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Top 25 Early stage impact investors based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 91 early stage impact investors headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 839 professional contacts across them, including 279 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers early stage impact investors headquartered in San Francisco, 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 19, 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.
The 25 largest early stage impact investors based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm, affiliated to Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Garuda Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-focused firm run by operators-turned-investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We set the standard in seed stage venture capital, backing founders with grit, audacity, and a spark of rebellion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MCE Social Capital (MCE) is a nonprofit impact investing firm that provides flexible capital to enterprises committed to generating sustainable livelihoods – with a focus on women…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We invest in founders at the earliest stages building across the public sector, fintech, enterprise, climate, and tech-forgotten industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2007, Ridge Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world interacts with software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We seek leaders who seek context.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venture capital for startups reimagining trillion-dollar industries through a world positive lens.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BlueRun Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, CA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FPV Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on investing in mission-driven founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The promise of technology is to bring social mobility to life, creating better conditions for humanity as well as democratizing access to services, capital and well being.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Beneficial Returns is an impact investment manager providing long-term debt financing to social enterprises in Latin America and Southeast Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bullpen Capital invests in early-stage companies that have achieved product-market fit but are overlooked for no good reason.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on classic pre-seed and seed investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Just Business is an investment firm with a vision to redefine business practices in the global economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “New Media Ventures is the first national network of early stage investors supporting startups that create progressive political change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nava is a modern early stage investment firm, founded on more than a decade of experience in venture capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Selva Ventures, we invest in emerging brands that make their consumers’ lives better.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Renegade Partners is an early-stage venture firm investing in transformative technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is an early growth stage investor in companies contributing to environmental sustainability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Flori Ventures is a seed-stage fund investing in top entrepreneurs that are using technology to tackle two of the most impactful challenges in emerging markets: Climate change and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “7BC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm distinguished by its global network.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Axial partners with great founders and inventors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: early stage impact investors. 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 impact investors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early stage impact investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name early stage impact investors. 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 impact investors based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 91 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 impact investors, 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “early stage impact investors”. 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 impact investors), 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 impact investors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco 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, 279 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 19, 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.
Early stage impact investors by metro in the United States
- Early stage impact investors in New York105
- Early stage impact investors in San Francisco91
- Early stage impact investors in Los Angeles32
- Early stage impact investors in Palo Alto29
- Early stage impact investors in Chicago26
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 impact investors, 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 impact investors are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 91 early stage impact investors headquartered in San Francisco, 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?
Contrary, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most early stage impact investors?
New York leads with 105 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (91) and Los Angeles (32).
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 279 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 91 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 19, 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.
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