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ex/ante vs Illuminate Financial
ex/ante lists 22 portfolio companies and has joined 5 funding rounds; Illuminate Financial lists 52 companies and has joined 15 rounds. ex/ante comes in most often at Seed (100% of its entries), Illuminate Financial comes in most often at Series A (54% of its entries). 1 company is on both portfolios, among them Reality Defender.
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| ex/ante | Illuminate Financial | |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio companies | 22 | 52 |
| Funding rounds joined | 5 | 15 |
| Rounds led | 0 | 4 |
| Rounds, last 12 months | 3 | 10 |
| Typical round it comes in at | $5M to $20M | $20M to $100M |
| Sites no longer answering | 0% | 0% |
Where they come in
share of entries by stageex/anteIlluminate Financial
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| ex/ante | Illuminate Financial | |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% | 0% |
| Seed | 100% | 0% |
| Series A | 0% | 54% |
| Series B | 0% | 39% |
| Growth | 0% | 8% |
Themes
share of checked companiesex/anteIlluminate Financial
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| ex/ante | Illuminate Financial | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 7% | 47% |
| Cybersecurity | 29% | 4% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 18% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 0% | 7% |
| Education | 7% | 0% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 0% |
Companies both back
1Shared 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
Compare ex/ante and Illuminate Financial 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
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/buildexante.com/portfolio
# also
GET /v1/firms/illuminatefinancial.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/buildexante.com/coinvestors