Investors / First Cheque / Compare with Upsparks Capital
First Cheque vs Upsparks Capital
First Cheque lists 92 portfolio companies and has joined 4 funding rounds; Upsparks Capital lists 58 companies and has joined 0 rounds. First Cheque comes in most often at Seed (75% of its entries). 6 companies are on both portfolios, among them Bitespeed, Brysk and Customfit.ai.
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| First Cheque | Upsparks Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio companies | 92 | 58 |
| Funding rounds joined | 4 | 0 |
| Rounds led | 2 | 0 |
| Rounds, last 12 months | 4 | 0 |
| Typical round it comes in at | $1M to $5M | n/a |
| Sites no longer answering | 0% | 0% |
Where they come in
share of entries by stageFirst ChequeUpsparks Capital
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| First Cheque | Upsparks Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 25% | 0% |
| Seed | 75% | 0% |
| Series A | 0% | 0% |
| Series B | 0% | 0% |
| Growth | 0% | 0% |
Themes
share of checked companiesFirst ChequeUpsparks Capital
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| First Cheque | Upsparks Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 20% |
| Fintech | 17% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 11% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 10% | 10% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 5% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 8% |
Companies both back
6Shared 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 First Cheque and Upsparks 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.
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- 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/firstcheque.vc/portfolio
# also
GET /v1/firms/upsparks.vc/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/firstcheque.vc/coinvestors