Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.

Coverage

What is on the graph, counted the hard way

Refreshed today. Candidates are listed apart and are not coverage. A fund with a vintage is not a fund with a size. A person is an investment professional only when a title says so.

Organizations
on the graph
7,172
confirmed venture managers
2,563
probable
2,601
candidates (not coverage)
1,886
classified not VC (hidden)
109
institutional VC
1,751
micro VC
1,340
seed fund managers
283
multi-stage
437
growth investors
57
corporate venture
265
accelerators and studios
79
solo GPs
0
angel and syndicate
135
emerging managers (score 0.6+)
672
Funds
vehicles
71,074
with a vintage
58,857
with an evidenced close or announced size
27
with reported GAV (ADV)
53,552
with Form D sold
52,341
with a lifecycle state
63,259
raising (first close, raise announced or active offering evidence)
1,587
organizations with funds
4,963
fund reporting rows (per filing)
312,748
People
people
108,223
investment professionals (current)
23,340
partners
15,135
with a verified or published email
1,823
Deals
companies
44,301
rounds
23,235
rounds with an announced amount
1,372
investor-company edges
41,879
edges tied to a round
4,042
edges with a partner attributed
1,046
edges with lead/follow evidence
4,114
edges with a fund attributed
92
portfolio companies
28,732
co-investor pairs
21,409
recurring pairs (2+ deals)
1,766
board relationships
28,588
exits
473
Relationships
LP commitments
1,595
family office links
610
cross-DFX links
6,175
Motion
new entities, 7 days
251,667
new investment edges, 7 days
41,879
funds updated, 30 days
71,074
people moves, 30 days
298
profiles refreshed, 30 days
7,172
profiles stale over 90 days
0
open research tasks
52,246
dated events
178,173
observations
1,702,167
failed ingest runs, 7 days
14
observations held for rights
0
Ratios
investments per organization with funds
8.44
partner-attributed share of investments
2%
lead/follow evidence share
10%
investment professionals per confirmed manager
9.11
funds per organization with funds
14.32
co-investor pairs per organization
8.35
verified contacts per investment professional
8%
funds with a vintage
83%
funds with an evidenced size
0%
By class
Candidate
360
Institutional venture firm
217
Micro VC
183
Private equity with venture activity
81
Multi-stage venture firm
56
Seed fund manager
39
Corporate venture
30
Syndicate platform
8
Growth investor
7
Angel fund or group
6
Venture studio
4
Government-backed venture investor
4
University-affiliated venture
3
Accelerator
2
Source atlas

Every source with its rights determination, cadence and last success. Competitor products are benchmarks and are never ingested; they do not appear here because the read plane refuses prohibited sources.

SourceTypeRightsCadenceLast successWhat it contributes
Portfolio company websites (about, investors, press pages)
each company · terms
web · htmlrestricted1440hSep 17, 2026Corroborates the investor list from the company side; founders and executives; the description that feeds sector classification.
DFX analyst research (cited claims with URL and quote)
DFX Intelligence
manual_research · searchopenmanualneverGold profiles, adjudications, merges with a cited basis, LP commitments from public pension and endowment materials.
Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
each organization · terms
web · htmlrestricted720hSep 17, 2026The stated thesis (sectors, stages, check size, geography), the team with titles (the partner-level layer), the portfolio (investor -> company edges, sometimes with the partner and the stage), news of new funds and hires. Page changes over time are the thesis and people change tape.
Hunter.io email finder and verifier
Hunter Web Services · terms
licensed · apilicensed720h (off)neverVerified business email for investment professionals already on the graph. Never a guess.
Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS)
Business Wire / PR Newswire / GlobeNewswire · terms
news · rssrestricted6hSep 17, 2026The reverse discovery engine: a financing announcement names the company, the round, the amount, the lead, the other investors, the sponsoring partner (in the quote) and the board appointment. Every unknown investor becomes a candidate; every co-appearance is a co-investment edge.
Public pension and endowment private-markets disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS, WSIB, NYSCRF, Texas TRS, UTIMCO ...)
each plan
dataset · htmlopen2160hSep 14, 2026LP -> FUND commitments with vintage, commitment and (often) called/distributed/NAV, from the LP's own report: the only public source of fund-level performance for venture funds.
SEC EDGAR full-text search and company facts (Form D issuers, ADV CIKs, 13D/G)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms
filing · apiopen24h (off)neverPer-issuer filing history for a company or fund already on the graph; new Form D filings between quarterly data set drops.
SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms
filing · bulk_fileopen720hSep 12, 2026The current venture manager universe from the manager's own sworn filing: every exempt reporting adviser claiming the venture capital fund adviser exemption (Item 2.B(1)/(3)), every private-fund adviser (2.B(2)) whose name reads venture, and every registered adviser that reports venture capital funds. Legal name, CRD, CIK, main office, phone, website, private fund count and gross assets. Never fund size, never dry powder.
SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms
filing · bulk_fileopen8760hSep 13, 2026The fund lifecycle tape: 42,744 venture capital funds reported by exempt advisers and 5,753 by registered advisers, each with gross asset value and owner count on EVERY annual filing since 2011 (first appearance = formation, GAV trajectory = deployment, disappearance = wound down). Schedule A/B gives owners, officers and control persons with the month the role began; Schedule D 1.I websites; 1.B other names; 7.A related advisers.
IAPD Form ADV Part 1 PDF per firm (current filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) and Schedule A)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms
filing · pdfopen2160hSep 17, 2026The 2025+ continuation of the fund tape and the owner/officer schedule, one PDF per CRD.
SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms
filing · bulk_fileopen168hSep 16, 2026Two engines in one file. (1) Every pooled fund that declares itself a Venture Capital Fund (2,000 to 2,500 new filings a quarter): the vehicle, offering amount, amount sold, first sale date, investor count, related persons (the GP entity and the partners who sign), placement agents. (2) Every operating company in a technology or health industry group selling equity: a financing event with amount sold and date, the company's own officers and directors (which is where investor board seats surface). Offering amount is never capital raised; amount sold is what was sold as of the filing.
SEC IAPD daily compilation report (registered + exempt reporting advisers) and Form ADV Part 1 PDFs
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms
filing · bulk_fileopen12hSep 17, 2026A new venture manager the day after its IAPD status date, admitted by the monthly roster's own rule (venture capital fund adviser exemption, or a venture capital fund on Schedule D 7.B.(1) read from the Form ADV PDF). Shared job with the private equity graph.