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Top 25 Venture backed AI companies based in Palo Alto, United States
RevenueBase identified 63 venture backed AI companies headquartered in Palo Alto, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 831 professional contacts across them, including 287 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (250 companies); Palo Alto has 63.
This list covers venture backed AI companies 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 29, 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 venture backed AI companies based in Palo Alto, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Pathway we are shaking the foundations of artificial intelligence by introducing the world's first post-transformer model that adapts and thinks just like humans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Data Monsters, a Palo Alto-based R&D lab and consulting company, provides professional services in the AI space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SAIGroup is a private investment company focused on acquiring and growing enterprise AI companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Early stage tech VC” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AI-first, seed-first fund in digital health, automation (cars, drones, robots) & enterprise” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Costanoa exists to elevate founders building companies of consequence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hack VC is a thesis-driven venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We execute the whole, or any part of the machine learning development pipeline from exploration to deployed solution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SAV(Scale Asia Ventures) is a Palo Alto based multi-stage venture fund focused on Enterprise Software, Data-driven Life Sciences, and AI-powered Vertical Industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HelloGov® is a privately-held Artificial Intelligence (AI) company founded by former Machine Learning (ML) Researchers and Engineers from OpenAI, Tensorflow and the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a Silicon Valley venture capital rm purpose-built to help startup teams win in frontier technology and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Decades ago the challenge in investing was the difficulty in obtaining data and the ones who had the most data and were able to analyze it most effectively were the most…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hat-Trick Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture fund with $100M+ AUM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Beta Fund partners with exceptional technical founders at the inception stage-often before a company or clear idea exists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Valo Ventures is a thesis-driven venture capital firm investing in physical AI, energy and materials in North America and Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Data influences large-scale decision-making and the way most organizations function.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Advancing the future of computation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hanabi is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, investing primarily in Artificial Intelligence and Software Infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Next47 is a global venture firm built for enterprise founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Early stage venture capital firm with focus on AI and cybersecurity” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: venture backed AI 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 venture backed AI companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture backed AI companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture backed AI 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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Venture backed AI companies based in Palo Alto, United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
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 63 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 venture backed AI 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 Palo Alto, United States whose own description of what they do matches “venture backed AI 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 venture backed AI 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 venture backed AI companies, 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, 287 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 29, 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.
Venture backed AI companies by metro in the United States
- Venture backed AI companies in New York250
- Venture backed AI companies in San Francisco238
- Venture backed AI companies in Austin64
- Venture backed AI companies in Boston59
- Venture backed AI companies in Los Angeles59
- Venture backed AI companies in Miami49
- Venture backed AI companies in Dallas41
- Venture backed AI companies in Chicago38
- Venture backed AI companies in San Diego35
- Venture backed AI companies in Seattle34
- Venture backed AI companies in Menlo Park29
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 venture backed AI 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 venture backed AI companies are there based in Palo Alto, United States?
RevenueBase identified 63 venture backed AI companies 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?
DCVC, headquartered in Palo Alto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most venture backed AI companies?
New York leads the United States with 250 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (238) and Austin (64). Palo Alto has 63.
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 287 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 63 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 29, 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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