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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.

How to read this list RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 1, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
3,313Companies
46,466Contacts tracked
11,493Verified emails
16,071Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest early stage venture capital companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 3,313 early stage venture capital companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early stage venture capital 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceNew York City, NY, United Statesn/a1,712 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
2Strong evidenceMenlo Park, CA, United States201-500916 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, 2026
3Strong evidenceNew York, NY, United States1,001-5,000568 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, 2026
4Strong evidenceNew York, NY, United States51-200537 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, 2026
5Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United States51-200406 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, 2026
6Indirect evidenceMenlo Park, CA, United States51-200386 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
7Strong evidenceMenlo Park, CA, United States51-200320 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
8Strong evidenceTimonium, MD, United States51-200276 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, 2026
9Strong evidenceMenlo Park, CA, United States51-200205 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, 2026
10Strong evidenceMenlo Park, CA, United States51-200190 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
11Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United States51-200170 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
12Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United States51-200153 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, 2026
13Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United States51-200122 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, 2026
14Strong evidenceNewark, NJ, United States51-200119 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, 2026
15Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United States51-20094 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
16Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United States51-20083 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Like you, we are undaunted on the path to extraordinary outcomes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
17Strong evidenceLos Angeles, CA, United States51-20083 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, 2026
18Strong evidencePalo Alto, CA, United States51-20068 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, 2026
19Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United States201-50060 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Loeb.nyc is a venture collective that increases a startup's odds for success.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
20Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United States51-20059 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our mission is to help more people start better startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
21Partial evidenceIrvine, CA, United States51-20057 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, 2026
22Partial evidenceSomerville, MA, United States51-20057 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We work with entrepreneurs to refine ideas, attract talent, access capital, and accelerate growth.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
23Partial evidenceAtlanta, GA, United States51-20056 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Rule1 Ventures partners with founders to build, scale, and succeed.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
24Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United States51-20055 contacts →

Strong evidence

“HPA is a leading early-stage investor.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
25Strong evidenceMountain View, CA, United States51-20042 contacts →

Strong evidence

“BDev Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026

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Early stage venture capital companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 1, 2026
24.7%Verified-email coverage
34.6%Mobile-number coverage
14.0Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
12.3%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco
Sep 1, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
2,524
11-50
656
51-200
96
201-500
24
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
4
5,001-10,000
3

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
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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 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.