SF Bay Area
San Francisco · Palo Alto · Menlo Park · Oakland
92 investors14 active15 slow63 quietupdated Jul 17, 2026
| Stage | Sectors | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active | Susa Ventures Compact three-GP seed fund; closed a $175M Fund V in 2026 to keep backing seed-stage founders. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$3M | Agnostic | Arkenstone Defense 25d ago · $35M | San Francisco |
| Active | Pear VC Pre-seed and seed specialist that partners with founders pre-launch via its PearX accelerator through Series A. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $250K–$6M | Agnostic | Brekfuz 1mo ago · $525K | San Francisco |
| Active | Chapter One Jeff Morris Jr.'s pre-seed fund writing small first checks with a track record including Lyft and Mercury. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $5K–$500K | Agnostic | Ground 1mo ago · $3.6M | San Francisco |
| Active | South Park Commons Fund Community-first 'anti-accelerator' fund backing technical founders as they discover their idea, then invests at formation. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $1M–$10M | Agnostic | Maya Research 1mo ago · $1.9M | San Francisco |
| Active | SignalFire Data-driven early-stage fund; raised $1B+ in 2025 with explicit focus on applied AI at pre-seed and seed. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $100K–$5M | Agnostic | swsh 1mo ago · $4M | San Francisco |
| Active | Precursor Ventures Pre-seed specialist writing the first institutional check based on team quality across software and hardware. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $250K–$500K | Agnostic | Courtroom 1mo ago | San Francisco |
| Slow | Heavybit Leading investor in developer-first infrastructure and enterprise startups, raised $180M+ across two funds in 2026. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$5M | developer_toolsinfrastructurecybersecurity | Modiqo 2mo ago · $3M | San Francisco |
| Slow | Liquid 2 Ventures Joe Montana's early-stage fund taking small positions alongside leads while providing operational support. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $250K–$1M | Agnostic | Byron 2mo ago · $9.1M | San Francisco |
| Slow | Basis Set Ventures AI-focused seed and Series A fund; closed a $250M Fund IV in January 2026 to back applied-AI founders. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $250K–$3M | aienterprisefintech | Synthetic 2mo ago · $10M | San Francisco |
| Slow | Moxxie Ventures Katie Stanton's seed fund; raised a $95M third fund and backs consumer and enterprise software founders. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$2M | Agnostic | Knit Health 2mo ago · $11.6M | San Francisco |
| Slow | AIX Ventures AI-native fund built for and by AI practitioners; closed a $202M Fund II to back early AI-native startups. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $750K–$3M | ai | Illoca 2mo ago · $13M | San Francisco |
| Slow | Slow Ventures Generalist seed fund funding rapid experimentation across consumer, fintech, SaaS and creator-economy startups. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$3M | Agnostic | Kibu 3mo ago · $10.5M | San Francisco |
| Slow | Kindred Ventures Earliest-stage fund and startup studio led by Steve Jang, raised ~$227M across two vehicles in early 2026. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$5M | Agnostic | Pomo 3mo ago · $4.5M | San Francisco |
| Slow | XYZ Venture Capital Seed and Series A fund focused on public sector, fintech, enterprise, climate and historically overlooked industries. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $1M–$5M | public_sectorfintechenterprise+1 | Felix 3mo ago · $1.7M | San Francisco |
| Quiet | Weekend Fund Ryan Hoover's pre-seed/seed fund writing $100K-300K checks into consumer and B2B startups globally. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $100K–$300K | Agnostic | Linkup 5mo ago · $10M | San Francisco |
| Quiet | Initialized Capital Seed-stage generalist that backed Coinbase, Instacart and Rippling at inception; ~230M Fund V for new seed founders. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$4M | Agnostic | Seamflow 5mo ago · $4.5M | San Francisco |
| Quiet | Fifty Years Unicorn-founder-backed deep-tech fund tackling climate, disease, connectivity and malnutrition at seed. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $1M–$5M | deeptechclimatebiotech+1 | Adaption Labs 5mo ago · $50M | San Francisco |
| Quiet | Floodgate Contrarian seed fund led by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko that sets terms rather than filling out rounds. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$3M | Agnostic | Wavedash 7mo ago · $4.3M | Palo Alto |
| Quiet | Village Global Reid Hoffman-chaired seed fund giving founders access to a network of 400+ operators and investors. | VC Fund | Pre-seedSeed | $500K–$3M | Agnostic | Mesta 10mo ago · $5.5M | San Francisco |
| Quiet | 500 Global (Flagship Accelerator) Rolling-admission global accelerator offering $150K for 6% equity, hosted at HQ in Palo Alto. | Program | Pre-seedSeed | $150K–$150K | Agnostic | none announced | Palo Alto, CA |
| Quiet | AI Grant Accelerator for seed-stage AI startups founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, offering $250K uncapped SAFE plus cloud credits. | Program | Pre-seedSeed | $250K–$250K | ai | none announced | San Francisco, CA |
| Quiet | Bee Partners Conviction-first pre-seed fund backing AI/ML, robotics, automation and synthetic biology founders. | Micro VC | Pre-seed | $300K–$500K | airoboticsautomation+1 | none announced | San Francisco |
| Quiet | Boost VC Frontier-tech fund backing robotics, space, bio and crypto founders with $500K lead/co-lead pre-seed checks. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $100K–$1M | roboticsspacebiotech+2 | none announced | San Mateo |
| Quiet | Day One Ventures Seed fund pairing capital with in-house communications support; backed Superhuman, Aven and Remote. | Micro VC | Pre-seedSeed | $100K–$5M | Agnostic | none announced | San Francisco |
| Quiet | Entrepreneur First — The Bridge (SF Residency) EF's 8-week Bay Area Hacker House residency for pre-team, pre-idea founders, up to $250K initial and $3M in future EF rounds. | Program | Pre-seed | $250K–$3M | Agnostic | none announced | San Francisco, CA |
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