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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.
Firms / Dark Pool Capital
Dark Pool Capital
Dark Pool Capital (DPC) invests in late-stage direct secondaries in enduring technology companies 1 to 4 years from IPO.
venture manager, reported GAV $63M across 3 vehicles
Importance
20
moderate
Active deployment
51
elevated
Emerging
94
high
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
39
elevated
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- 415-318-6560adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- https://www.darkpoolcap.com/
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- private fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 26, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 3 (3 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $63.3Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business email
- contact@darkpoolcap.comdarkpoolcap.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 415-318-6560adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
7 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- growth
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 71%Other Technology 29%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 7
Funds and vehicles
3 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eucalyptus Capital LLC | Fund | 2024 form d first sale | Early deployment | $500,000 Sep 13, 2026 | 2 | $1.0M of $1.0M | Dec 12, 2025 |
| DPC Fund B LLC | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $50.0M Sep 13, 2026 | 2 | unknown | unknown |
| DPC Fund a LLC | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $12.8M Sep 13, 2026 | 2 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
2 current, 0 departed
Eve Denton
General partnerCo-Founder & General Partner
Jay Aurora
General partnerCo-Founder & General Partner
Investments on record
7 edges, 7 companies, 0 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
36 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Alkeon Capital Management, LLC 2 shared · recurringInterplay Ventures Early Stage Management LLC 2 shared · recurringManhattan West Asset Management, LLC 2 shared · recurringIndex Ventures Sa 2 shared · recurringMatrix 2 shared · recurringG Squared Equity LLC 1 shared · one timeEastlink Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeInstitutional Venture 1 shared · one timeAlpha Partners Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeDeepwater Asset Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeClearsky Advisors LLC 1 shared · one timeA-Star Partners, LLC 1 shared · one time5y Capital Management Limited 1 shared · one timeCross Creek Advisors, LLC 1 shared · one timeHabitat Partners Management LLC 1 shared · one timeBlackbird Ventures Pty Ltd. 1 shared · one timeSpider Capital 1 shared · one timeFelicis Ventures 1 shared · one timeAmplify Partners 1 shared · one timeNEA: New Enterprise Associates 1 shared · one timeSoma Capital Management LLC 1 shared · one timeParadigm Operations LP 1 shared · one time137 Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeNext Legacy Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeLUX Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeBase Partners 1 shared · one timeCNK Equity Partners I, LLC 1 shared · one timeInterwest Partners 1 shared · one timePathlight Management III, LLC 1 shared · one timeCRV, LLC 1 shared · one timeActivant Capital Group LLC 1 shared · one timeA.capital Ventures 1 shared · one timeBedrock Fund Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeAvenir Management Company, LLC 1 shared · one timeSection Partners 1 shared · one timeHuman Capital 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
2 disclosed
Timeline
4 dated events
- Sep 15, 2026Dark Pool Capital: MICRO_VC -> INSTITUTIONAL_VC (venture manager, reported GAV $63M across 3 vehicles)Classification changedClassificationInferenceno URL
- Sep 13, 2026Dark Pool Capital: MICRO_VC -> INSTITUTIONAL_VC (venture manager, reported GAV $50M across 2 vehicles)Classification changedClassificationInferenceno URL
- Sep 12, 2026Dark Pool Capital: INSTITUTIONAL_VC -> MICRO_VC (venture manager, reported GAV $0.5M across 1 vehicles)Classification changedClassificationInferenceno URL
- Mar 26, 2026Dark Pool Capital appears on the SEC adviser roster (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers)
Classification history
- Sep 15, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $63M across 3 vehicles
- Sep 13, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $0.5M across 1 vehicles
- Sep 13, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $50M across 2 vehicles
- Sep 13, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $0.5M across 1 vehicles
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $50M across 2 vehicles
Evidence
23 observations from 3 sources
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
| Fact | Value | Effective | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why admitted | vc_funds_reported | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| SEC exemption claimed | private_fund_adviser | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| SEC adviser type | exempt_reporting_adviser | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2026-03-26 | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Adv pdf loaded | adv-pdf-1 | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | IAPD Form ADV Part 1 PDF per firm (current filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) and Schedule A) |
| SEC status | ERA - Active | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| SEC status effective | 2026-03-26 | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Business phone | 415-318-6560 | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Description | Dark Pool Capital (DPC) invests in late-stage direct secondaries in enduring technology companies 1 to 4 years from IPO. “meta description” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Description | Dark Pool Capital (DPC) invests in late-stage direct secondaries in enduring technology companies 1 to 4 years from IPO. “meta description” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Portfolio page | https://www.darkpoolcap.com/portfolio “7 entries read” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Portfolio page | https://www.darkpoolcap.com/portfolio “7 entries read” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Private funds reported | 3 | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $63.3M | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Stated stages | growth “stage words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Stated stages | growth “stage words on the home page” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Team page | https://www.darkpoolcap.com/leadership “2 name/title pairs read” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Team page | https://www.darkpoolcap.com/leadership “2 name/title pairs read” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Venture funds reported | 3 | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Website | https://www.darkpoolcap.com/ | Mar 26, 2026 | Fact | SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) |
| Site title | Dark Pool Capital - Late-Stage Direct Secondaries Investment Firm “title tag” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Site title | Dark Pool Capital - Late-Stage Direct Secondaries Investment Firm “title tag” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |