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Top 25 Industry specific venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States

Name: Industry specific venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 173 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 173 industry specific venture capital firms headquartered in Palo Alto, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,413 professional contacts across them, including 1,178 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (558 companies); Palo Alto has 173.

This list covers industry specific venture capital firms headquartered in Palo Alto, 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 28, 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 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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5,413Contacts tracked

1,178Verified emails

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The 25 largest industry specific venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 173 industry specific venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to industry specific venture capital firms: 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	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	981 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
2	Eclipse	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	171 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Eclipse invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of companies in the physical economy, the industries that shape resilience, competitiveness, and security.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	Sutter Hill Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026
4	DCVC	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	105 contacts →
	Partial evidence “DCVC and its principals have backed brilliant people changing global-scale industries for over twenty years, helping create tens of billions of dollars of wealth for founders…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Dell Technologies Capital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	102 contacts →
	Partial 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 28, 2026
6	Foundation Capital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	79 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Foundation Capital was founded in 1995.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	Venrock	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	71 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 28, 2026
8	True Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	67 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
9	Playground Global	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Playground Global is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm investing in technical founders to transform ambitious ideas into high-impact businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Fusion Fund	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fusion Fund invests in promising start-up companies who have technology barriers in their business models.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	Labrador Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	46 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1989, Labrador Ventures is one of the oldest, premier seed stage funds in Silicon Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	WIL World Innovation LAB	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Strong evidence “World Innovation Lab (WiL) is a US & Japan-based venture capital firm with capital from governments and leading global corporations based in Japan and throughout Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Acrew Capital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Defining the future of venture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Wing Venture Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Founded in 2013, Wing Venture Capital is a venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in the AI-first technology stack.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Translink Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Translink Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto with $1B under management, and investing out of its fifth fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Amino Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Strong evidence “AMINO Capital is a venture firm based in Palo Alto, focusing on seed to growth-stage investments in data-driven technology startups that later became unicorns, such as Grail…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Cowboy Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	31 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Cowboy Ventures is a seed-focused venture capital firm dedicated to supporting extraordinary founders building legendary technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Storm Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We are an early-stage B2B focused venture firm that specializes in building enterprise leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	General Inception	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “General Inception brings a new way to partner with inventors to ignite innovation and nurture transformational companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	NEC X INC	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Partial evidence “NEC X, situated in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a venture studio dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs striving to develop products in high demand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	TAU Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	27 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “AI-first, seed-first fund in digital health, automation (cars, drones, robots) & enterprise” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Costanoa Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Costanoa exists to elevate founders building companies of consequence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	XFUND	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	26 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Xfund is the early-stage venture capital firm built to back entrepreneurs who think laterally and experiment across disciplines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Icon Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Based in Palo Alto, CA, Icon Ventures is a specialty venture capital firm focused on leading series B or C financings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Trident Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Trident Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm investing in Software, Services and Internet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: industry specific venture capital firms. 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 industry specific venture capital firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of industry specific venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name industry specific venture capital firms. 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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Industry specific venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

21.8%Verified-email coverage

31.3Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

123

11-50

51-200

201-500

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Palo Alto, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Palo Alto, over 173 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 industry specific venture capital firms, 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 Palo Alto, United States whose own description of what they do matches “industry specific venture capital firms”. 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 industry specific venture capital firms), 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 industry specific venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Palo Alto 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, 1,178 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 28, 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.

Industry specific venture capital firms by metro in the United States

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 industry specific venture capital firms, 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 industry specific venture capital firms are there based in Palo Alto, United States?

RevenueBase identified 173 industry specific venture capital firms headquartered in Palo Alto, 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 in the United States has the most industry specific venture capital firms?

New York leads the United States with 558 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (512) and Los Angeles (174). Palo Alto has 173.

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 1,178 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 173 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 28, 2026.

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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.