Venture Capital Firms in California
708 venture capital firms are on this list. Of those that report private fund gross assets from a main office in California, Andreessen Horowitz is the largest: $106.5 billion through A16z Capital Management, L.L.C. (filed ).
Sequoia Capital follows with $82.2 billion. The 702 firms counted report $1,033.2 billion together; the ten largest hold 44% of it, and half report less than $212 million.
Updated . Rechecked quarterly; next check . Figures read , as filed to .
- $25BN and over36%6 firms
- $10BN to $25BN17%11 firms
- $5BN to $10BN10%14 firms
- $1BN to $5BN23%104 firms
- $500MM to $1BN7%93 firms
- Under $500MM7%474 firms
Latest Form ADV of each, filed Jul 2025 to Sep 2026. Read ; sources at the end of the page.
- Venture capital firms listedList of November 2026; 705 are venture capital firms and 3 are advisers with venture capital funds
- 708
- Combined fund assets702 counted; as filed to Sep 2026
- $1,033.2BN
- Median firmHalf of the 702 report less
- $212MM
- Held by the ten largestOf the $1,033.2BN combined
- 44%
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund lead the California venture capital firms by fund assets
The ten largest by private fund gross assets on their latest Form ADV. Together they report $456.4BN, 44% of the $1,033.2BN the 702 counted report.
- 1
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture capital firm, Menlo Park
- 2
Sequoia Capital
Venture capital firm, Menlo Park
- 3
Founders Fund
Venture capital firm, San Francisco
- 4
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture capital firm, Menlo Park
- 5
Accel
Venture capital firm, Palo Alto
- 6
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Venture capital firm, Menlo Park
- 7
Y Combinator
Venture capital firm, Mountain View
- 8
Khosla Ventures
Venture capital firm, Menlo Park
- 9
Ribbit Capital
Venture capital firm, Palo Alto
- 10
Kleiner Perkins
Venture capital firm, Menlo Park
Gross assets of the private funds each adviser reported in its latest Form ADV. Each pin opens the filing behind the figure; the ranking rule and sources are at the end of the page. Read .
The ten largest hold 44% of the fund assets
How the 702 firms counted spread by size: most are small, the dollars sit at the top.
One dot per firm counted. Read .
Fund assets each reported in its latest filing; shares are of the $1,033.2BN combined, one row per firm. Read .
10%
of the fund assets reported sits with one firm, Andreessen Horowitz. The five largest hold 32%; 567 of 702 report under $1 billion.
- Venture capital firms705
- Advisers with venture capital funds3
Kind of each, from its own website and filings, checked November 2026.
- San Francisco218
- Palo Alto97
- Menlo Park74
- Los Angeles37
- San Mateo23
- Los Altos18
Main office on each firm's Form ADV.
Leaders beyond the ranking
Figures the main ranking does not compare: the largest holdings of US listed stocks, most active in private offerings, most private funds.
| Rank | Name | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreessen Horowitz | $14.2BNQ2 2026 |
| 2 | Eclipse | $2.6BNQ2 2026 |
| 3 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | $2.4BNQ2 2026 |
| 4 | Greenoaks | $2.4BNQ2 2026 |
| 5 | New Enterprise Associates (NEA) | $1.6BNQ2 2026 |
| 6 | Crosslink Capital | $1.4BNQ2 2026 |
| 7 | Venbio Partners | $519MMQ2 2026 |
| 8 | Menlo Ventures | $357MMQ2 2026 |
18 firms counted here report listed stocks for a 2026 quarter.
| Rank | Name | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frontier | 2513 issuers |
| 2 | Greenoaks | 97 issuers |
| 3 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | 63 issuers |
| 4 | Mana Ventures | 55 issuers |
| 5 | Benchmark | 44 issuers |
| 6 | Sequoia Capital | 42 issuers |
| 7 | Shield Capital | 42 issuers |
| 8 | Tenoneten | 31 issuer |
Counts notices, new and amended, filed by issuers whose name begins with the name; offering amounts are not shown.
| Rank | Name | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreessen Horowitz | 119Mar 2026 |
| 2 | MVP Ventures | 102Mar 2026 |
| 3 | RCV Global | 90Mar 2026 |
| 4 | Accel | 83Mar 2026 |
| 5 | Tribe Capital | 81Sep 2026 |
| 6 | Ribbit Capital | 67Mar 2026 |
| 7 | Craft Ventures Management | 65Mar 2026 |
| 8 | Quiet Capital Management | 62Apr 2026 |
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All 708 venture capital firms
A to Z, with each firm's private fund gross assets, private funds, listed stocks and fund offerings, each with a pin to its filing; firms with no figure show the interests they state on their own sites.
