Track where top investors are putting money to work
Ask which companies Sequoia backed in the last quarter, or where tier-1 VCs are investing in your market, and get a verified list you can filter, expand, and export.
An investor's recent activity is one of the strongest signals in private markets. It tells you where conviction is moving, which companies just gained a serious backer, and which markets are heating up before the trend pieces get written.
Canonical treats the investor as a first-class search filter. Name a firm, a set of firms, or simply top-tier VCs, combine that with stage, sector, geography, and a time window, and get a verified list of the companies they have funded.
The problem
Static portfolio pages and investor directories show you a logo wall, not an answerable question. They lag new deals, split one firm across regional funds, and cannot be crossed with the filters that matter to you, so answering something as simple as which fintechs this firm backed in the last six months turns into manual list-stitching.
How Canonical solves it
Search Canonical by investor and get companies, not links. Firm names expand to their fund families automatically, so Sequoia also covers Peak XV and its regional funds, and a phrase like top-tier VCs expands to the major global firms. Layer on stage, sector, geography, size, and a funded-after date to turn a portfolio into an answer: who they backed, at what stage, in which market, and how recently. Funding data is refreshed daily, and find-similar expands any portfolio company into its closest peers.
How it works
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Name the investor, or the tier
Ask for a single firm, several firms, or a generic set like tier-1 VCs. Canonical resolves names to their fund families so regional vehicles are not missed.
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Cross it with your lens
Add stage, sector, geography, size, or a recency window. That turns a raw portfolio into the slice you care about, such as seed-stage AI in Europe since January.
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Expand and monitor
Use find-similar on a portfolio company to map its peers, export the list, or connect the MCP server and schedule a recurring check on an investor's new deals.
Example searches
- “companies Sequoia has invested in during the last 90 days”
- “seed-stage AI startups backed by tier-1 VCs”
- “European fintech companies a16z has backed since January”
Connect the Canonical MCP
Add Canonical to ChatGPT, Claude, or any MCP-compatible assistant and run this search, or schedule it, right in the chat. OAuth handles sign-in, and there are no API keys to manage.
Frequently asked questions
How do I see which companies a VC has invested in recently?
Search Canonical with the investor's name and a time window, for example companies Sequoia backed in the last 90 days. You get a verified list with each company's latest round, and you can narrow it further by stage, sector, geography, or size.
Does it handle fund families like Sequoia and Peak XV?
Yes. Investor names expand to their known fund-family variants, so a search for Sequoia also covers Peak XV and regional funds, and you do not have to know how a firm splits its vehicles.
Can I search across all top-tier investors at once?
Yes. A phrase like tier-1 VCs or top institutional investors expands to a set of major globally recognized firms, so you can ask where the top investors are putting money in a sector without listing every firm yourself.
Can I get a recurring digest of an investor's new deals?
Yes. Connect the Canonical MCP server to your assistant and schedule a recurring search for the investor and window you care about. The funding-this-week guide walks through the scheduled-agent setup.
How fresh is the investor and funding data?
Funding data, including investors on each round, is refreshed daily, so recent deals show up in searches without waiting for a quarterly database update.