Methodology & data

BeaconStoneVC is a free, structured record of venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies, 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 on its public portfolio page, with stage and sector tags where available.
• Portfolio-company people — for a subset of portfolio companies, the people the company publicly lists on its own 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 a change becomes a record. Where a firm doesn’t 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 a company is “now listed” or “no longer listed,” it means we observed that in a recent read of the public record.

Labels such as now listed, no longer listed, marked exited, and team addition / departure summarise detected changes in public listings — they do not claim direct confirmation of an investment, an exit, an employment event, or the date any of those happened. Timestamps reflect when BeaconStoneVC detected a change, not necessarily when the underlying real-world event occurred.

A company can disappear from a listing for reasons that have nothing to do with an investment ending — a website redesign, a page reorganisation, an outage, or an editorial choice. An automated step attempts to set these aside, but it is imperfect and some may remain. Treat every row as “this is what the page showed, and when we saw it change,” and verify against primary sources before acting on it.

People and privacy

The activity feed on this site describes team changes at a level of detail that matches what firms already publish about themselves — and departures are described without naming the individual. The downloadable dataset is companies-only: data about named individuals (VC team members and portfolio-company staff) is intentionally excluded from the machine-readable export.

Coverage & freshness

We cover a curated set of venture ecosystems where public VC information is fragmented across each firm — heaviest in the UK and Singapore. New firms are added on a recurring basis and 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. Pipelines run on a recurring schedule, not in real time.

Funds we no longer track

Sometimes we stop tracking a fund — its site goes dark, it’s redesigned beyond structured collection, or we retire it deliberately. When that happens the fund’s portfolio and team stop updating: what we hold for it is a frozen last snapshot from when we stopped, not a current view. In the activity feed above, any change at such a fund carries a “no longer tracked” tag. In the machine-readable dataset, the per-VC coverage file (vc_coverage.csv) marks these funds with a Current Status of permanently_removed (retired) or source_down (site currently unreachable).

Corrections

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

License & disclaimer

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

This dataset is provided “as is,” with no warranty of any kind, and is not investment, financial, legal, or other professional advice. It is an automated, observational record of what public web pages showed and when a change was detected. It may contain errors, including false positives. Do not rely on it as a statement of fact about any company or firm; verify against authoritative sources before acting.