IoT & hardware investors in San Francisco Bay Area
This slice of our investor database holds 200 IoT & hardware San Francisco Bay Area investors.
About this slice
This slice of our investor database holds 200 IoT & hardware San Francisco Bay Area investors. They sit in 15 cities, most of them in San Francisco (88), Palo Alto (38) and Menlo Park (36). The sectors they back most often here are IoT & hardware (200), AI (152) and SaaS (148). The median firm in this slice has made 109 investments; across the slice the total is 40,084. The median number of exits is 18. By stage: Pre-seed (133), Seed (179), Series A (177), Series B (92) and Growth (73). The largest portfolios in this slice belong to Accel, Kleiner Perkins and SV Angel. Every row below is shown in full except the contact details, which are the paid part of the dataset. The numbers on this page are recomputed from the database, so they change when the data does.
Who is deploying in this slice
Covered: 47% of the slice. The rest are marked no data — which is not the same as inactive. Which funds these are, and the link proving it, is in the paid export.
- 200 firms in this slice.
- Most concentrated in San Francisco (88).
- Median investments per firm: 109.
- Leading sector: IoT & hardware (200).
- 193 rows carry a contact address; those are the paid part.
| By stage | Investors |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 133 |
| Seed | 179 |
| Series A | 177 |
| Series B | 92 |
| Growth | 73 |
| By sector | Investors |
|---|---|
| iot | 200 |
| ai | 152 |
| saas | 148 |
| data-analytics | 125 |
| fintech | 120 |
| enterprise | 111 |
| healthtech | 109 |
| mobile | 107 |
| logistics | 105 |
| deeptech | 99 |
| By city | Investors |
|---|---|
| San Francisco | 88 |
| Palo Alto | 38 |
| Menlo Park | 36 |
| San Mateo | 6 |
| Mountain View | 5 |
| Los Altos | 4 |
| San Jose | 4 |
| Foster City | 3 |
| By type | Investors |
|---|---|
| Venture funds | 186 |
| Corporate VC | 8 |
| Angels | 3 |
| Private equity | 2 |
| Angel networks | 1 |
Number of investments made, by firm.
| Portfolio size | Investors |
|---|---|
| 0–10 | 13 |
| 10–25 | 13 |
| 25–50 | 13 |
| 50–100 | 38 |
| 100+ | 90 |
Preview — 15 of 200
| Investor | Type | Location | Stages | Investments | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accel | Venture funds | Palo Alto, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Kleiner Perkins | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| SV Angel | Venture funds | San Francisco, US | Series B, Seed, Series A | ||
| Bessemer Venture Partners | Venture funds | Redwood City, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Andreessen Horowitz | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Right Side Capital Management | Venture funds | San Francisco, US | Seed | ||
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Khosla Ventures | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| GV | Venture funds | Mountain View, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Threshold Ventures | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Series A | ||
| Norwest Venture Partners | Venture funds | Palo Alto, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| GGV Capital | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Greylock | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Founders Fund | Venture funds | San Francisco, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | ||
| Venrock | Venture funds | Palo Alto, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A |
The first three rows link out to the funds themselves. Investment counts and contacts for every row come with the export.
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- 200 investors in this slice, with working email
- One-time payment — no subscription, no recurring fees
- Instant download in XLSX and CSV
- Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, sectors, stages, portfolio and exits
Access follows the list, not a file: the export is rebuilt regularly and you always download the current version. Last rebuilt October 20, 2026.
- Every investor in the database, with working email — this slice included
- One-time payment — no subscription, no recurring fees
- Instant download in XLSX and CSV
- Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, sectors, stages, portfolio and exits
Access follows the list, not a file: the export is rebuilt regularly and you always download the current version. Last rebuilt October 20, 2026.
Questions
What is free here?
Name, type, stages, sectors, city and country, website, investment and exit counts — as aggregates across all 200 rows and row by row for the first fifteen. Contact addresses are not part of the free view and are physically absent from this page.
What does buying add?
The full export of all 200 rows in XLSX and CSV, including contact email (193 rows have one). Access follows the list, not a file: the export is rebuilt and you always download the current version.
Where does the data come from?
Source and method are described on the investor data sources page. We do not claim verification that did not happen — each row carries a confidence level. An investor who asks to be excluded is removed from both the preview and the export.
Updated 10/20/2026