Investor database: sources and your rights
This page explains where the data in our investor database comes from, what we do with it, and how to have your record corrected or removed. If you are listed and want out, the last section is the one you need.
Where the data comes from
The database is assembled from several kinds of source: licensed commercial datasets of venture funds, angel networks, accelerators and corporate investors; public regulatory filings; the firms' own websites; and public professional profiles. Nothing here is taken from private correspondence, from closed communities, or from anyone's inbox.
This is continuous work, done in large part by hand. We keep reviewing new sources, comparing what they say against each other, correcting what we find wrong and dropping what we can no longer stand behind. A directory of this kind is never finished, and we would rather say that plainly than imply a completeness we do not have.
Where the activity signals come from
Separately from the directory, we record dated events: a fund filing a new fund with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (Form D), a new company appearing on a fund's own portfolio page, a new person on its team page, and funding news from public feeds. Every event stores the source link, a verbatim quote and the date; if there is nothing to link to, we do not publish it. Fund websites are fetched by a crawler identifying itself as EnbrigSignals and pointing at this page — if you would rather we did not fetch yours, say so and we will stop.
What we hold
Information about the firm — what it invests in, at what stage, where it is based, and how to approach it — together with the names and roles of the people at the firm who make or influence investment decisions, and their professional contact details at that firm.
Everything we hold is professional: a person appears here in their working capacity at a named firm, and the addresses are the ones that firm publishes or uses for business. We do not collect private addresses, personal phone numbers, home addresses, or anything about anyone's life outside their job.
Why we process it, and on what basis
We process it to provide a business directory that helps founders find investors whose stated focus matches their company. Our basis is legitimate interest: connecting companies seeking funding with professionals whose stated business is to provide it. We have documented that assessment and will share it on request. The data is not used for profiling or automated decision-making.
What we do not claim
We do not claim the records are verified. No verification was carried out, and each record carries a confidence level rather than a verification stamp. Free preview rows never contain contact details — those fields are absent from the page and from the API response, not hidden by styling.
What buyers may and may not do
The export is licensed for the buyer's own use in identifying and approaching investors. Reselling it, redistributing it, or using it for bulk unsolicited mail without an independent lawful basis of the buyer's own is not permitted. This is set out in the terms of service.
Who else sees it
Buyers and subscribers, under the terms below. Beyond them, we use a small number of service providers under contract — hosting, email delivery, payment processing, and business-data providers we use to check that a professional contact detail is still current. Some of them operate outside the European Economic Area, and those transfers rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. We do not sell the data to advertisers and we do not use it to build profiles of individuals.
How long we keep it
A record stays while the firm is active and the entry is still useful for the purpose above. We review the database on a rolling basis and drop entries we can no longer substantiate. If you ask for removal we keep only the minimum needed to honour that request — enough to recognise the entry and not re-add it from a later source.
Removing or correcting your record
Write to [email protected] from the address in the record, or from any address at the same domain, and say which firm you mean. We remove the record from the preview and from every future export, and we do not re-add it if the same entry appears in a later source. You may also ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, ask us to restrict or object to the processing, or ask for it in a portable form. We answer within one month. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may complain to your national data protection authority.