How we build this database
Fundraising Fox is a programmatically assembled database with editorial oversight. This page explains exactly how the data is collected, verified, and kept fresh.
Where the data comes from
Every record is assembled from public sources: regulatory filings (such as SEC Form ADV and Form D in the United States), official registries, open datasets, and — most importantly — investors' own websites. We never scrape sources that prohibit it, and we never republish text verbatim: descriptions and theses are rewritten factual summaries with the source attributed.
Provenance for every fact
Each fact in the database (a check size, a sector focus, a team member) is stored with the source it came from and the date we saw it. When sources disagree, the investor's own website wins over third-party data, and newer evidence wins over older. Profiles display when they were last verified.
Quality gates
A profile is only published once it clears a completeness bar — verified website, description, and at least one investment stage or sector. Lists are only published when enough qualifying firms exist to make them genuinely useful. Ambiguous matches between records go to human review instead of being merged automatically.
Freshness
Firm websites are re-crawled on a rolling schedule and regulatory sources are refreshed as they are published (daily for new fund filings, monthly for adviser data). When a person disappears from a firm's team page, we record the departure rather than deleting history.
Corrections
If you represent a firm and something is wrong on your profile, email corrections@fundraisingfox.com. Corrections are applied with priority over all automated sources.