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Tracking Venture Capital Firms and their Investment Activity

  • March 25, 2013
  • March 25, 2013

No more manual, inefficient tracking of investment firms. 4 quick steps that take less than 27 seconds and you're all set.

If you are a VC who wants to track your investment peers or someone in biz dev looking to stay on top of deals made by certain investors or someone who needs to know what deals certain investors are making, you can set up a personalized feed to track these investors. It’ll take 27 seconds or less with the 4-steps shown below.

Example

You’d like to know any new investments made by the following six investors.

  1. Accel Partners
  2. Sequoia Capital
  3. Greylock
  4. Andreessen Horowitz
  5. Kleiner Perkins
  6. General Catalyst

Step 1 – Go To Deal Search

After logging in, click Deal Search from the top navigation menu (shown below).

Step 2 – Enter the Investors You Wish to Track and Click the “See Results” Button

The left side of Deal Search allows you to enter your filtering criteria.  In this case, you’ll just scroll down and enter the 6 investors into the Participating Investors section and then hit the See Results button at the top of the filtering section.

You will then see a list of 2500+ financings these 6 investors have participated in.  And This is where you can create the feed and schedule the delivery of any new deals made by any of these 6 investors.

Step 3 – Click “Save this Search” Above the Results
Above the 2500+ results that this search generates, you’ll see a “Save this Search” selection.  Click that and you will get the following (Step 4).
Step 4 – Name and Schedule the Search

Once you’ve hit “Save this Search”, you’ll get the following selection box open.  Name your search and then schedule it by choosing to receive it weekly or monthly or on specific days.  In this case, you’ve scheduled to receive any new deals every Tuesday and Thursday and so on those days, you’ll get an Excel file directly to your email with any new deals that any of these 6 investors have participated in.  After hitting confirm, you can sit back and enjoy all the time you’re not spending trying to pull this data from some other system or tracking it manually.

Note: You can use the same capabilities to create a feed for M&A activity or to track financing activity in a particular geography or industry. Don’t hesitate to reach out if we can help you set up a feed.