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Top 25 Early stage venture capital companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 3,313 early stage venture capital companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 46,466 professional contacts across them, including 11,493 with verified work emails and 16,071 with mobile numbers. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers early stage venture capital 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 1, 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 venture capital companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,712 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 916 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 568 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 537 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 406 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 386 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DMZ is a tech incubator and global startup ecosystem that helps founders build high-impact ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atomic is the venture studio that pioneered the model of starting companies by pairing founders with the best ideas, teams, and resources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SOSV is the most active deep tech venture capital firm globally, investing at pre-seed (or at startup inception) supporting visionary founders intent on making a profound impact…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Like you, we are undaunted on the path to extraordinary outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Greycroft is a seed-to-growth venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs who are striving to build category-defining companies across intelligent consumer and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family in 1969, Venrock partners with entrepreneurs to build some of the world’s most disruptive, successful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Loeb.nyc is a venture collective that increases a startup's odds for success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cie is a venture studio that serves as an innovation lab and accelerator for bold entrepreneurs who want to transform disruptive ideas into thriving ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We work with entrepreneurs to refine ideas, attract talent, access capital, and accelerate growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rule1 Ventures partners with founders to build, scale, and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HPA is a leading early-stage investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BDev Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 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 venture capital 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 venture capital companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early stage venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 1, 2026Companies by employee count
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 venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital 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, 11,493 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 1, 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 venture capital companies by metro
- Early stage venture capital companies in San Francisco409
- Early stage venture capital companies in New York396
- Early stage venture capital companies in Palo Alto141
- Early stage venture capital companies in Los Angeles108
- Early stage venture capital companies in Boston105
- Early stage venture capital companies in Chicago96
- Early stage venture capital companies in Austin78
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 venture capital 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 venture capital companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 3,313 early stage venture capital 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?
Techstars, headquartered in New York City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most early stage venture capital companies?
San Francisco leads with 409 headquartered companies, followed by New York (396) and Palo Alto (141).
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 11,493 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,313 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 1, 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.
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