Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Venture Capital companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Venture Capital industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top San Francisco Venture Capital Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
CircleUp
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CircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands.
500 Startups
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500 Startups is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs for founders, mentors, and investors.
SignalFire
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SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
AU21 Capital
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A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
Owl Ventures
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Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.
Informed.IQ
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Informed is a developer of a consumer auto financing platform designed to collect and analyze loan documents.
Riviera
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Riviera is an innovative Executive Recruiting firm focused exclusively on software Engineering, Product and Design executive search.
Digital Finance Group
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Diversified investment group that manages $1B in digital & blockchain assets across multiple funds, an incubator and global projects
Crunchbase
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Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data. Salespeople, CEOs, & VCs use it to find and close deals.
Graphiant
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Graphiant is a venture-funded stealth startup working on next-generation networking technologies.
SuRo Capital
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SuRo Capital is a publicly-traded fund that seeks to invest in high-growth, venture-backed private companies.
Bond
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Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth.
WestCap
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WestCap is an early growth-oriented investment firm that specializes in the fields of e-commerce, mobile payments, and private markets.
LAUNCH
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Our mission: To support founders & inspire innovation.
Multis
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Multis provides financial services for companies holding euros, dollars, and cryptocurrencies.
Revere VC
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Venture capital for the modern asset allocator.
Proseeder Technologies
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Proseeder is the innovation operating system for Fortune 500s, powering holistic enterprise innovation and collaboration.
Contrary
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Contrary is a venture fund backed by the world’s most iconic entrepreneurs that identifies and invests in top early-career talent.
Workday Ventures
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Workday Ventures works with early-stage companies to improve the next generation of enterprise software.
Bragiel Brothers
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Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds.
Concrete Rose Capital
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Concrete Rose Capital operates as an early-stage investment platform that primarily invests in companies serving underrepresented consumers.
Heroku
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Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
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gumi Cryptos Capital is a blockchain and cryptographic asset venture fund
Prologis Ventures
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Prologis Ventures invests in Series A through Growth stage companies focused on innovating in the logistics sector.
ACME Capital
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ACME Capital invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms.
Turn/River Capital
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Turn/River specializes in spin-outs, buyouts, recapitalizations, or growth equity investments in small-scale technology and web companies.
Fractionality.com
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Business Development, Positioning, Venture Accelerator
GFR Fund
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GFR Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry.
Work Life Ventures
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Work Life Ventures is a VC firm that invests in tools and services for people.
Bloomberg Beta
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Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture fund backed by Bloomberg that invests in startups focusing on machine learning.
Golden Gate Capital
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Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, provides buyout and growth equity investments for a variety of industries.
NightDragon
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NightDragon is a cybersecurity-focused VC firm investing in innovative growth and late stage companies.
HabitRPG
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HabitRPG is a gamified habit improvement app that helps users build real life habits.
Anduin
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The workflow platform built for private market transactions
Sterling Road
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Sterling Road is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed stage B2B startups.
Wave Capital
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Wave is a venture firm that specializes in marketplaces.
Oakhouse Partners
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Oakhouse Partners invests in companies that use breakthrough technologies to radically improve millions of lives.
Mighty Capital
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A Silicon Valley venture capital firm that invests in companies building products that transform lives and create value at scale.
Tiny VC
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Early Stage Investments by Philipp Moehring and Andy Chung
S28 Capital
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S28 Capital is an early-stage venture fund with $170M under management. We’re a team of founders and early startup employees.
Builders VC
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Builders VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invest in modernize industries including healthcare, agriculture, and real estate.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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Orrick is a global law firm that focuses on serving technology, energy, infrastructure, and finance sectors.
Golub Capital
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Golub Capital provides flexible debt that enables fast-growing technology companies to expand with limited equity dilution.
Mana Ventures
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Mana Ventures invests in early stage companies disrupting traditional industries and building the future of frontier technologies.
Alpha Bridge Ventures
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Alpha Bridge Ventures invests in post seed stage companies and the personal development of their founders.
Midas League
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Midas League is a technology platform that connects family offices with venture capital funds for co-investments.
Volt Capital
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Volt Capital is a research and community driven crypto fund.
MOTHER SUPERIOR
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Mother Superior is a venture and social purpose foundry that provides access to founders left outside of the margins of venture capital.
Thayer Ventures
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Thayer Ventures (Thayer) invests in Travel Technology.
SmartHub
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SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best startups to investors and supports at every investment.
