Mark Kendall
Investment Banks play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top California Investment Banks. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top California Investment Banks
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Silicon Valley Bank
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses.
Wells Fargo
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture
Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Armentum Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt
Armentum Partners is a financial services firm focused on providing debt capital raising solutions to technology and healthcare companies.
Visa
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Bridge Bank
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture
Bridge Bank, an investment bank, provides business banking products and services to small- and middle-market businesses in the U.S.
Thomas Weisel Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC is a full service investment bank focused on the growth sectors of the global economy primarily in the
Brookside Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
They design, implement, and manage custom tailored portfolios of liquid assets for high net worth investors.
The Hina Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
They have become one of China’s leading cross border investment banking and private equity firms.
ROTH Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Post-Ipo, Private Equity
ROTH Capital Partners is an investment banking firm dedicated to the small-cap public market.
Hambrecht & Quist
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Hambrecht & Quist is an investment bank that focuses on the technology and internet sectors.
Palo Alto Investors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Palo Alto Investors is an investment advisor providing money management services.
City National Bank
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
City National Bank offers a full complement of banking, trust and investment services.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America.
Robertson Stephens Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
A San Francisco-based boutique investment bank that focused primarily on technology companies.
SVB Financial Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
SVB Financial Group offers banking, asset management, wealth management, investment services, and funds management services.
Chase H&Q
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Chase H&Q is an investment company that provides investment banking services to entrepreneurs and their companies.
B. Riley Financial
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital
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B. Riley Financial is a diversified provider of financial and business advisory services.
Charles Schwab
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Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Charles Schwab is a financial institution that provides brokerage and banking services.
Salem Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Salem Partners is a leading Los Angeles-based investment bank and wealth management firm. They build relationships using their judgment,
CapitalSource
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt, Private Equity
CapitalSource bank offers commercial loans and depository products and services to SMBs and individuals.
Foxhog Ventures Corp.
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Angel Group, Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator, Investment Bank, Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Non Equity Assistance, Venture
USA based Venture Capital Firm came up with Foxhog Small Finance Bank , helping startups to land idea into future with equity based funding.
Code Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Code Advisors, an investment banking firm, offers mergers, acquisitions, and capital raising advisory services for its clients.
Montgomery & Co
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Montgomery & Co. provides merger & acquisition and private placement services to growth companies. Montgomery & Co. is focused on media,
First Republic Bank
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt
First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
METRIX Capital Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
METRIX Capital Group was founded in 2011
M Partners Inc
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
M Partners Inc. is an independent full service investment bank based in Toronto.
Momentum Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Enterprise Class Advice. Aligned With Entrepreneurs.
Business Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Debt
Business Capital, founded in 2002, is a national commercial finance and restructuring company.
Luna Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Family Investment Office, Fund Of Funds, Hedge Fund, Investment Bank, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Luna Capital is a Cryptocurrency Investment Fund.
Heritage Bank of Commerce
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Heritage Bank of Commerce is a company that specializes in deposits and lending solutions.
ExCapsa Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post-Ipo, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Excapsa Group offers direct investing, investment banking, capital advisory, and insurance via a hybrid merchant / investment banking model.
Value Vision
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Value Vision is a boutique investment bank focused on PE and Special Situation Fund placement, M&A Advisory, Debt Syndication.
Financial Technology Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Financial Technology Partners is an investment banking firm focusing on financial technology.
Bank of The West
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Bank of The West provides a wide range of personal, commercial, wealth management, and international banking services.
Saehan
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Angel Group, Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Saehan Bancorp is a bank holding company with headquarters in Los Angeles, California. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Saehan Bank, offers a
Pacific Growth Equities
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Pacific Growth Equities is a research driven investment bank that specializes in technology based emerging growth companies.
American Discovery Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
American Discovery Capital is an independent merchant banking firm.
B. Riley Financial
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
B.Riley Financial specializes in extending its services in the areas of advisory, wealth management, retail, wholesale and venture capital.
Pagemill Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Pagemill Partners provides middle-market companies with financial advisory services in mergers, acquisitions, and more.
Chartered Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Chartered Group is a investment banking firm.
TIF Ventures Pte
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
TIF Ventures Pte Ltd is operating in the Brokerage and Investment Banking industries.
Barclays Global Investors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Barclays Global Investors is an investment management subsidiary of U.K. based Barclays Bank.
BUTTON CAPITAL
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Committed to life sciences and medical technology through searching and investing in right people and right team
Arbor Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Arbor Advisors is a Silicon Valley based investment bank focused exclusively on growing technology & technology enabled companies.
Evolution Media Capital (EMC)
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Evolution Media Capital (EMC) provides full-service traditional investment banking and strategic advisory services.
Siemer & Associates
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Siemer & Associates is a boutique merchant bank that serves digital media, software and internet companies.
Rutberg & Company
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Rutberg & Company is a research-centric investment bank focused exclusively on providing M&A advisory services to both public and private
WaveEdge Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
WaveEdge Capital is an independent M&A advisory firm that specializes in the life sciences and healthcare industries.
