	Indirect 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
11	DFJ	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	205 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	Goahead Ventures	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	204 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “GoAhead Ventures is a Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley managing over $250M in AUM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	First Round Capital	Partial evidence	San Francisco, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	199 contacts →
	Partial 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
14	FF Venture Capital	Strong evidence	New York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	169 contacts →
	Strong evidence “ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is focused on investing in early-stage technology and technology-enabled companies, and has been since 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	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
16	Nexus Venture Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	116 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that supports extraordinary founders in building product-first companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Greylock Partners	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	111 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Greylock was founded in 1965, one of the few venture firms that predates Silicon Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	FA Technology Ventures	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	109 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “FA Technology Ventures is an independent, established venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Canaan	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	104 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Dell Technologies Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	102 contacts →
	Strong evidence “DTC invests in determined early-stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for the enterprise, connecting them to the capital, expertise, and customers they…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Band Of Angels	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	97 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Redpoint	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	93 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Since Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	NFX	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	87 contacts →
	Partial evidence “NFX is a venture firm exclusively focused on pre-seed & seed stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Everywhere Ventures	Indirect evidence	New York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	86 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Madrona	Strong evidence	Seattle, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	84 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders.” 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: early stage funding platforms. 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 early stage funding platforms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of early stage funding platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name early stage funding platforms. 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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Early stage funding platforms based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

26.5%Verified-email coverage

12.3Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

15.5%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

900

11-50

204

51-200

201-500

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 1,139 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 early stage funding platforms, 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 “early stage funding platforms”. 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 early stage funding platforms), 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 early stage funding platforms, 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, 3,699 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.

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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 early stage funding platforms, 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 early stage funding platforms are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 1,139 early stage funding platforms 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?

Hustle Fund, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most early stage funding platforms?

San Francisco leads with 176 headquartered companies, followed by New York (148) and Palo Alto (50).

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 3,699 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,139 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.