What is on the graph, counted the hard way
How this is countedCandidates 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.How current each source is:
- SEC Form D filings through Oct 30, 2026
- Announced rounds through Nov 2, 2026
- Adviser filings (Form ADV, IAPD) through Oct 30, 2026
- Executive changes (8-K 5.02) through Oct 30, 2026
- Firm websites last read Nov 2, 2026
- Company websites last read Nov 2, 2026
- Public pension LP reports through Jun 30, 2026
Counts below recomputed today; that is not how recent the sources are.
Organizations
- on the graph
- 16,731
- confirmed venture managers
- 2,584
- probable
- 2,255
- candidates (not coverage)
- 11,485
- classified not VC (hidden)
- 278
- institutional VC
- 1,809
- micro VC
- 1,268
- seed fund managers
- 250
- multi-stage
- 488
- growth investors
- 56
- corporate venture
- 321
- accelerators and studios
- 148
- solo GPs
- 0
- angel and syndicate
- 196
- emerging managers (score 0.6+)
- 635
Funds
- vehicles
- 78,449
- with a vintage
- 61,923
- with an evidenced close or announced size
- 626
- with reported GAV (ADV)
- 64,111
- with Form D sold
- 55,631
- with a lifecycle state
- 66,514
- raising (first close, raise announced or active offering evidence)
- 1,855
- organizations with funds
- 5,567
- fund reporting rows (per filing)
- 361,892
People
- people
- 363,466
- investment professionals (current)
- 29,366
- partners
- 18,420
- with a verified or published email
- 3,489
Deals
- companies
- 156,721
- rounds
- 163,862
- rounds with an announced amount
- 16,226
- investor-company edges
- 113,080
- edges tied to a round
- 46,844
- edges with a partner attributed
- 18,061
- edges with lead/follow evidence
- 40,419
- edges with a fund attributed
- 247
- portfolio companies
- 53,307
- co-investor pairs
- 99,368
- recurring pairs (2+ deals)
- 9,247
- board relationships
- 164,949
- exits
- 760
Relationships
- LP commitments
- 1,795
- family office links
- 1,168
- cross-DFX links
- 14,488
Motion
- entities DFX added, 7 days
- 904
- investment edges DFX added, 7 days
- 78
- funds updated, 30 days
- 1,283
- people moves, 30 days
- 212
- profiles refreshed, 30 days
- 516
- profiles stale over 90 days
- 15,150
- open research tasks
- 61,472
- dated events
- 237,773
- observations
- 2,549,279
- failed ingest runs, 7 days
- 14
- observations held for rights
- 0
Ratios
- investments per organization with funds
- 20.31
- partner-attributed share of investments
- 16%
- lead/follow evidence share
- 36%
- investment professionals per confirmed manager
- 11.36
- funds per organization with funds
- 14.09
- co-investor pairs per organization
- 38.46
- verified contacts per investment professional
- 12%
- funds with a vintage
- 79%
- funds with an evidenced size
- 1%
By class
- Candidate
- 11,485
- Institutional venture firm
- 1,809
- Micro VC
- 1,268
- Multi-stage venture firm
- 488
- Corporate venture
- 321
- Private equity with venture activity
- 313
- Seed fund manager
- 250
- Angel fund or group
- 161
- University-affiliated venture
- 81
- Venture studio
- 78
- Accelerator
- 70
- Growth investor
- 56
- Government-backed venture investor
- 39
- Syndicate platform
- 35
What stands behind the graphWhere this comes fromEvery source is registered with its publisher, access mechanism, cadence and a rights determination before its first row is read. Competitor products are registered prohibited and are never ingested. What each individual feed is, and what it is read for, is not published; every fact on every page names where it came from and when.
Registered feeds
25
each with a rights determination
Publishing bodies
16
distinct, behind those feeds
Access mechanisms
9
bulk, API, portal, document
Source families
7
kinds of record read
Publishable
17
of 25; the rest never reach a page
What it reads
| Family | What it carries | Feeds |
|---|---|---|
| Federal regulator filings | What firms, funds and plans are required to tell a federal regulator, on the regulator's own schedule. | 11 |
| Firm and issuer disclosures | What an organisation publishes about itself: its own site, its reports, its plan and fund disclosures. | 7 |
| News and newswire | Dated announcements, used to corroborate and to date an event, never as the only witness to a fact. | 2 |
| DFX's own graph | Facts this system produced: resolved identities, typed relationships, detector output, labelled outcomes. | 2 |
| Federal program and statistical data | Federal programme registers and statistical series: who is funded, insured, assisted or measured. | 1 |
| State registries and regulators | Entity registrations, licences, liens and state-level dockets, jurisdiction by jurisdiction. | 1 |
| Licensed tooling | Bought under licence for verification work, never as a source of published facts. | 1 |
Under what rights
17Open7Restricted1Licensed
- Open
- public domain or an explicit open licence; facts publish
- Restricted
- read for discovery at most; nothing from it is stored as a published fact
- Licensed
- bought for internal verification work only
Of the 10 feeds that record a read, 60% were read in the last day, 70% in the last week and 90% in the last month. A feed is read on the cadence its publisher changes on, so a quarterly filing being a quarter old is the correct answer rather than a stale one.
Every source is registered with its publisher, access mechanism, cadence and a rights determination before its first row is read, and a source without a green determination never reaches a page. The registry itself is not published: which feeds exist, which answer, and which are worth reading is the work. What is published is the provenance of every individual claim, on the record it belongs to, and the shape of what stands behind it. Buyers running diligence get the registry under contract.