How Funding works

What is tracked

Funding rounds raised by data and AI companies: AI models, AI apps and agents, AI infrastructure, data infrastructure, databases, analytics, developer tools, security and robotics. Not acquisitions, IPOs, grants or funds raising funds.

Where each round comes from

The company announcement, an investor, an SEC Form D filing or a first-tier news outlet. Every round links to its source.

Amounts and valuations

In US dollars, with the announced currency alongside when it was not dollars. Only disclosed amounts; a valuation only when one was reported for that round. Never estimated.

How it stays current

An agent runs every day at 07:45 UTC. It reads funding news feeds and SEC Form D filings, and checks a rotating slice of the companies.fru.dev registry against their own Form D filings and searches the news for a few more registry companies each run, so every registry company is looked at in turn and the list keeps growing with rounds we had not seen. Research passes add earlier rounds (2024 onwards) for registry companies, each from a source page that was fetched and read; these are history, not counted as new this month. What it finds is published marked Unverified until a person checks it against the source. A later report that fills a missing amount or lead investor is written down as a change, never a silent overwrite.

History

Nothing is deleted or rewritten in place. Every round added, every field changed and every round rejected is kept in an append-only log with its date and source, shown at /changes and served at /api/changes. Each round records its source type, when it was first seen, last seen and last checked, and who verified it. A weekly snapshot keeps the counts per sector so growth can be compared over time.

Corrections

Every round and company page has a Suggest a correction link. Suggestions go to a person, who checks them against a source before anything changes.

Disclaimer

Rounds from company announcements, investors, SEC Form D filings and news, found by a daily agent and by research passes that read each source; unverified ones are marked. The list is cumulative: nothing ages out, and it grows as new rounds are announced and older ones are found. Not investment advice. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners. Anonymous usage stats via Google Analytics.