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Top 25 Life sciences venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States

Name: Life sciences venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026 60 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 60 life sciences venture capital firms headquartered in Palo Alto, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,007 professional contacts across them, including 381 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (216 companies); Palo Alto has 60.

This list covers life sciences 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 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 14, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest life sciences venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 60 life sciences venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to life sciences 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	Sutter Hill Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
2	Dell Technologies Capital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
3	Venrock	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
4	True Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
5	Fusion Fund	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
6	Labrador Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
7	Acrew Capital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Defining the future of venture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8	Samsara Biocapital	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	34 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At Samsara BioCapital, we partner with scientists and entrepreneurs to translate cutting-edge science into transformative medicines for patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9	General Inception	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
10	TAU Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
11	XFUND	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 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 14, 2026
12	Artiman Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Artiman is an early stage sector agnostic venture fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Bangalore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
13	Dcvc BIO	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Strong evidence “DCVC Bio invests in early stage deep tech startups in the life sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
14	Boutique Venture Partners	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Boutique Venture Partners focuses on emerging healthcare and life science solutions to make significant impact at scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15	Z5 Capital	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a seed stage VC fund based in Palo Alto, CA investing in visionary entrepreneurs building enterprise startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16	Lucas Venture Group	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Lucas Venture Group (LVG) is a third-generation, early-stage venture firm rooted in six decades of Silicon Valley investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17	Conductive Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Conductive Ventures invests in expansion stage companies with a focus on software, hardware, and technology enabled services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18	Grit Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Grit Ventures is an early stage deep tech investor building a better world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19	Allegis Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Allegis Capital is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in all types of technology that moves the world forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20	Shangbay Capital	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Strong evidence “ShangBay Capital is a venture capital company that brings both U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21	Candou Ventures	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Candou Ventures is an early stage investment firm focused on funding and supporting entrepreneurs with novel and defensible ideas and help them raise money from tier 1 venture…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22	Wealthing VC Fund	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a VC Fund investing in rapidly growing companies with diverse teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
23	Av8 Ventures	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Strong evidence “AV8 Ventures is a $360mil early-stage Palo Alto based venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
24	Streamlined Ventures	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a seed stage investment firm rooted in the belief that the founders of companies are the true heroes of entrepreneurial value creation in our society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
25	Acvc Partners	Partial evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ACVC Partners is a deep tech Venture Fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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: life sciences 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 life sciences venture capital firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of life sciences 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 life sciences 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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Life sciences venture capital firms based in Palo Alto, United States at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026

37.8%Verified-email coverage

16.8Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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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 60 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 life sciences 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 “life sciences 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 life sciences 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 life sciences 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, 381 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.

Life sciences 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 life sciences 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 life sciences venture capital firms are there based in Palo Alto, United States?

RevenueBase identified 60 life sciences 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?

Sutter Hill Ventures, headquartered in Palo Alto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most life sciences venture capital firms?

New York leads the United States with 216 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (170) and Boston (107). Palo Alto has 60.

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 381 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 60 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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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.