About Investor Shelf
Investor Shelf follows the funders of startups and businesses: venture capital firms, business angels and their networks, private equity, private and venture debt, banks that lend to companies, crowdinvesting and crowdfunding platforms and public funding agencies, worldwide, with reports in every language summarised in English.
It brings together two things founders, investors and analysts need: the reports these funders and the people who study them publish, and a directory of the funders themselves.
Reports
A crawler visits public publication pages of funders, consultancies, associations, data providers, regulators and universities, respecting each site's robots.txt and a slow crawl rate. Documents are read page by page. Summaries, key insights and figures are generated automatically, and every figure shown is checked against the page it cites. When we are not sure, we show nothing. Reports about funding and investment come first; broader financial-industry and policy reports stay in the library.
Funder directory
Each profile is built from the funder's own website: what they fund, stages, sectors, B2B or B2C focus and, when they state it, ticket size. Contact details are only those the funder publishes itself, and are part of Pro.
Publishers and funders
We host full documents only when their licence allows it. Otherwise we show a summary, short excerpts and a link to the original. Publishers and funders can request a correction or removal at any time; requests are handled within 48 hours.