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Top 25 Early-stage technology companies based in the United States

Name: Early-stage technology companies based in the United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026 986 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 986 early-stage technology companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 13,333 professional contacts across them, including 3,750 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.

This list covers early-stage technology companies 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 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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13,333Contacts tracked

3,750Verified emails

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The 25 largest early-stage technology companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 986 early-stage technology companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early-stage technology companies: 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	ACCEL	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
2	Alchemist Accelerator	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
3	NEW Enterprise Associates NEA	Partial evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
4	GV Google Ventures	Partial evidence	San Francisco Bay, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
5	Battery Ventures	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	211 contacts →
	Partial 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 19, 2026
6	Kleiner Perkins	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
7	DFJ	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
8	Aeturnum	Strong evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	204 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Aeturnum is a global software development firm specializing in early stage technology products and companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9	First Round Capital	Partial evidence	San Francisco, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
10	FF Venture Capital	Strong evidence	New York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
11	8vc	Indirect evidence	Austin, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	n/a	160 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12	Pear VC	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	n/a	157 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13	Sutter Hill Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	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 19, 2026
14	Nexus Venture Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
15	Greylock Partners	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
16	FA Technology Ventures	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	n/a	109 contacts →
	Partial evidence “FA Technology Ventures is an independent, established venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17	Canaan	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
18	Dell Technologies Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
19	Band Of Angels	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	97 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20	Redpoint	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026
21	Altos Ventures	Partial evidence	Burlingame, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	72 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1996, Altos Ventures is a technology investment firm based in Silicon Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22	Scale Venture Partners	Indirect evidence	Foster City, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	69 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Scale backs Founders who can go the distance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23	CRV	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	69 contacts →
	Strong evidence “CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24	Riverwood Capital	Partial evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	68 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Riverwood Capital invests in high-growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25	True Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	67 contacts →
	Partial evidence “True Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that is first to believe in brilliant founders and invests in them at the earliest stages, when partnership matters most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 technology companies. 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 technology companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of early-stage technology companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name early-stage technology companies. 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 technology companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026

28.1%Verified-email coverage

13.5Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

14.0%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco

Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

761

11-50

199

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

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 986 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 technology companies, 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 technology companies”. 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 technology companies), 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 technology companies, 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, 3,750 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.

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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 technology companies, 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 technology companies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 986 early-stage technology companies 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?

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

Which city has the most early-stage technology companies?

San Francisco leads with 138 headquartered companies, followed by New York (115) and Palo Alto (47).

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 3,750 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 986 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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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.