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Top 25 Growth stage investors based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 315 growth stage investors headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,833 professional contacts across them, including 1,851 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers growth stage investors headquartered in San Francisco, 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 20, 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 growth stage investors based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 422 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We partner with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NextGen Venture Partners works with over 1,800 Venture Partners to invest $1 million in seed stage companies and $2 million to $10 million in companies with more than $10 million…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headline is a venture capital firm with teams on the ground in 8 cities around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M12 is Microsoft’s corporate venture capital fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $10.2 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GTMfund is an early-stage VC fund focused on B2B SaaS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WI Harper Group is a pioneering venture capital firm with over three decades of experience investing in transformative companies that shape the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From seed through growth, Salesforce Ventures provides the most enterprising founders with the patient capital, coveted community, and unique access to the resources they need to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founders Fund is a venture capital firm investing in smart people solving difficult problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “https://susaventures.com/” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Village Global, early-stage capital is just the beginning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Afore Capital is a Pre-Seed VC with $300 million in AUM co-founded by Anamitra Banerji & Gaurav Jain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SV Angel (SVA) is a San Francisco-based venture fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Blumberg Capital is an early and growth stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build successful technology companies that empower individuals…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Northgate Capital, founded in manages $5bn in venture capital and private equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cota Capital is an early-stage investment firm that builds and invests in technology companies addressing “Net New” challenges in the enterprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $4.2B in assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Emergence Capital invests in people who change the way the world works.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm, affiliated to Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: growth stage 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 growth stage investors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of growth stage investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name growth stage 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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Growth stage investors based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 315 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 growth stage 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “growth stage 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 growth stage 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 growth stage investors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco 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, 1,851 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 20, 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.
Growth stage investors by metro in the United States
- Growth stage investors in New York351
- Growth stage investors in San Francisco315
- Growth stage investors in Los Angeles116
- Growth stage investors in Palo Alto89
- Growth stage investors in Boston83
- Growth stage investors in Austin75
- Growth stage investors in Chicago73
- Growth stage investors in Miami67
- Growth stage investors in Menlo Park58
- Growth stage investors in Houston51
- Growth stage investors in Dallas42
- Growth stage investors in Atlanta41
- Growth stage investors in New York City36
- Growth stage investors in Washington35
- Growth stage investors in Seattle34
- Growth stage investors in Santa Monica31
- Growth stage investors in Denver30
- Growth stage investors in San Diego30
- Growth stage investors in Cambridge27
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 growth stage 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 growth stage investors are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 315 growth stage investors headquartered in San Francisco, 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?
Y Combinator, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most growth stage investors?
New York leads with 351 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (315) and Los Angeles (116).
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 1,851 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 315 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 20, 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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