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What is the Investor Database?

A Complete View of Global Capital Activity

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Written by Marco Squarci
Updated over 3 months ago

Specter’s Investor Database covers 250,000+ investment entities including VC funds, PE firms, angel investors, family offices, and more.
Use it to research firms, explore portfolios, and monitor investor behaviour—all refreshed with:

  • Monthly updates to profile and firm data

  • Weekly refreshes to global funding transactions


Features

  • Search by name – Instantly find any investor, fund, or angel

  • Filter by thesis – Focus by stage, industry, HQ, check size, and more

  • Benchmark – Compare firm rankings and portfolio activity

  • Explore – View full investment histories, co-investors, fundraises, and signals of interest


Inside Each Investor Profile

Section

What It Shows

Overview

Key firm details: description, sectors, funds raised, investment count, lead roles, exits

Rank & Highlights

Monthly performance score + proprietary highlights based on activity and outcomes

Portfolio

Clickable company list—each linked to full Company Signals profiles

Investments

Every individual round backed, with round size and co-investor visibility

Funds

All funds raised, with launch dates and amounts announced

Investor Interest Signals

See which founders or companies the investor has recently engaged with—pulled directly from Specter’s real-time signal engine

Here are further details outlining how several of these sections are interconnected with other parts of the Specter platform, helping you to streamline your workflows even further.

Portfolio

Tap into the Company Signals we have for specific Portfolio companies of interest by clicking on them through the Investor profile:

Investments

You can do exactly the same for individual Investments on the Investor profile, as well as navigate to the profiles of co-investors in the relevant funding round:

Funds

View the Funds section to find the Number of Funds and Total Funds Raised, as well how much was raised and announced as part of each separate fund.

Investor Interest Signals

Use the Investor Interest Signals section to look at signals of interest by fund, for instance:

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