/

Investors / backtrace / Compare with Talis Capital

backtrace vs Talis Capital

backtrace lists 14 portfolio companies and has joined 1 funding round; Talis Capital lists 36 companies and has joined 1 round. backtrace comes in most often at Seed (100% of its entries). 1 company is on both portfolios, among them Seqera.

14Portfolio companies36
1Funding rounds joined1
0Rounds led0
0Rounds, last 12 months1
$5M to $20MTypical round it comes in at$5M to $20M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
Show as a table
backtrace and Talis Capital, head to head
backtraceTalis Capital
Portfolio companies1436
Funding rounds joined11
Rounds led00
Rounds, last 12 months01
Typical round it comes in at$5M to $20M$5M to $20M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed100%0%
Series A0%0%
Series B0%0%
Growth0%0%

backtraceTalis Capital

Show as a table
Entry stages of backtrace and Talis Capital, share of entries
backtraceTalis Capital
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed100%0%
Series A0%0%
Series B0%0%
Growth0%0%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning29%13%
Cybersecurity25%0%
Enterprise Software13%8%
Fintech13%10%
Healthcare & Biotech8%12%
Legal & Compliance0%8%

backtraceTalis Capital

Show as a table
Themes of backtrace and Talis Capital, share of checked companies
backtraceTalis Capital
AI & Machine Learning29%13%
Cybersecurity25%0%
Enterprise Software13%8%
Fintech13%10%
Healthcare & Biotech8%12%
Legal & Compliance0%8%

Companies both back

1

Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded

Free account · no card

Compare backtrace and Talis Capital as data

Pull both portfolios and every co-investor through one API key or MCP, and lay up to 20 firms side by side with POST /v1/overlap. A free account adds Ask AI searches and alerts when either firm adds a company.

Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in
  • Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
  • Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
  • API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
  • AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
VCinfo API
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/backtrace.vc/portfolio

# also
GET /v1/firms/taliscapital.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/backtrace.vc/coinvestors
The same data as an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other AI tools. Set up MCP · Docs · Pricing