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Top 22 Early stage venture capital companies based in Houston, United States
RevenueBase identified 48 early stage venture capital companies headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 230 professional contacts across them, including 54 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers early stage venture capital companies headquartered in Houston, 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 14, 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 22 largest early stage venture capital companies based in Houston, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mercury fund is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in disruptive AI and blockchain startups outside Silicon Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Houston Angel Network (HAN) is the oldest angel network in Texas and one of the most active angel networks in the USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “New Climate Ventures (NCV) is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of how we produce, power, and consume.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Helping startups design, build, launch, iterate, and grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GOOSE Capital is a Houston based investment group comprised of highly successful operators and investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Small Ventures USA, LP (SMV) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded by William O.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A Houston-based and founder-led venture studio providing strategy, operational support, relationships, and capital to build impactful companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Seed Round Capital | Early-Stage Funding & Fundraising Advisory for Deep Tech Startups We help pre-seed and seed-stage founders in deep tech, hard science, applied materials, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our journey from operations and engineering to VC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Carnrite Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mitchell Companies, we invest in companies we believe in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pre-seed Investments” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morpheus helps entrepreneurs and companies develop innovative ideas and grow market share and profits, by providing business expertise, industry connections, go-to-market…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SolverX helps industrial enterprises address their operational pain points by transforming stranded, high-value university-based IP into usable solutions through a startup…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission Vertical Capital invests up to $10 million in carefully vetted Seed, but more frequently, Series-A capital rounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Leadology, a venture capital firm specializing in seed funding, mid-stage investments, and business turnaround consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “369 Growth Partners (369GP) is a global venture firm backing founders who build with purpose and precision.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Small investment company seeking to unlock potential growth and extend business life for early stage start-ups and small businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1995, AmeriFinancial is a private investment, venture capital and advisory firm that has specialized exclusively in early stage and emerging growth companies since…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DealBench is an early stage investor based in Houston, Texas and Montecito, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venture Capital” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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 Houston, United States at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Houston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Houston, over 48 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 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 Houston, 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 Houston 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, 54 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 14, 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 in the United States
- Early stage venture capital companies in San Francisco417
- Early stage venture capital companies in New York391
- Early stage venture capital companies in Palo Alto140
- Early stage venture capital companies in Los Angeles110
- Early stage venture capital companies in Boston103
- Early stage venture capital companies in Chicago94
- Early stage venture capital companies in Austin79
- Early stage venture capital companies in Menlo Park74
- Early stage venture capital companies in Miami60
- Early stage venture capital companies in Houston48
- Early stage venture capital companies in Atlanta43
- Early stage venture capital companies in New York City42
- Early stage venture capital companies in San Diego40
- Early stage venture capital companies in Dallas39
- Early stage venture capital companies in Cambridge38
- Early stage venture capital companies in Seattle37
- Early stage venture capital companies in Washington36
- Early stage venture capital companies in Santa Monica31
- Early stage venture capital companies in Denver27
- Early stage venture capital companies in Salt Lake City26
- Early stage venture capital companies in San Jose25
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 Houston, United States?
RevenueBase identified 48 early stage venture capital companies headquartered in Houston, 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?
Mercury Fund, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most early stage venture capital companies?
San Francisco leads with 417 headquartered companies, followed by New York (391) and Palo Alto (140).
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 54 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 48 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 14, 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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