The problem
Every VC firm has a website that describes their investment thesis. It is almost always a lie of omission. The real thesis is whatever Form Ds get filed in Washington, whatever partners quietly leave for new firms, whatever sector allocation drifts across four quarters of deal attribution.
An emerging manager trying to benchmark themselves against Accel. An angel trying to figure out which VC actually writes checks in their sector. A family office evaluating whether to allocate to a fund manager. All of them ask the same question: what is this fund actually doing? And all of them answer it by reading the fund’s marketing copy or by paying PitchBook $30,000 a year.
The data is public. It has always been public. The SEC publishes every private round via Form D. TechCrunch covers every major raise. LinkedIn shows every partner move. What has been missing is a tool that watches all of it, attributes it to the fund, and surfaces the signal.
That is not a technology problem. The technology exists. It is a product problem. The product nobody bothered to build for the emerging managers, angels, family offices, and founders who need it most.
What we are building
Brevoir tracks 50+ active VC funds globally. Every Sunday, we run 6 jobs across the fund registry: Form D discovery for US rounds, Claude-powered web research for international color, partner-roster refresh, signal detection (fundraise, new partner, thesis shift, portfolio exit), analytics recomputation (rolling cadence, co-investment graph), and per-fund AI brief generation.
The output is a Bloomberg-quality terminal: home dashboard, searchable registry, 7-tab fund profiles (deals, partners, thesis shift, co-investment network, signals, predicted next moves), Fund Finder for natural-language matching, and a twice-weekly Fund Digest personalized to every user’s tracked funds.
Paired with workflow features (watchlist, AI Scout, AI Diligence, Deck Analysis, LP Reports, Discover marketplace), Brevoir is the full research + execution stack for a modern private-market investor.
PitchBook is excellent for deep historical company data. Crunchbase is great for basic lookups. The Venture Codex does fund research for US-only retrospective data. We are building the global, predictive, workflow-integrated fund intelligence platform for everyone else.
Why this matters
Information asymmetry in private markets is not a bug. It is the business model. The entire industry has been built on the premise that some people know things other people do not, and the people who know have no incentive to share. Access to intelligence has been gated by fund size, network proximity, and willingness to pay enterprise pricing.
Public markets got democratized a decade ago. Real-time data, free trades, institutional-grade analytics for everyone. Private markets are next. The only question is who builds the infrastructure.
What I believe
- 01Every active VC fund leaves a public trail. Form Ds, press releases, LinkedIn, X. The trail just needs a tool that reads it.
- 02Fund intelligence beats fund marketing. What a VC actually invests in matters more than what their website says.
- 03Every investor deserves Bloomberg-grade research tooling, not just the ones paying $30,000 a year for PitchBook.
- 04Source attribution and confidence scoring should be mandatory. If you cannot show where the data came from, it is not intelligence. It is opinion.
- 05Depth over breadth. Knowing 50 funds deeply is more valuable than knowing 30 million companies shallowly.