Top 300 Seed Venture Capital Firms (2026)

1. Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz invests in technology companies from seed to late-stage, focusing on areas like software, biotech, crypto, and fintech. Beyond just capital, they offer extensive operational support to help build foundational companies, including successes like Coinbase, Lyft, and Github.

2. Menlo Ventures

Since 1976, Menlo Ventures has backed technology companies from seed to early growth stages across the consumer, enterprise, and life sciences industries. Their market-driven approach has helped build a portfolio with over 70 public companies, including transformative businesses like Uber, Roku, and Siri.

3. Tribe Capital

Tribe Capital applies data science and proprietary AI tools to identify and invest in promising venture and crypto startups. Beyond capital, they help companies like Carta, Docker, and Kraken understand their product-market fit and accelerate sustainable growth.

4. General Catalyst

General Catalyst partners with founders from the seed stage through to growth, providing the capital and guidance needed to build resilient companies. Their work advancing applied AI has helped create category-defining businesses like Airbnb and HubSpot in sectors ranging from consumer tech to healthcare.

5. Pear VC

Pear VC partners with founders at the pre-seed and seed stages to build category-defining companies across sectors from consumer tech to deep science. The firm's hands-on approach is backed by a history of successful early investments in startups like DoorDash, Dropbox, and Gusto.

6. Accel

Accel partners with entrepreneurs from the early and growth stages to help build companies that will shape next-generation industries. This approach has led them to back some of the world's most iconic companies, including Facebook, Spotify, Slack, and Dropbox.

7. Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital partners with founders to build legendary companies across sectors like technology, healthcare, and finance. Their long history of backing industry-defining ventures includes early investments in foundational companies like Apple, Google, and Nvidia.

8. Paradigm

As a research-driven firm, Paradigm backs crypto and Web3 companies and protocols from their earliest stages. They go beyond just funding by contributing to open-source projects and offering strategic guidance, helping build foundational companies like Uniswap and MoonPay.

9. Insight Partners

Insight Partners invests globally in growth-stage software and technology companies, focusing on sectors like Fintech, Cybersecurity, and AI. Their backing has helped scale category-defining companies including Twitter, Docusign, and Shopify, driven by a core belief that growth creates opportunity.

10. Gaingels

The Gaingels venture syndicate invests in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders, championing positive social change through business. Beyond providing capital, the network also helps its portfolio companies identify and recruit diverse talent for their leadership teams and boards.