Investor Directory
Venture capital firms finance companies at their earliest and fastest-growing stages, exchanging capital for equity long before the public markets or lenders will engage. This national directory profiles leading United States venture firms alongside dedicated early-stage partnerships, from multi-stage platforms investing across software, healthcare and financial technology to seed specialists and deep tech investors. Every figure shown is taken from the firm's SEC Form ADV filing, and firms whose advisers are exempt from reporting are listed without a figure rather than with an estimate. City guides for San Francisco and Austin sit alongside this page for founders and fund managers researching regional venture ecosystems.
Data last verified: August 2026
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AUM
$38B
as of 2026-03-30
Global venture capital firm partnering with exceptional founders from the earliest stages through growth, with deep roots in enterprise software and consumer internet.
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Early-stage through growth venture capital in software and internet
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AUM
$106.4B
as of 2026-03-30
Silicon Valley venture capital firm backing bold founders across software, artificial intelligence, bio and healthcare, financial technology, crypto and defense, from seed through late stage.
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Multi-stage venture capital in software, AI, bio, fintech, crypto and American dynamism
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Seed and early-stage venture capital firm co-founding and backing companies in life sciences, physical sciences and information technology.
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Seed and early-stage venture capital in life and physical sciences
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AUM
$9.8B
as of 2026-03-31
Venture capital affiliate of Bain Capital backing founders from seed through growth across infrastructure and application software, financial technology, commerce and healthcare, operating as its own SEC-registered adviser.
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Seed to growth venture capital in software, fintech, commerce and healthcare
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AUM
$15.6B
as of 2026-03-30
Global venture capital and private equity firm backing innovative technology companies at every stage of growth, from startups to established market leaders.
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Venture capital and private equity in technology
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Early-stage venture capital partnership known for its equal-partner model and concentrated portfolio of category-defining internet and software companies.
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Early-stage venture capital, equal-partner model
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AUM
$20.2B
as of 2026-05-13
Venture capital firm partnering with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring cloud, consumer, healthcare and deep tech companies, with one of the largest cloud portfolios in venture capital.
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Venture capital in cloud, consumer, healthcare and deep tech
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Early-stage venture capital firm investing in visionaries with transformative ideas across technology and healthcare.
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Early-stage venture capital in technology and healthcare
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Founder-built venture firm designed by founders for founders, investing in generational SaaS and marketplace companies from early stage onward.
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Early-stage and growth SaaS and marketplace venture capital
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Early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise and consumer startups at their most crucial stages, in business for over half a century.
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Early-stage enterprise and consumer venture capital
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Deep tech venture capital firm backing brilliant founders applying computation and data to hard real-world problems in the physical and life sciences.
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Deep tech venture capital
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Venture capital firm backing iconic founders starting at seed, an early believer in category-defining software, infrastructure and consumer companies.
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Seed and early-stage venture capital
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San Francisco venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies, from aerospace and defense to artificial intelligence and biotech.
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Venture capital for revolutionary technologies
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Early-stage venture capital firm partnering with remarkable teams building consumer and enterprise software companies, among the oldest venture partnerships in the country.
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Early-stage consumer and enterprise venture capital
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Later-stage venture firm accelerating breakout technology companies through hypergrowth, with a portfolio spanning consumer and enterprise leaders built over four decades.
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Later-stage venture capital for breakout companies
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Venture firm providing venture assistance to founders building bold, early and impactful companies across sustainability, artificial intelligence, health and deep tech.
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Bold, early, impactful venture capital across deep tech and sustainability
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American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road partnering with founders from inception through growth across consumer, enterprise, hard tech and financial technology.
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Early-stage and growth venture capital on Sand Hill Road
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AUM
$50B
as of 2026-05-06
Multi-stage venture capital firm backing bold founders and disruptive innovations from seed through late stage across enterprise, consumer, health and financial technology.
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Multi-stage venture capital from seed to late stage
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Seattle venture capital firm teaming with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success, from day one through growth.
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Day-one venture capital in the Pacific Northwest and beyond
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People-first early-stage venture capital firm investing at inception in artificial intelligence and technology companies from its base on Sand Hill Road.
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People-first early-stage venture capital in AI
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Early-stage venture capital firm investing across artificial intelligence, consumer, enterprise and healthcare technologies for half a century in Silicon Valley.
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Early-stage venture capital across AI, consumer, enterprise and healthcare
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Venture capital firm partnering with visionary entrepreneurs across seed, early and growth phases to create new markets and redefine existing ones.
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Seed, early and growth venture capital
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AUM
$10.4B
as of 2026-07-30
Venture capital firm partnering with expansion-stage enterprise software and AI companies it believes can become category leaders, with teams in the US and Europe.
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Expansion-stage enterprise software and AI venture capital
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Early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise software companies bringing new categories of intelligent automation to market.
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Early-stage enterprise software venture capital
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AUM
$82.1B
as of 2026-07-17
Storied Silicon Valley venture firm helping the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond, across consumer and enterprise technology.
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Seed to growth venture capital in consumer and enterprise technology
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New York venture capital firm investing at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal change.
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Thesis-driven early-stage venture capital
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CAPITAL LANDSCAPE
American venture capital now runs in two tiers. The largest platforms operate as SEC-registered investment advisers whose regulatory assets rival established buyout firms, managing multi-stage funds, crossover vehicles and wealth products while still writing seed checks through dedicated early-stage funds. Alongside them, storied partnerships have stayed deliberately small, filing as exempt reporting advisers and concentrating on early-stage conviction rather than asset gathering.
Geography still matters. Silicon Valley anchors the industry, from Sand Hill Road partnerships to San Francisco firms, but the map on this page runs through New York, Boston, Seattle, Chicago, Stamford and Austin, and several firms deliberately back founders far from the coastal hubs.
For founders and fund managers, Form ADV is the cleanest lens on the industry: it separates advisers who report regulatory assets from partnerships exempt from reporting, and it anchors every figure in this directory to a regulator-primary filing rather than to a survey or a press release.
LOCAL MARKET
The United States hosts the deepest venture capital market in the world, anchored by Silicon Valley and reinforced by clusters in New York, Boston, Seattle, Chicago and Austin
The largest platforms now operate as registered investment advisers whose reported assets rival established buyout firms, while equal-partner boutiques keep concentrated early-stage portfolios
Registered advisers report assets on SEC Form ADV, giving founders and limited partners a regulator-primary basis for comparing firms
Exempt reporting advisers, which include several of the most storied venture partnerships, file ADV without an assets figure, so this directory lists them without one
A venture capital firm raises funds from limited partners such as endowments, pension funds and family offices, then invests that capital in early-stage and high-growth private companies in exchange for equity. Returns come from exits, when portfolio companies are acquired or go public.
Venture capital backs young, fast-growing companies with minority stakes and expects most of its returns from a small number of outsized winners. Private equity typically acquires control of established, cash-flowing businesses and drives returns through operational improvement and leverage.
Measured by regulatory assets reported on SEC Form ADV, the largest venture firms listed in this directory are Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners. Storied partnerships such as Benchmark and Greylock file as exempt reporting advisers and disclose no comparable figure.
Venture firms earn management fees on committed capital and carried interest, a share of profits above the capital their limited partners put in. Carried interest only pays when portfolio exits return more than the fund invested, which aligns the firm with its investors.
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