/

Investors / byFounders / Compare with Five Elms Capital

byFounders vs Five Elms Capital

byFounders lists 58 portfolio companies and has joined 25 funding rounds; Five Elms Capital lists 68 companies and has joined 12 rounds. byFounders comes in most often at Seed (55% of its entries), Five Elms Capital comes in most often at Series A (40% of its entries). 1 company is on both portfolios, among them Digitail.

58Portfolio companies68
25Funding rounds joined12
12Rounds led12
14Rounds, last 12 months7
$1M to $5MTypical round it comes in at$20M to $100M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
Show as a table
byFounders and Five Elms Capital, head to head
byFoundersFive Elms Capital
Portfolio companies5868
Funding rounds joined2512
Rounds led1212
Rounds, last 12 months147
Typical round it comes in at$1M to $5M$20M to $100M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed20%0%
Seed55%0%
Series A20%40%
Series B5%30%
Growth0%30%

byFoundersFive Elms Capital

Show as a table
Entry stages of byFounders and Five Elms Capital, share of entries
byFoundersFive Elms Capital
Pre-seed20%0%
Seed55%0%
Series A20%40%
Series B5%30%
Growth0%30%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning20%7%
Enterprise Software5%15%
Education6%14%
Healthcare & Biotech9%12%
E-commerce & Marketplaces8%12%
Fintech9%0%

byFoundersFive Elms Capital

Show as a table
Themes of byFounders and Five Elms Capital, share of checked companies
byFoundersFive Elms Capital
AI & Machine Learning20%7%
Enterprise Software5%15%
Education6%14%
Healthcare & Biotech9%12%
E-commerce & Marketplaces8%12%
Fintech9%0%

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 byFounders and Five Elms 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/byfounders.vc/portfolio

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