How the RaiseHunt investor dataset is built

Profiles are assembled from public sources: company and fund websites, public professional profiles, public investment records and company registries. Records are cross-checked against portfolio and firm data before a profile is published, and a profile that cannot be corroborated is not published.

The dataset currently holds 135,000+ investor profiles and 31,462 investment firms. Not all of them get a public page: a profile with too little corroborated detail is deliberately left out of search rather than published thin.

A person and a firm are separate records. A person can be affiliated with one or more firms, and that affiliation carries a role.

This distinction decides how we word everything else. When a person has no investments recorded under their own name, their page says so and attributes the firm’s portfolio to the firm. A page will never present a firm’s deals as an individual’s track record, even where the person clearly works on them.

A known portfolio is the set of investments we can see in public records. It is a floor, not a total: an investor may well have backed companies that never appear publicly, and those are not counted here.

We hold no amounts and no dates for these investments. That is why a page says “known portfolio” rather than any phrasing that implies a complete or current picture.

An email badge means we hold an address for that person. It does not mean the address was confirmed to work: most of the time the check we run gets no answer from the receiving server, which tells us nothing either way. Addresses that bounced are dropped and never carry a badge. A badge is also not consent to be contacted.

Public pages show a masked form of an address and whether a contact is on file. The full value never leaves our backend and is only available inside the product to signed-in users.

Tags are derived from the investor’s or firm’s own public description and from the pattern of their known portfolio. They describe where an investor has been active in public records, not a mandate they have published.

Where a person’s tags are inherited from the firm they work at rather than from their own recorded investments, the page says so.

For a person, the location is where that person is based according to public sources. For a firm, it is where the firm’s team is concentrated, which is not the same as a registered headquarters. We do not hold registered-office data for firms and do not claim to.

In both cases location describes where the investor is, not where they invest. An investor listed in London may back companies anywhere.

The dataset is rebuilt periodically and the whole public layer is regenerated from that rebuild. The date shown at the foot of each page is the snapshot the page was generated from.

Between rebuilds a page does not change. If a person changes role or a firm changes focus, that is reflected at the next rebuild, not immediately.

This list is as important as everything above, and each line is a limit of the data rather than a stylistic choice:

• Not that anyone is investing right now. We hold no dates for any investment, so no page says an investor is active, currently funding, or writing cheques.
• No cheque sizes and no round sizes. We hold neither.
• No lead or follow role. We cannot tell from public records who led a round.
• No regulatory filings. Nothing here is derived from SEC or equivalent filings.
• No ranking of investors against each other. Ordering on list pages reflects how much corroborated detail a profile carries, not quality or likelihood of investing.

If something about you or your firm is wrong, or you would rather not appear here at all, write to us through the contact form with the address of the page. Include what is wrong, or say that you want the page removed.

A removal request takes the page out of the dataset at the next rebuild and keeps it out of later ones. We do not require you to create an account or prove anything beyond identifying the page.