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Top 25 Seed stage investors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,585 seed stage investors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 25,222 professional contacts across them, including 6,151 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers seed stage investors 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 22, 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 seed stage investors based in the 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 981 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 932 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 711 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 610 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LvlUp Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in and accelerating early-stage & late-stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 545 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 388 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Village Capital is reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GoAhead Ventures is a Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley managing over $250M in AUM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is focused on investing in early-stage technology and technology-enabled companies, and has been since 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greylock was founded in 1965, one of the few venture firms that predates Silicon Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: seed 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 seed stage investors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of seed stage investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name seed 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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Seed stage investors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,585 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 seed 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “seed 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 seed 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 seed stage investors, 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, 6,151 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 22, 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.
Seed stage investors by metro
- Seed stage investors in San Francisco211
- Seed stage investors in New York188
- Seed stage investors in Palo Alto65
- Seed stage investors in Los Angeles55
- Seed stage investors in Austin47
- Seed stage investors in Chicago46
- Seed stage investors in Menlo Park44
- Seed stage investors in Boston43
- Seed stage investors in Miami38
- Seed stage investors in Dallas26
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 seed 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 seed stage investors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,585 seed stage investors 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?
Y Combinator, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most seed stage investors?
San Francisco leads with 211 headquartered companies, followed by New York (188) and Palo Alto (65).
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 6,151 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,585 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 22, 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.
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