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Top 25 Early stage software investors based in Palo Alto, United States

Name: Early stage software investors based in Palo Alto, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 12, 2026 116 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 116 early stage software investors headquartered in Palo Alto, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,764 professional contacts across them, including 860 with verified work emails and 1,065 with mobile numbers. San Francisco is the largest hub.

This list covers early stage software investors headquartered in Palo Alto, 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 12, 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 12, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

116Companies

5,764Contacts tracked

860Verified emails

1,065Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest early stage software investors based in Palo Alto, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 116 early stage software investors based in Palo Alto, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 12, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early stage software investors: 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	Founder Institute	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	n/a	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 12, 2026
2	ACCEL	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	n/a	981 contacts →
	Indirect 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 12, 2026
3	Sutter Hill Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	133 contacts →
	Indirect 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 12, 2026
4	Dell Technologies Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 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 12, 2026
5	Foundation Capital	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	79 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Foundation Capital was founded in 1995.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
6	Fusion Fund	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	n/a	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fusion Fund invests in promising start-up companies who have technology barriers in their business models.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
7	Labrador Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	n/a	46 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1989, Labrador Ventures is one of the oldest, premier seed stage funds in Silicon Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
8	Acrew Capital	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Defining the future of venture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
9	Translink Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Translink Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto with $1B under management, and investing out of its fifth fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
10	Cowboy Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	n/a	31 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Cowboy Ventures is a seed-focused venture capital firm dedicated to supporting extraordinary founders building legendary technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
11	Storm Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are an early-stage B2B focused venture firm that specializes in building enterprise leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
12	General Inception	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “General Inception brings a new way to partner with inventors to ignite innovation and nurture transformational companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
13	NEC X INC	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “NEC X, situated in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a venture studio dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs striving to develop products in high demand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
14	XFUND	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	1-10	26 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Xfund is the early-stage venture capital firm built to back entrepreneurs who think laterally and experiment across disciplines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
15	Trident Capital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Trident Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm investing in Software, Services and Internet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
16	Meritech Capital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Meritech has operated since on a few simple beliefs: our companies should be center stage, enduring brands are the endgame, and the best tech companies don't just win – they win…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
17	Artiman Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Artiman is an early stage sector agnostic venture fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Bangalore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
18	OVO Fund	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	1-10	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “OVO Fund is a pre-seed venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
19	SAAMA	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	1-10	19 contacts →
	Strong evidence “With an AUM of $350M and a presence across India and the US, Saama is an early-stage investor with 20+ years of experience across diverse sectors such as consumer tech, d2c…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
20	SAV Scale Asia Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Strong evidence “SAV(Scale Asia Ventures) is a Palo Alto based multi-stage venture fund focused on Enterprise Software, Data-driven Life Sciences, and AI-powered Vertical Industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
21	Graphene Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Venture capital firm in Palo Alto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
22	Clear Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a Silicon Valley venture capital rm purpose-built to help startup teams win in frontier technology and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
23	Blitzscaling Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Blitzscaling Ventures invests alongside the world's top VCs to help rapidly-scaling companies in winner-take-most markets become global leaders by providing in-depth scaling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
24	NTTVC	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “NTTVC is an independent venture capital firm formed in collaboration with NTT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026
25	Cervin Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 12, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Cervin is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on building enduring enterprise-technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 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 software 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 software investors.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of early stage software 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 software 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 software investors based in Palo Alto, United States at a glance

As of Sep 12, 2026

14.9%Verified-email coverage

18.5%Mobile-number coverage

49.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

200.9%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco

Sep 12, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked

Email last verified

Median 15.0d

7190–30

13031–60

561–90

390–180

3180+

Company record updated

Median 65.0d

00–30

2,70731–60

2,03461–90

73090–180

293180+

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 software 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 Palo Alto, United States whose own description of what they do matches “early stage software 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 software 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 software investors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Palo Alto 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, 860 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 12, 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 software investors by metro in the United States

Early stage software investors in San Francisco233
Early stage software investors in New York231
Early stage software investors in Palo Alto75
Early stage software investors in Los Angeles65
Early stage software investors in Boston62
Early stage software investors in Austin52
Early stage software investors in Chicago52

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 software 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 software investors are there based in Palo Alto, United States?

RevenueBase identified 116 early stage software investors headquartered in Palo Alto, 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?

Founder Institute, headquartered in Palo Alto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most early stage software investors?

San Francisco leads with 233 headquartered companies, followed by New York (231) and Palo Alto (75).

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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 12, 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.