IoT & hardware Pre-seed investors
This slice of our investor database holds 240 IoT & hardware Pre-seed investors. They sit in 59 cities across 6 countries, most of them in San Francisco (53), New York (36) and Palo Alto (24). The sectors they back most often here are IoT & hardware (240), SaaS (220) and AI (183). The median firm in this slice has made 108 investments; across the slice the total is 60,552. The median number of exits is 14. By stage: Pre-seed (240), Seed (238), Series A (229), Series B (96) and Growth (93). The largest portfolios in this slice belong to 500 Startups, SOSV and NEA - New Enterprise Associates. 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.
- 240 firms in this slice.
- Most concentrated in San Francisco (53).
- Median investments per firm: 108.
- Leading sector: IoT & hardware (240).
- 240 rows carry a contact address; those are the paid part.
| By stage | Investors |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 240 |
| Seed | 238 |
| Series A | 229 |
| Series B | 96 |
| Growth | 93 |
| By sector | Investors |
|---|---|
| iot | 240 |
| saas | 220 |
| ai | 183 |
| fintech | 170 |
| enterprise | 163 |
| data-analytics | 162 |
| mobile | 158 |
| healthtech | 150 |
| ecommerce | 138 |
| logistics | 136 |
| By city | Investors |
|---|---|
| San Francisco | 53 |
| New York | 36 |
| Palo Alto | 24 |
| Menlo Park | 23 |
| Boston | 9 |
| Los Angeles | 7 |
| Seattle | 6 |
| Santa Monica | 5 |
| By type | Investors |
|---|---|
| Venture funds | 227 |
| Accelerators | 5 |
| Corporate VC | 4 |
| Angel networks | 3 |
| Family offices | 1 |
Number of investments made, by firm.
| Portfolio size | Investors |
|---|---|
| 0–10 | 2 |
| 10–25 | 23 |
| 25–50 | 32 |
| 50–100 | 56 |
| 100+ | 127 |
Preview — 15 of 240
| Investor | Type | Location | Stages | Investments | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 Startups | Venture funds | San Francisco, IN | Seed, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| SOSV | Venture funds | Princeton, US | Seed, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| NEA - New Enterprise Associates | Venture funds | US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| Accel | Venture funds | Palo Alto, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| Plug and Play Tech Center | Accelerators | Sunnyvale, US | Seed, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| Kleiner Perkins | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-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 | — | |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | Venture funds | Menlo Park, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| Advantage Capital | Venture funds | New Orleans | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| General Catalyst | Venture funds | New York, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | — | |
| Tiger Global Management | Venture funds | New York, 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 | — | |
| nCino | Venture funds | New York, US | Series B, Seed, Growth, Pre-seed, Series A | — |
Questions
What is free here?
Name, type, stages, sectors, city and country, website, investment and exit counts — as aggregates across all 240 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 240 rows in XLSX and CSV, including contact email (240 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.
Where this data comes from · updated 9/5/2026