Funded DB (VC & accelerator portfolios)

Coverage

The 12 firms include Y Combinator (5,959), Techstars (5,588), and 500 Global (2,234), plus a16z, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Bessemer, NEA, Accel, Antler, First Round, and Index Ventures. Every company carries an AI investment thesis explaining why the capital went in.

See the public overview on the Funded DB landing page.

Where capital concentrates

• B2B SaaS - 3,968 companies.
• Consumer - 2,768.
• Fintech - 2,179.
• Healthcare - 1,914.
• AI infrastructure - 1,651.
• Developer tools - 1,281.

Why capital signal matters

Complaints tell you a problem exists; funding tells you which problems the smartest money has decided are worth solving at scale. Funded DB lets you read that decision directly. If a sector is dense with recent portfolio companies, investors have concluded the market is large enough and the timing is right.

Used well, it points you toward validated markets and away from spaces that look interesting but no serious capital is entering. Pair it with demand and supply data to triangulate: a strong idea usually shows documented pain, existing monetized supply, and active investor interest at once.

Searching Funded DB via MCP

search_funded_companies
get_funded_company
semantic_search_funded

Three MCP tools cover keyword search, single-company lookup, and semantic (vector) search across the portfolio.

• search_funded_companies - filter by keyword, sector, status, country, or founding year.
• get_funded_company - pull one company's full detail: AI investment thesis, risks, signals, founders, investors.
• semantic_search_funded - describe a concept and match funded companies by meaning rather than exact terms.