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Pillar vs The Venture Dept.
Pillar lists 69 portfolio companies and has joined 15 funding rounds; The Venture Dept. lists 27 companies and has joined 4 rounds. Pillar comes in most often at Seed (73% of its entries), The Venture Dept. comes in most often at Seed (100% of its entries). 1 company is on both portfolios, among them bridge.xyz.
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| Pillar | The Venture Dept. | |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio companies | 69 | 27 |
| Funding rounds joined | 15 | 4 |
| Rounds led | 4 | 0 |
| Rounds, last 12 months | 5 | 3 |
| Typical round it comes in at | $5M to $20M | $1M to $5M |
| Sites no longer answering | 0% | 0% |
Where they come in
share of entries by stagePillarThe Venture Dept.
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| Pillar | The Venture Dept. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% | 0% |
| Seed | 73% | 100% |
| Series A | 27% | 0% |
| Series B | 0% | 0% |
| Growth | 0% | 0% |
Themes
share of checked companiesPillarThe Venture Dept.
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| Pillar | The Venture Dept. | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 8% | 66% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 22% | 0% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 0% | 14% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 0% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 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 Pillar and The Venture Dept. 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/pillar.vc/portfolio
# also
GET /v1/firms/theventuredept.vc/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/pillar.vc/coinvestors