Built & edited by
Trace Cohen
Co-Founder & GP, Six Point Ventures
3x founder (BrandYourself, Launch.it, SPOT) and angel investor with 65+ investments across pre-seed and seed over 15 years in New York tech. Trace has operated on both sides of the table — founding venture-backed companies and investing through his family office and Six Point Ventures.
What lives here
The Research Blog
Private-company financials, fund performance, and startup benchmarks — how SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic actually make money.
Value Add Pulse
A twice-daily tech & VC news wire with original analyst commentary on every story. See the Pulse masthead for its standards.
Data Dashboards
45+ free interactive trackers: AI capex, IPOs, valuations, layoffs, fund returns — sourced and updated continuously.
How the site is made
Value Add VC runs on a research pipeline built by Trace: data is gathered and cross-checked from primary sources (S-1 filings, earnings reports, Carta and PitchBook data, company announcements), every story passes deterministic quality checks on freshness and sourcing before it publishes, and Trace sets the editorial direction, methodology, and the analysis published as “Trace’s Take.” Every number is expected to trace back to a named source.
Sourcing standards, corrections process, and independence — it’s all written down.