50 Best Venture Capital Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent venture capital companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 19,073 companies tracked on Fsome.

19,073
Total Companies
$209.4B
Total Funding
$11.0M
Avg Funding
New York
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
500 Global
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders buildi…
San Francisco $2.3M Series Unknown 2021-02-17
2
L Catterton
L Catterton is a consumer-focused investment firm that seeks to invest in consum…
Greenwich Private Equity 2023-03-23
3
Endeavor Catalyst
Endeavor Catalyst is a co-investment fund
New York $375K Undisclosed 2022-01-15
4
Stonepeak
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners invests in infrastructure assets with stable c…
New York $350.0M Private Equity 2023-07-11
5
8VC
8VC invests in innovative technologies that create economic and societal value.
San Francisco Series Unknown 2018-05-01
6
Antler
Antler is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments for sta…
Singapore $78.0M Series Unknown 2024-02-16
7
Paradigm
Paradigm is a research-driven crypto investment firm that funds companies and pr…
San Francisco Series Unknown 2018-12-01
8
Plug and Play
Plug and Play connects startups with corporations and investors across multiple …
Sunnyvale $5.8M Grant 2025-12-15
9
Catalio Capital Management
Catalio Capital Management is a venture capital firm that invests in breakthroug…
New York 11 - 50 Private Equity 2023-10-17
10
Coller Capital
Coller Capital is an investment firm that specializes in buying and selling exis…
London 251 - 500 Series Unknown 2025-11-03
11
Sixth Street
Sixth Street Partners is an investment firm that develops themes and offers solu…
San Francisco 501 - 1K Private Equity 2017-04-11
12
Venture Catalysts
Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that offers funding, mentorship, an…
Mumbai 101 - 250 $18.7M Secondary Market 2025-09-08
13
Entrepreneurs First
Entrepreneurs First increases the world’s supply of great tech startups by findi…
London 51 - 100 $380.0M Series D 2026-03-11
14
Accel-KKR
Accel-KKR is a technology-focused private equity firm specialized in growth and …
Menlo Park 101 - 250 Private Equity 2025-06-18
15
Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners is a global investment firm that specializes in partnering wi…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $80.6M Undisclosed 2018-07-13
16
Arbe
Arbe Robotics offers real time 4D imaging radar software for autonomous driving.
Tel Aviv-yafo 101 - 250 $266.8M Post Ipo Debt 2025-12-30
17
DSG Consumer Partners
DSG Consumer Partners is an investment company focusing on identifying, investin…
Singapore 11 - 50 Series Unknown 2022-03-29
18
Icehouse Ventures
Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs brave kiwi founders with …
Auckland 11 - 50 $15.5M Undisclosed 2025-12-08
19
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm.
Montréal 251 - 500 $77.0M Debt Financing 2022-06-23
20
D. E. Shaw & Co.
D. E. Shaw & Co. is a global investment and technology development firm.
New York 1K - 5K Private Equity 2013-01-01
21
Team8
Team8 creates and invests in companies specializing in enterprise technologies, …
Tel Aviv-yafo 51 - 100 $56.0M Series Unknown 2017-01-09
22
Permira
Permira is an investment firm that provides capital and strategic support to bus…
London 501 - 1K Private Equity 2020-07-14
23
Flow
Flow solves the complexity of fund infrastructure.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $26.0M Series Unknown 2024-08-07
24
Clearlake Capital Group
Clearlake Capital Group is a private equity group that invests in communications…
Santa Monica 101 - 250 Private Equity 2018-05-29
25
Acumen
Acumen is a non-profit venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solv…
New York 101 - 250 $20.0M Debt Financing 2025-09-23
26
Khazanah Nasional
Khazanah Nasional is a strategic investment fund focused on late-stage venture a…
Kuala Lumpur 251 - 500 $1.0B Private Equity 2025-01-20
27
Innventure
Innventure is a provider of a global open-architecture venture platform.
Orlando 11 - 50 $157.9M Post Ipo Equity 2026-01-12
28
InterVest Capital Partners
InterVest Capital Partners is the New York-based asset-based lending, leasing, a…
New York 101 - 250 $867.0M Debt Financing 2025-12-22
29
Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and ear…
Cambridge 11 - 50 Series Unknown 2015-09-14
30
PitchBook
PitchBook offers financial data and tools on companies, deals, investors, and ma…
Seattle 1K - 5K $13.8M Series B 2016-01-27
31
Trinity Capital
Trinity Capital is a provider of venture debt and equipment financing to venture…
Phoenix 101 - 250 $1.9B Post Ipo Equity 2025-09-30
32
EWOR
The EWOR Fellowship backs the top tech founders globally with up to €500,000 and…
Berlin 11 - 50 $37.6M Series A 2025-04-29
33
SignalRank
SignalRank is an investment firm that indexes premier early stage companies usin…
Palo Alto 1 - 10 $27.1M Series A 2025-12-31
34
Escalate Capital Partners
Escalate Capital Partners is a mezzanine firm focused on investments in late-sta…
Austin 1 - 10 Private Equity 2022-09-06
35
Arch
Arch digitally manages private investment operations for investors and investmen…
New York 51 - 100 $77.5M Series B 2025-09-15
36
Rocketship.vc
Rocketship.vc is an early-stage venture fund investing in companies through data…
Los Altos 11 - 50 Convertible Note 2020-08-31
37
NightDragon
NightDragon is an investment and advisory firm focused on growth and late-stage …
San Francisco 101 - 250 Seed 2018-01-01
38
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is an artificial intelligence …
Seattle 101 - 250 $152.0M Grant 2025-08-14
39
Founders First Capital Partners
Founders First Capital Partners is a financial services company that offers advi…
San Diego 11 - 50 $120.0M Series A 2021-11-09
40
Redstart Labs
Redstart Labs is an Early stage investing in emerging Science and tech companies…
Delhi 1 - 10 $6.1M Corporate Round 2021-11-21
41
Oxford Science Enterprises
Oxford Science Enterprises a university-partnered venture firm, investing in ear…
Oxford 51 - 100 $345.3M Series B 2025-03-12
42
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. provides investment and asset management services …
Hudson 1K - 5K $4.3B Post Ipo Debt 2025-08-04
43
Aethon Energy Management
Aethon Energy is a private investment firm that focuses on asymmetric opportunit…
Dallas 251 - 500 $1.0B Debt Financing 2024-09-19
44
Lighthouse Canton
Lighthouse Canton is a global investment institution offering wealth and asset m…
Singapore 101 - 250 $40.0M Series Unknown 2025-11-04
45
Northleaf Capital Partners
Northleaf Capital Partners is private equity firm that manages pension plans, en…
Toronto 251 - 500 $532.3M Private Equity 2020-09-17
46
Anthemis
Anthemis is an asset management platform investing to change the world by reinve…
London 11 - 50 Undisclosed 2018-06-18
47
Third Sphere
Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsize…
New York 11 - 50 Undisclosed 2020-04-02
48
Aave
Aave is an open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lend…
London 101 - 250 $49.0M Secondary Market 2023-08-04
49
Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs, inventors of NVMe/TCP, offer next-gen software-defined block sto…
San Jose 51 - 100 $112.8M Series Unknown 2022-06-28
50
Seedcamp
Seedcamp is a European seed fund that identifies and invests early in founders a…
London 11 - 50 $4.1M Series Unknown 2016-01-01