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Venture Capital Intelligence
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 / The Data Tribe, LLC
The Data Tribe, LLC
Institutional venture firm · probableFulton, MDdatatribe.comSEC exempt reporting adviserpart of DataTribe
One of 3 advisers that share datatribe.com; the firm is DataTribe. Datatribe Opportunities Management, LLC, Datatribe Foundry, LLC. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
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venture manager, reported GAV $94M across 2 vehicles
Importance
28
moderate
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
12
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Fulton, MDadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 8110 MAPLE LAWN BLVD, SUITE 200, Fulton, MD, 20759adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 240-630-3715adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- https://datatribe.com/
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 31, 2021
- Private funds reported
- 2 (2 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $94.2Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 240-630-3715adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
12 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- cybersecurity
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- 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 92%Other Technology 8%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 12
Funds and vehicles
2 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Data Tribe II, LLC | Fund | 2019 form d first sale | Mature | $31.9M Mar 31, 2021 | 33 | $3.1M of $50.0M | Feb 22, 2019 |
| The Data Tribe I, LLC | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $62.3M Mar 31, 2021 | 59 | 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
18 current, 0 departed
David Whalen
AnalystAnalyst
Michael Anthony Janke
Founder or executiveFounder Manager · since Mar 1, 2021
Robert Richard Ackerman
Founder or executiveFounder Manager · since Mar 1, 2021
Steven Charles Witt
Founder or executiveFounder Manager · since Mar 1, 2021
Bob Ackerman
Managing partnerCo-Founder & Managing Partner
Mike Janke
Managing partnerCo-Founder & Managing Partner
Cyber Innovation Conference
OtherPortfolio
Andy Hunn
PartnerPartner, Product Strategy
John Liam Funge
PartnerManaging Director · since Mar 1, 2021
Leo Scott
PartnerManaging Director
Maurice Boissiere
PartnerPartner, Customer Success
Rob Ackerman
PartnerManaging Director
Tony Surak
PartnerPartner, GTM
Matt Moran
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer
Veronica Gilbert
Platform and operationsExecutive Assistant & Office Manager
John Funge
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Rob Joyce
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Rob Lee
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Investments on record
12 edges, 12 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
4 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
3 dated events
- Sep 13, 2026Vigilant Ops: acquired by C2A Security on or before 2026-09-13 (no date published), per Datatribe Foundry, LLC's portfolio page and 1 more
- Jan 1, 2020John Liam Funge joined Schedule A of The Data Tribe, LLC as Executive Officer
- Apr 9, 2019The Data Tribe, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $94M across 2 vehicles
Evidence
22 observations from 2 sources