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by SilconValleyVC 4817 days ago
In my experience, if you want reliable info (NOT Crunchbase nor companies who just crawl/spider them and resell it to you, you know who you are right below) use PrivCo, what I use in VC. It's reliable, confirmed with the VC firms and the startup founders. Rarely find anything off (crunchbase if way off as all the HN crew already has figured out).

Just do a search for VC firms and specify what date YOU want their last investment to be...everyone has different critera. If you think if it's been more than 6 months it's a "zombie VC" (I personally disagree, because without getting technical depends on age of the fund...a new 10-year fund invests most of its money in the first 2 years in a nutshell) then pick 6 months on PrivCo VC firm search for last investment. If you think it's 12 months search for 12 months. 18 months, search for that. Don't go by this nonsense list with arbitrary 13 month "cutoff", especially when many of these deals aren't announced - so they do have deals as evidenced from fellow HN crew discussion below missing, so the "no deal in 13 months" is wrong to begin with - you need a dedicated firm like PrivCo (or DowJones VentureSource) to diligently find those deals day after day. Just 1 missing VC deal for a firm throws off the entire "13 month zero deals" input there = output worthless.

Long way of saying search for venture capital firms in my humble opinion using PrivCo and the search criteria: last investment must be within X months, plus must have made investments in the precise sector you want, etc. Then you get the results, export to Excel, and it even has updated names and direct emails of the partners. It's a beauty. Might be others I haven't used too but this is what I personally use: http://www.privco.com/investors

Jake