Who's writing cheques
Last 90 daysEvery firm below is here because it was named in a round we collected — not because it filled in a profile. Ranked by how many separate companies it backed, which is the only claim the source material actually supports.
This is deliberately not a directory. Directories tell you a fund exists and who to email; several free ones already do that well. This tells you what a fund has been doing for the last quarter — which is the part that goes stale, and the part nobody keeps current.
3 firms have been named so far, none of them in more than one company. A firm appears here on its second cheque.
see the rounds themselves →How this is built
Twice a week we read the startup funding press, write one plain sentence about each company in our own words, and record the firms the report names as backing the round. That is the whole source: public announcements, each linked beside the company it describes so you can check it.
The unit is the company, not the round. The same raise is often reported twice, a day apart, sometimes with different figures — counting reports would inflate every number here. Rounds still described as rumoured are excluded entirely.
There is no money column, on purpose. When four firms are named in a $20m round, the public record does not say who put in what. Adding the round total to each of their names would invent a figure for all four. So this page counts cheques written, and leaves the size of them to the people who actually know.
Firms only.Where a report names an individual angel we leave them out — a fund's name is a public commercial fact, a person's is not. A firm also has to appear in 2 separate companies before it is listed at all.
It is a record of what was reported, not a verified register of who invested, and it is only as complete as the outlets we read. Plenty of rounds never name a backer, and plenty of investors never appear in the press at all.