Shinnecock Partners LP
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Shinnecock Partners is a family office investment boutique, founded in 1988.
Piedmont Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Piedmont Capital was founded in 2005
Galaxy Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Galaxy Ventures is a boutique private investment and investment banking firm that invests in sectors ranging from clean tech to real estate.
RA Capital Advisors LLC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
RA Capital provides financial advisory services through RA Capital Advisors. RA Capital Advisors is a leading private investment bank.
Libertas Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Libertas Capital is an international financial services firm offering its clients a full range of dedicated independent Investment Banking
Boston Meridian Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Boston Meridian is an investment bank focused on providing M&A advisory and capital raising services to private and public growth companies.
Profectus Financial
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Profectus Financial is an investment adviser and financial management company.
M&A Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
M&A Capital, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm advising businesses.
Security Research Associates
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Post-Ipo
Security Research Associates is a boutique investment banking and capital markets firm.
First Security Van Kasper
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
First Security Van Kasper is a leading Private Brokerage and Investment Banking firm based in San Francisco.
Silver Portal Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Silver Portal Capital is an investment and merchant banking boutique that focuses exclusively on the real estate sector.
Montcalm Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Montcalm Capital is an advisory and investment firm.
Orion Capital Group, Inc.
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
M&A Advisory and Investment Banking
Lakshmi Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Lakshmi Capital is an asset management firm, manages client accounts according to an Absolute Return Strategy.
Batchelder & Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Batchelder & Partners, Inc. is a financial advisory firm
LightPath Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Investment Banking firm focused on growth and early stage companies.
LWK Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
LWK Ventures provides advisory and investment services.
Maroon Bells Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
A international merchant bank specializing in telecommunications, e-commerce and the Internet.
Myers Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Myers Capital Partners
Integrale Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Managing Director for Integrale Advisors
Jane Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Founded in 2001, the Jane Capital team has worked together for over 15 years through predecessor firms.
Boucher-Lensch Associates
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Boucher-Lensch Associates is a private investment bank focused on the electronics technology as well as the life sciences instrumentation.
Comerica – Technology & Life Sciences
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Comerica – Technology & Life Sciences is a company that offers wealth management services.
Petkevich & Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Petkevich & Partners is a new merchant bank offering capital and services to exceptional start-up companies.
Galen Investment Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Galen Investment Advisors
US Capital Global
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
US Capital team has been committed to providing small and lower middle market businesses.
Gain Hash
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Family Investment Office, Fund Of Funds, Government Office, Hedge Fund, Investment Bank, Pension Funds, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Bitcoin Mining Manufacturing
Houlihan Lokey
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank that focuses on capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting.
Hall Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
SEC-registered investment advisor
GCA
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Global investment bank providing strategic M&A, capital markets and private funds advisory services to growth companies and market leaders.
Woodside Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Woodside Capital Partners is a global, independent investment bank.
Boustead Securities
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Debt, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Post-Ipo, Private Equity, Secondary Market
Boustead Securities, LLC is an investment banking firm that advises clients on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, capital raises.
Vista Point Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Vista Point Advisors is a boutique investment bank that focuses on advising founder-led software and internet companies.
Scenic Advisement
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Scenic Advisement is the investment bank focused on secondary and primary capital raises for leading private companies.
Bandwidth Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Bandwidth Capital is a boutique investment bank that specializes in strategic corporate capital for early-stage companies.
Probitas Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Probitas Partners is a leading independent knowledge, innovation and solutions provider to private markets clients.
Edgar, Dunn & Company
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Edgar, Dunn & Company is an independent global financial services and payments consultancy.
Stone & Youngberg
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Stone & Youngberg LLC, an investment banking company, provides underwriting and investment advisory services.
WestPark Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
WestPark Capital is a full service investment banking and securities brokerage firm which serves the needs of private and public Companies.
Vaquero Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Leading investment banking advisory firm for private growth companies
Enter Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Family Investment Office, Investment Bank, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Enter Capital helps to deploy over $2 billion from US multi-strategy private equity funds and executes M&A deals
Objective Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Leading Investment Bank providing M&A Advisory, Valuation Advisory, and Corporate Development Services.
McCafferty & Company
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Investment bank focused on media.
Union Square Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Union Square Advisors is a strategic advisory firm focusing exclusively on the technology sector.
Guzzo & Co
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Guzzo & Co is a family-owned investment firm that invests in meaningful ventures to improve society and help communities.
North Point Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
North Point Advisors is a boutique investment bank that offers financial advisory services to public and private companies and financial
Demeter Advisory Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
Adult Beverage industry’s leading investment bank for M&A and private placement advisory services.
FocalPoint Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
FocalPoint is an independent investment bank, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.
River City Bank
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
Investment Stage:
River City Bank is a company that specializes in premier banking solutions.
Ambient Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
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AMBIENT is an advisory and investment firm that brings solutions to help companies and shareholders reach their business and financial
Stanford Federal Credit Union
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
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Stanford Federal Credit Union is a company that offers retail banking services.
Architect Partners LLC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Bank
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Architect Partners LLC deliver strategic advice and M&A execution to companies in the converging Internet, mobile and digital media sectors.
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