Methodology & data

BeaconStoneVC is a free, structured record of 520 venture-capital firms and 27,439 portfolio companies across 36 markets, compiled entirely from public sources and compared run after run. This page documents how the data is collected, what it does and doesn’t claim, and how to correct it.

What we compile

Within the markets it covers, BeaconStoneVC compiles three kinds of record from public sources:

• VC firm people — who each firm publicly lists on its team, with title, location, and LinkedIn where available.
• Portfolio companies — every company a fund lists in its public portfolio, with stage and sector tags where available.
• Portfolio-company people — for a subset of portfolio companies (densest in the UK), the people the company publicly lists on its team.

How it’s collected

Each VC firm has its own structured collection process, tailored to how that firm publishes. Collectors run on a recurring schedule (not in real time), normalise results into a common shape, compare them against the previous snapshot, and corroborate before changes become records. Where a firm doesn’t publicly publish a structured team or portfolio at all, we record that as a rejection rather than fabricating coverage.

What we observe vs what we claim

All data is based on publicly available information published by each VC firm and portfolio company. When we report that someone is “now listed” or that a company was “added,” it means we observed that in a recent read of the public record. Labels such as now listed, no longer listed, portfolio added, and portfolio removed summarise detected changes in public listings — they do not claim direct confirmation of employment events, investment timing, or transaction dates. Timestamps reflect when BeaconStoneVC detected a change, not necessarily the date the underlying real-world change happened.

Coverage

A curated set of venture ecosystems where public VC information is fragmented across each firm — currently 520 firms across 36 markets, heaviest in the UK and Singapore. New firms are added on a recurring basis, vetted against the same coverage criteria; a meaningful share of evaluated firms don’t pass (logo-only portfolio grids, dynamic filter UIs that defeat structured collection, expired SSL, or no public team listing at all), and we keep a record of those rejections.

Freshness

Pipelines run on a recurring schedule, not in real time. Most recent run: July 10, 2026. The live coverage breakdown by market is on the About page.

Corrections

If a person, company, categorisation, or change looks wrong, it can be disputed — see the contact page. Corrections are applied to the public record on the next run.

License

The underlying facts are drawn from information each firm publishes openly. The compiled, structured dataset is made available under CC BY 4.0.