Data sources & evidence grading
Four independent channels, always kept apart, so every portfolio link and fund record tells you how strong it is.
The investor's own site
Portfolio pages, thesis and team, read directly from each firm's website. This is what makes an investor a record, and what its stated stages and sectors come from.
Funding rounds
Rounds that name the investor, by Fundup AI. They confirm portfolio links, add companies a firm does not list, and show the stage it actually came in at.
Public fund registers
SEC Form D, UK Companies House PFLPs, ESMA EuVECA, SEBI, MAS, SPK, CVM and business.gov.au filings that record newly raised venture funds.
The company's own site
Every portfolio company is checked at its own domain, again and again, so dead links, lapsed domains and acquisitions show up instead of lingering.
How a portfolio link gets its level
confidence & sourceconfidence: verified. The company is listed on the investor's own portfolio page, and an independent funding round names the investor.confidence: declared. The company is listed on the investor's own public portfolio page.source: funding_round. A funding round names the investor, even though its site does not list the company. Many investors publish only a few logos.Stated next to observed
thesis vs. roundsStated stages and sectors are what an investor says about itself. Observed stages come from the first round that names the investor in each company, and observed sectors from the companies' own sites. When the two drift apart, with at least five companies to go on, the profile says so.
Kept current
scheduled re-verificationSites are read again on a schedule. A company counts as added when it appears on a portfolio page VCinfo already watches, and as removed only after two reads in a row miss it. A page that changes more than half its list at once is held for a second look. A company site that moves to a new address under its own name keeps its record and gains the new address. One that lands on a site with another name is noted as a possible exit, never as a confirmed one, and a domain that now sends visitors to gambling pages is taken off the list.