Showing all 708 firms
The first 30 are shown here; find, a kind or a size shows every match.
No row matches. Clear the find field or choose All.
Fund assets are the gross assets of the private funds in the adviser's latest Form ADV (solid bar; grey when the firm is not in the totals). Listed stocks are the US listed securities a firm reports each quarter; fund offerings count the private offering notices of funds named for the firm in two years. Each pin opens the filing behind the figure. The square beside a name opens every figure with its filing and notes.
A few large advisers hold most of the money
Six findings from the filings of the 702 firms counted.
- 10%
of the $1,033.2 billion the 702 firms counted report is one firm's: Andreessen Horowitz. Without it, the other 701 report $926.8 billion.
Fund assets, latest Form ADV of each; sums of filed figures
- $212MM
is the median: half of the 702 report less, and 567 report under $1 billion.
Fund assets, latest Form ADV of each
- 5,967
private funds are advised by the firms counted; Andreessen Horowitz advises the most, 119.
Private funds on each Form ADV (Schedule D); sums of filed figures
- $27.1BN
of US listed stocks reported by 18 firms counted for a 2026 quarter; the largest, Andreessen Horowitz, reported $14.2 billion.
Quarterly listed stock reports (Form 13F), 2026
- 128
private offering notices in two years were filed by funds and vehicles named for 63 firms; Frontier leads with 25.
Private offering notices, to
- 407
of the 702 have their main office in San Francisco Bay Area; the next place is Silicon Valley, with 145.
Main office on each Form ADV
Questions
How many venture capital firms are there in California?
This list holds 708 venture capital firms in California; 702 of them report private fund gross assets on Form ADV, $1,033.2 billion together.
What are the largest venture capital firms in California?
By the private fund gross assets they report: Andreessen Horowitz $106.5 billion, Sequoia Capital $82.2 billion, Founders Fund $58.9 billion, Lightspeed Venture Partners $50.0 billion, Accel $38.0 billion.
How much do venture capital firms in California typically manage?
Of the 702 that report, the median reports $212 million in private fund gross assets; 567 report under $1 billion.
How do you start a relationship with venture capital firms in California?
Each firm on this page links to its own website, and each figure carries a pin that opens the public filing it comes from. For fund managers and companies raising capital, Praxis Rock runs capital formation programs; see Raise Capital.
Sources and method
- Who is listed
- 708 venture capital firms, 705 are venture capital firms and 3 are advisers with venture capital funds, as researched for this list; no row leaves the list.
- Ranking rule
- The top 10, every total, share and median, the charts and the answers to the questions use one set: the 702 advisers that report private fund gross assets in their latest SEC Form ADV, with a main office in California, that the filing itself ties to the row (the CRD the list cites, or the row's own website in Item 1.I), one figure per adviser. A name match with no such tie is shown in the row's detail only, never ranked or counted.
- Our arithmetic
- The $1,033.2BN, the median, shares, charts and boards are sums and medians of filed numbers over that one set; 0 firms with a figure outside it stay listed with the figure and the reason.
- Pins
- Each figure's pin opens the filing it comes from: the adviser's Form ADV as filed, or the SEC filing index of its 13F report or of the latest private offering notice (Form D). The pin's label names the source and its date.
- What we searched
- On we searched every firm by its website against the websites advisers list on Form ADV, by the CRD the list cites, by name for Form ADV, and by every CIK found for 13F reports, and searched private offering notices for funds named for it. Of the 708, 708 report on a current Form ADV, 26 file 13F reports (18 for a 2026 quarter with a value), 63 have funds named for them in private offering notices, and 0 more show a possible match by name only in their detail, not counted.
- Words
- Kinds and interests are each firm's own, from its website. No person names are shown.
| Figure | Source | Period, read |
|---|---|---|
| Assets, private funds, client types, main office, employees | SEC Form ADV adviser data, October 2026 report, and each adviser's Form ADV as filed, 708 advisers | Filings to 2026-10-01; read 2026-10-31 |
| Listed stocks | SEC EDGAR Form 13F, 26 filers | Latest quarter; read 2026-10-31 |
| Private offering notices of funds named for a firm | SEC EDGAR full text search, Form D and D/A | 2024-10-31 to 2026-10-31 |
| Kind, interests and website | Each firm's own website, as researched for this list | Checked 2026-10-31 |
| Logos | Each firm's own website; a monogram where none checks | Read 2026-10-31 |
Cite as: Praxis Rock Advisors, "Venture Capital Firms in California," updated November 1, 2026, praxisrock.com/resources/investors/vc-firms-california